Non-traditional security issues in North Korea
The concept of security has undergone significant change. Traditionally thought of in terms of the state-centric, militarily focused, realist discourse, the concept of security has been broadened to include a greater number of potential threats and an increased number of relevant actors. Yet, despite the great changes in security scholarship, the vast majority of studies on North Korea continue to focus primarily on the country's nuclear weapons program, its military, and other traditional secu…
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- Full title :Non-traditional security issues in North Korea / [edited by] Kyung-Ae Park.
Summary
The concept of security has undergone significant change. Traditionally thought of in terms of the state-centric, militarily focused, realist discourse, the concept of security has been broadened to include a greater number of potential threats and an increased number of relevant actors. Yet, despite the great changes in security scholarship, the vast majority of studies on North Korea continue to focus primarily on the country's nuclear weapons program, its military, and other traditional security issues surrounding Pyongyang. While North Korea captures headlines with its aggressive behavior and growing nuclear arsenal, the ground-level threats to average, everyday North Koreans go largely unnoticed. This volume seeks to refocus research on North Korean security from the traditional to largely unexplored non-traditional security (NTS) issues.
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- Publication Date:2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Place of Publication:Honolulu
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013
Notes
Many chapters are based on papers presented at the International Conference on Non-Traditional Security Issues in North Korea, held in Seoul, July 13-14, 2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780824837822, 0824837827
- oclc:ocn871045887
- LC Classification:JC599.K7
- Dewey Decimal:355/.03305193
Table of Contents
Issues of Non-Traditional Security in North Korea. Rethinking National and Human Security in North Korea via Non-Traditional Security Issues ; North Korea's Energy Security : Challenges and Assistance Approaches ; Gender Security in North Korea ; Securitizing Transnational Organized Crime and North Korea's Non-Traditional Security ; Building Food Security in North Korea ; The External Dimension of North Korea's Food Security : Securing Outside Supplies of Food, Fertilizer, and Fuel -- Global Cooperation for Promoting North Korea's Non-Traditional Security. The Responsibility to Protect and Its Limits in North Korea ; International Legal Perspectives on North Korean Refugee Issues ; The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Protecting Pyongyang's Non-Traditional Security ; Toward the Enhancement of Non-Traditional Security in North Korea.
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