NEW AND FORTHCOMING
South Korea at the Crossroads
The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics
Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers
China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism
Scott A. Snyder
Øystein Tunsjø
Øystein Tunsjø surveys the new era of superpowers to argue that the combined effects of the narrowing power gap between China and the United States and the widening power gap between China and any third-ranking power portend a new bipolar system that will differ in crucial ways from that of the last century. Tunsjø predicts that the two superpowers will not be as prone to arms races; that the risk of limited war is likely higher, and that rivalry and conflict between the two will occur in East Asia instead of globally.
In South Korea at the Crossroads, Scott A. Snyder examines the trajectory of fifty years of South Korean foreign policy and offers predictions—and a prescription—for the future. Pairing a historical perspective with a shrewd understanding of today’s political landscape, Snyder contends that South Korea’s best strategy remains investing in a robust alliance with the United States. $35.00 / £27.95 cloth 978-0-231-18548-6 2018 352 pages
A COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS BOOK
$65.00 / £54.95 cloth 978-0-231-17654-5 2018 288 pages
Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella
Sex Trafficking
Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Deterrence After the Cold War
Siddharth Kara
With a new preface by the author
Terence Roehrig
Terence Roehrig provides a comprehensive look at the nuclear umbrella in northeast Asia in the broader context of deterrence theory and U.S. strategy. He examines the role of the nuclear umbrella in Japanese and South Korean defense planning and security calculations, including the likelihood that either will develop its own nuclear weapons. Roehrig argues that the nuclear umbrella is most important as a political signal demonstrating commitment to the defense of allies and as a tool to prevent further nuclear proliferation in the region.
This new paperback edition of Sex Trafficking includes a preface by Kara in which he discusses his findings and updates the statistics that inform his business and economic analysis of contemporary slavery. After fifteen years, Kara has recorded nearly 900 cases of sex trafficking in forty-one countries and has helped advise on numerous legal, tactical, and policy efforts for abolishing modernday slavery across the globe.
$30.00 / £24.95 paper 978-0-231-15799-5
2017 320 pages
$18.95 / £14.95 paper 978-0-231-18033-7
$90.00 / £74.95 cloth 978-0-231-15798-8 2017 272 pages
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