POLS 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 26: Totalitarianism, Nuclear Blackmail, Irredeemable
8 Oct 2017
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The nature of a conflict can only be understood in the context of its unique environment. States to south africa, have meanwhile been replaced by political orders that promote racial equality, at least at the formal, institutional level. The conflict in korea: for the last half a century the korean peninsula has been divided between a communist north and a capitalist south, each viewing the other as its ideological arch-rival. Historical background: japan occupied korea in the 1890s and formally annexed the country in 1910. At the end of wwii the two dominant victorious countries, the us and the ussr dismantled the defeated japanese colonial empire. In this context they divided the korean peninsula into two parts along the 88th parallel. In 92 north korea agreed to have its nuclear facility inspected by the. Confrontation and engagement: two approaches to conflict: one of the most difficult an important tasks is figuring out how to deal with.
