TY - BOOK AU - COOK Richard J TI - Bargaining interactions reconsidered: the Korean Peninsula nuclear crisis viewed through the lens of hierarchy PY - 2021/// KW - KOREAN PENINSULA KW - NUCLEAR CRISIS N2 - This paper identifies two significant phenomena regarding these security arrangements, drawing upon why the USA has maintained strong social contract activity with the ROK, whereas the PRC-DPRK social contract activity has only recently been reinvigorated. Social contract activity is defined as the degree of commitment to maintaining the hierarchical relationship manifested in a social contract, ranging from active to inactive UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2019.1651759 ER -