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(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016). 464 pp. $39.95. Cloth. Is lasting diplomatic cooperation between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea [dprk] possible? Walter C. Clemens Jr., an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Boston University, suggests it is if leaders in Pyongyang and Washington reconsider the very purpose of engagement. Beyond zero sum triumphs and outrage at the sins of its ideological opponent, Clemens calls for new u.s. efforts to think of “shared concerns as interacting within a circle that could shrink or expand” (p. 351). The essential precursor to cooperation in Korea, the author suggests, is to consider how all sides can “grow the circle of what is negotiable” (p. 352). The United States and the dprk, Clemens makes clear, can move towards greater engagement if they commit themselves to a step-by-step process of Graduated Reciprocity in Tension-Reduction (grit). He recognizes, however, that action-for-action diplomacy will yield no quick transformation of u.s.-dprk relations. The immense complexities of global politics in Northeast Asia, and dilemmas over how to respond to North Korea’s continuing nuclear and missile tests, defy any such earnest idealism. Still,
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Apr 8, 2017
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