This is the first part of two-part series by Stephan Haggard on prospects for the upcoming North Korea-U.S. summit.
It is increasingly evident that the United States will need to put something on the table to make the upcoming summit work. What might be on offer? Before turning to possible bids, however, it is important to understand how summitry works.
First, the standard summit process involves lengthy prior negotiations to avoid surprises. Yet leaders who rely less on inter-agency process or have a lot of discretion (ie., Kim Jong Un) are more prone to use the summit itself to
This is the first part of two-part series by Stephan Haggard on prospects for the upcoming North Korea-U.S. summit.
It is increasingly evident that the United States will need to put something on the table to make the upcoming summit work. What might be on offer? Before turning to possible bids, however, it is important to understand how summitry works.
Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, director of the Korea-Pacific Program, and distinguished professor of political science at UC San Diego. With Marcus Noland, he is the author of "Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North Korea" (Stanford University Press, 2017).
