The Rational Origin of Irrational Instability: Rising American Populism and its Political Ramification in Northeast Asia

Sunil Kim

East Asian Policy (EAP), 2018, vol. 10, issue 03, 19-31

Abstract: This study discusses the rise of populism in the United States and its political ramification in the Northeast Asian region, surrounding the recent North Korean nuclear crisis. Rather than simply blaming the irrational behaviours of political leaders, this study argues that their different political preferences originating from their background as well as the demographic nature of their core constituency are the fundamental sources of instability in the region. Unlike the conventional understanding, this study claims that the key problem that has been driving countries in the region towards the nuclear debacle—as well as the sudden volte-face—is US political leader’s very rationality, unbounded by ideological or partisan traditions, rather than his irrational, or oft-regarded as deranged, personality.

Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1793930518000247
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:eapxxx:v:10:y:2018:i:03:n:s1793930518000247

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S1793930518000247

Access Statistics for this article

East Asian Policy (EAP) is currently edited by Jessica Loon

More articles in East Asian Policy (EAP) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().