Using Samir Amin’s Déconnexion Theory to Overcome the “Irrational Dead-end”: An Alternative Perspective on North Korea’s Recent Economic Opening Strategy

• Authors: Clément Théo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

While North Korea embarked on a gradual reform and opening program almost 30 years ago, the levels of economic cooperation with the outside world is still very low. While many scholars tend to explain these low levels by Pyongyang’s alleged “autarkic” or “irrational” policies, we rather argue that a shift of perspective is needed to try to understand the DPRK economic policies better, past and present.

Keywords

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DPRK; North Korea; dependency; Juche; Amin

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego w Krakowie
• Journal: Krakowskie Studia Międzynarodowe
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 131-144

Contributors

author

Clément Théo

• ENS Lyon/ Lyon 2/IEP Lyon
• University of Vienna