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External Inputs and North Korea's Confrontation Policy: A Case Study of Linkage Politics

In an inquiry into national behavior, students of international relations treat national data as independent variables. Students of comparative politics treat them as dependent variables in an attempt to compute foreign policy outputs. There is reason to believe that international and comparative studies can be incorporated into a system of linkage politics. This study employs the framework of "linkage politics" of James N. Rosenau in an attempt to investigate the North Korean confrontation policy from 1953 to 1970. The basic assumption upon which this research operates is that the foreign policy of the North Korea has been a function of "fused linkages" between the nation's international environment and national conditions. "Fused linkage" is defined as a phenomenon by which certain national outputs and environmental inputs reciprocate in a continuous cycle. Thus the fused linkage case for North Korea's confrontation is defined as "circular confrontation." Based on Rosenau's proposed linkage framework, this study presents its own analytical framework. The major linkage groups are conceived of "exogenous" and "endogenous" conditions. Both of these conditions are divided into "constants" and "variables" and are treated as such. Each of these conditions was in turn analyzed with reference to relevant referents. Throughout the study particular attention is given to linkage processes between the two conditions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc500895
Date05 1900
CreatorsKim, Yu-Nam, 1939-
ContributorsBuell, Erwin C., Detrick, Robert, Thames, H. Stanley, Huey, Mary Evelyn Blagg
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Format3, xi, 293 leaves: ill., Text
CoverageNorth Korea
RightsPublic, Kim, Yu-Nam, 1939-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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