Getting to yes in Korea / Walter C. Clemens, Jr. ; with a foreword by Bill Richardson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Governor Bill Richardson -- 1. How Korea Became Critical -- A cockpit of war -- A failing rogue state equipped with nuclear arms -- North Korea as a possible player in a zone of peace and commerce -- Axioms for foreign policy -- 2. How Korea Became Korea -- A proud nation -- Emergence in the shadow of China -- Unique forms of Confucianism -- Literacy -- Coping with complexity -- 3. How Korea Became Japan -- A weak government and insular culture subjugated by an expansionist Japan while America watched and did nothing -- U.S. commitments to national self-determination excluding Korea and other smaller nations -- 4. How One Korea Became Two -- Rooseveltian Realpolitik -- Sacrificing Korea and the Baltics to appease Stalin and defeat the Axis -- Origins of the thirty-eighth parallel -- 5. How North Korea Got the Bomb -- North Korea's demands for nuclear science, power, and weaponry -- Comradely differences and North Korea's commitment to self-reliance and the "military first" -- 6. How Kissinger and Zhou Enlai Got to Yes -- Lessons from cold war detentes -- GRIT -- Mutual gain and openness -- 7. How to Get to Yes across Cultures -- High-context versus low-context diplomacy -- The significance of distinct cultures of diplomacy -- 8. How Carter and Clinton Got Closer to Yes with Pyongyang -- Washington using both carrots and sticks, Track 1 and Track 2 diplomacy -- Americans discovering rational and sentient humans in Pyongyang -- 9. How Bush and Kim Jong II Got to Deadlock -- Bush's essentialist outlook, using neither sticks nor carrots -- Bush and Rice dragging their heels and then facing a nuclear-armed DPRK -- 10. How Ideas and Free Will Can Trump Hard Power and Fortuna -- Material forces that condition but do not determine what happens -- The roles of timing and coincidence -- Black swans -- Individual leaders who prevail over forces and fortuna -- 11. How to Avoid the Worst and Foster Better Futures -- Alternative futures -- The spectrum from global war to a security system for Northeast Asia -- Lessons for diplomacy -- 12. How Should Obama Deal with Authoritarians? -- Dangers of summitry -- Utility of looking for mutual gain even with dictators -- Letting professionals do the work -- Experiences with the USSR and Libya -- Grand bargains versus limited accords -- 13. How to Get to Yes in Korea? -- Challenges and policy dilemmas -- Human rights and/or arms control? -- Trust and/or arms control? -- How to fathom "outliers"? -- What paradigms for coping with uncertainty? -- What could it mean to "get to yes" in Korea? -- From negative to positive peace?