CAS IR 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dissolution Of The Soviet Union, Six-Party Talks, Most Favoured Nation

• School: Boston University
• Department: International Relations
• Course: CAS IR 365
• Professor: Min Ye

Document Summary

Somalia and multilateral intervention: with the end of the cold war, the us set a new precedent in multilateral intervention in somalia out of humanitarian consideration, china reluctantly voted yes, but qualified it as a unique case . Clinton administration: from threats of sanction to wto accession, clinton"s campaign: butchers in beijing , clinton"s early tenure: threat of mfn rejection each year, in your-face approach on human rights in china. Economic sanction is simply the wrong tool to political liberalization in china (p. 181: discord in us-japan alliance: economic friction, yin he incident 1993: suspected sale to iran, npt: china signed in 1992. North korea crisis: 1991 soviet collapse; 1992 china-south korea normalization, 1993-4: first nuclear crisis, 1994 agreed framework, china"s role: nuanced--but ultimately helpful--role , 2002 nuclear crisis, 2003 six party talks. Impact on us security policy: prioritize security in asia strategy, pentagon initiative to strengthen us-japan alliance in 1994-5, the nye initiative -- increasing contribution and reciprocity of japan.