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Suh, Jae-Jung. "Caught Between Behavior and Identity: Nuclear Dilemma between North Korea and the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211348_index.html>

Suh, J. , 2007-08-30 "Caught Between Behavior and Identity: Nuclear Dilemma between North Korea and the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211348_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: At the heart of the security dilemma are two types of interactivity: the interactive nature of security action and reaction between two concerned parties; and the malicious interactivity between behavioral consequences and identity effects of security measures. While most scholars recognize the vicious cycle of security action and reaction as constituting the security dilemma, they fail to understand that the vicious cycle is created only when there is a malign interactivity between behavioral consequences and identity effects of security measures. In general terms, state actors transform uncertainty in international politics into a set of ordered possibilities by choosing among a repertoire of social devices, such as social rules, norms, identities, or institutions, in order to devise simple rules of behavior that enable them to make decision with regard to the future. While the transformation process can take a multitude of forms, reflecting the diversity in the social devices from which they can choose, the security dilemma is constituted by the type of interactions where antagonistic identity replaces or reduces uncertainty about behavior in such a way as to exacerbate enmity. Only when social interactions between countries are characterized by 1) truncated understanding of dynamic interactions, 2) antagonistic identity, and 3) identity blaming, do social effects and behavioral consequences multiply each other in a malign way, constituting the security dilemma. This paper analyzes the North Korean nuclear crisis as an empirical case that reveals the dimension of the security dilemma logic overlooked in IR theories and that illuminates the negative feedback between behavior and identity constituting the core mechanism of the security dilemma.

The Social Construction of Intercultural Identity of being Korean in the United States: An analysis of the influence of communicative interactions on identities of Korean-American students.

Analogies and the Security Dilemma: How the Social Construction of Antagonistic Relations between Washington and Pyongyang Has Turned US-North Korean Interaction in Self-Replicating Mutual Hostility

The 1994 Nuclear Crisis: A Comparative Study of Structural Realist and Constructivist Approaches to Understanding the US-North Korean Security Dilemma