May 04, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephan Haggard

Stephan Haggard

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).

Opinion

Communication breakdown: the White House needs to get its story straight

Trump’s defenders tout his unpredictability as an asset, but to date it has yielded very little

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardMay 27, 2018
Opinion

Parsing the Panmunjom Declaration

A historic Kim-Moon agreement represents progress, but the really tough issues all lie ahead

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardApril 29, 2018
Opinion

How Kim Jong Un’s testing moratorium may impact upcoming summits

North Korea's pledge is a big deal, but what will Trump offer in return?

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardApril 22, 2018
Opinion

What Trump’s Syria strike means for North Korea

The action against Assad exposed many of the administration's foreign policy shortcomings

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardApril 15, 2018
Opinion

What John Bolton’s appointment does – and doesn’t – mean for North Korea

Trump cannot decide what his policy towards Pyongyang is going to be

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardMarch 26, 2018
Opinion

How a North Korea-U.S. summit could pan out

Donald Trump must be bold and give Kim Jong Un an offer he can't refuse

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardMarch 10, 2018
Analysis

New Treasury measures: maritime interdictions and the diplomatic off ramp

Friday's sanctions up the pressure on the DPRK, but enforcement remains the perpetual challenge

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardFebruary 25, 2018
Opinion

Mike Pence in Korea: reading the tea leaves

What did the Vice President achieve in a three-day visit to the South?

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardFebruary 11, 2018
Opinion

The overwrought and exuberant: being realistic about inter-Korean talks

Seoul is not about to embrace Kim Jong Un, but it must be clearer about what it hopes to achieve

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardJanuary 30, 2018
Analysis

Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping: What did we learn?

Overshadowed by strikes in Syria, talks yielded little in terms of concrete policy shifts

Stephan HaggardStephan HaggardApril 9, 2017