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The 2008 Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China take advantage of this golden public relations opportunity to present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964 Tokyo Games and Korea during the 1988 Seoul Games? Or did Beijing in 2008 act more like Berlin in 1936, when Germany took advantage...

Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day. This comprehensive history sheds light on the evolving identities of the two Koreas, explaining the differences between North and South, and the prospects for unification.

The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad, " "rogue, " even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political punditry and often misleading sound bites. Vict...

The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad, " "rogue, " even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political punditry and often misleading sound bites. Vict...

The first in-depth study of the puzzling relationship between Japan and the Republic of Korea and the influence of the United States on it from the Cold War to the present. It draws on recently declassified U.S. documents, internal Korean government documents, and interviews with former policy makers in the United States, Japan, and Korea.

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