Hard Target

Stephan Haggard is the Krause Distinguished Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies at the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego. With Marcus Noland, he is the author of Famine in North Korea (2007), Witness to Transformation (2011), and the blog North Korea: Witness to Transformation.Marcus Noland is Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Senior Fellow at the East–West Center. He is the author of Avoiding the Apocalypse (2000), which won the 2002 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.

• 1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Engagement2. The Political Economy of North Korea: The Paradigmatic Hard Target3. North Korea's External Economic Relations, 1990–20164. Humanitarian Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Food5. The Microeconomics of Engagement6. Negotiating on Nuclear Weapons I: The Rise and Fall of the Six Party Talks (2001-2008) 7. Negotiating on Nuclear Weapons II: Permanent Crisis, 2009-20168. Conclusion: Whither North Korea? Whither Economic Statecraft?

"Hard Target makes an outstanding contribution to the study of the political economy of engagement with North Korea. Analytically rigorous, empirically rich, and far-reaching in its policy implications, this book is a must-read."—Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University "Following the money, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland have carefully crafted an innovative study of the evolving political economy of North Korea. They provide important insights about the effectiveness of sanctions and engagement strategies. Amid an increasing application of sanctions, Hard Target contributes much needed sophistication and nuance to over-simplified debates about dealing with North Korea."—John S. Park, Harvard University "Hard Target is an academic book in the most complimentary sense of the term....[It] is certainly a must-read for scholars and practitioners who claim some stake in the North Korea debate. Readers will appreciate Haggard and Noland's honest, but sobering assessment of the North Korean crisis and the results of sanctions and inducements."—Andrew I. Yeo, Pacific Affairs