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Savage Century
Back to Barbarism
Thérèse Delpech
Translated by George Holoch
Failed Diplomacy
The Tragic Story of How
North Korea Got the Bomb
Charles L. Pritchard
At the dawn of the
twentieth century,
observers heralded a new
era of social progress,
seemingly limitless
technological advances,
and world peace. But
within only a few years,
the world was perched on
the brink of war, revolution,
and human misery on an
unprecedented scale. Is
it possible that today, in
the early twenty-first century, we are on the verge of
similar, tumultuous times?
Contents:
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part 1: The Telescope
1 Political Responsibility
2 The Pleasure Principle
3 Ensavagement
4 The Corruption of Principles
Part 2: 1905
5 Portents
6 The Birth of Modernity
7 An Unforeseeable Actor
8 Against the Grain
Part 3: The World in 2025
9 Foresight and Memory
10 Three Bets for the Future
11 Open Questions
Part 4: Back in 2005
12 The Scene in 2005
13 Russia As It Is
14 The Two Chinas
15 North Korean Blackmail
16 The Choice of the Peoples
17 The Unity of the Western Camp
18 Rethinking Nuclear Weapons
Epilogue
2007, 336 pages, 6 x 9”
0-87003-233-X / 978-0-87003-233-2
cloth $33.95 CRO
North Korea’s development
of nuclear weapons
raises fears of nuclear
war on the peninsula
and the specter of
terrorists gaining access
to weapons of mass
destruction. It also
represents a dangerous
and disturbing breakdown
in U.S. foreign policy.
Failed Diplomacy offers
an insider’s view of what went wrong and allowed
this isolated nation – a charter member of the Axis
of Evil – to develop nuclear weapons.
Charles L. “Jack” Pritchard was intimately involved
in developing America’s North Korea policy under
Presidents Clinton and Bush. Here, he offers an
authoritative analysis of recent developments on
the Korean peninsula and reveals how the Bush
administration’s mistakes damaged the prospects of
controlling nuclear proliferation. Although multilateral
negotiations continue, Pritchard proclaims the Six-
Party Talks as a failure.
Hard-hitting and insightful, Failed Diplomacy offers
a stinging critique of the Bush administration’s
manner and policy in dealing with North Korea. More
hopefully, it suggests what can be learned from
missed opportunities.
2007 240 pages, 6 x 9”
0-8157-7200-9 / 978-0-8157-7200-2
cloth $32.95 CRO
Going Critical
The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis
Joel S. Wit, Daniel B. Poneman,
and Robert L. Gallucci
2004, 448 pages, 6 x 9”
0-8157-9386-3 / 978-0-8157-9386-1
cloth $39.95 CRO
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