TY  - BOOK
AU  - JACKSON Van
TI  - The rebalance, entrapment fear, and collapsism: the origins of Obama's North Korea policy
PY  - 2019///
KW  - USA
KW  - NORTH KOREA
KW  - OBAMA
KW  - US FOREIGN POLICY
N2  - This article proposes that the Obama-era policy of "strategic patience" had little to do with North Korea per se, and instead derived primarily from the intersection of three different factors: the prioritizations necessary as part of the US "rebalance to Asia" strategy; fear that South Korean aggression would pull the United States into an unwanted war in Korea; and a prevailing belief among many policymakers that the North Korean regime would eventually collapse under the pressures of its own contradictions. This combination of priorities and beliefs led the Obama administration to treat the North Korean nuclear issue seriously but not urgently, resorting to actions incommensurate with the nature of the problem
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742540?post_id=noID
ER  -