The Change Toward Cooperation in the George W. Bush Administration's Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Toward North Korea

This book offers a case study in foreign policy change. It examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea's first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former confrontational approach in favor of a more accommodating line. Existing explanations of this course reversal draw on the security implic...