In this paper I apply the Rational Actor model to the 1993-1994 North Korean Nuclear Crisis. I begin with two hypotheses: 1) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because of its perception of threat from South Korea and the United States; 2) North Korea attempted nuclear armament because it wanted to use its nuclear program as leverage to obtain economic assistance from the United States. I conduct a diplomatic historical analysis based on the Rational Actor model to determine which was North Korea's primary objective, and conclude that the primary objective of North Korea was obtaining economic concessions, but that threat perception did seem to play a role in the decision to start the nuclear program. In this process, I show that the Rational Actor model was insufficient in the analysis and that it must be complemented by cultural factors, "thickening" the rationality. / Master of Arts

Ce travail de thèse s’attache à caractériser les relations nouées entre les minorités anglophones du Québec et la France, de la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale à la fin de la Guerre froide. Depuis les années 1960, l’historiographie a mis l’accent sur l’importance du fait français dans la construction des liens franco-québécois. Un tel récit, développé dans la foulée de la Révolution tranquille, passe sous silence l’existence de nombreux liens noués entre élites anglo-québécoises et élites françaises. Du côté français, des échanges avec les milieux d’affaires anglophones sont encouragés au nom de l’intensification du commerce franco-canadien. Du côté anglo-québécois, la France incarne un modèle civilisationnel dont la connaissance est partie intégrante d’une culture légitime, nettement distinguée de la culture canadienne-française, reléguée au rang de folklore. À partir de l’étude de trajectoires individuelles comme de réseaux d’influence, cette thèse entend nuancer l’historiographie francophone en mettant à jour les liens de la diplomatie officielle comme ceux de la diplomatie parallèle qui unissent la France au Québec anglais. Elle entend également illustrer, à partir d’un cas d’étude concret, sur quels principes et par quelles modalités se fonde l’influence française dans l’espace atlantique, au XXe siècle. / This thesis aims at describing the relations built between the English-speaking minorities of Quebec and France from the end of World War I to the end of the Cold War. Since the 1960s, historiography has emphasized the significance of the “fait français” in the building of Franco-Quebecois ties. Such a narrative, developed during and after the Quiet Revolution, overlooks the existence of numerous connections between Anglo-Quebec and French elites. On the French side, exchanges with the English-speaking business community were encouraged in the name of the intensification of Franco-Canadian trade. On the Anglo-Quebec side, France embodies a civilizational model which knowledge of is an integral part of a legitimate culture – that is clearly distinguished from a folklore-like French-Canadian culture. Based on the study of individual trajectories as well as networks of influence, I intend to qualify French-speaking historiography by bringing to light the official diplomatic and parallel diplomatic ties that unite France and Englishspeaking Quebec. I also aim at showing on which principles and which actions a French influence is built all over an Atlantic space throughout the 20th century.