Korean Reunification: Alternative Pathways

Political scientist Michael Haas brings together essays by seven distinguished authors with different ideas about how North and South Korea might again become a single, unified state. The book presents a history of Korea and pathways that may be followed to bring the two Koreas together in a confederation or federation despite different economic and ideological systems-and new material identifies progress already achieved toward the goal of reunification. Chapters deal with the following approaches that may be used in other cases of divided peoples who could eventually unify under a single government: - Neutralization - concluding a peace treaty and dismantling armies - Functionalism - nonpolitical cross-border economic and social contact - Nonviolence - the tradition of Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. - Mediation - how third parties can facilitate agreements between North & South - Negotiation - diplomacy involving professionals and nonprofessionals In addition, one chapter examines the feasibility of reunification from a political and military perspective. The final chapter assesses progress over the past 25 years and prospects for the future.