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100 1 _aJACKSON Van
245 _aThe rebalance, entrapment fear, and collapsism:
_bthe origins of Obama's North Korea policy/
_cVan Jackson
260 _c2019
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aUSA
_xNORTH KOREA
650 _aOBAMA
650 _aUS FOREIGN POLICY
773 _aAsian Perspective Vol.43, No. 4, Fall 2019, pp.593-619 (11)
856 _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/742540?post_id=noID
_zClick link for online access
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