The World's Most Enterprising Country: North Korea's Survival in the Global Economy

这个项目探讨了朝鲜核心的看似矛盾的问题：世界上政治上最孤立的国家在很大程度上通过国际贸易和融入全球经济来维持经济。该项目采用经济地理文献的框架，将利用档案和实地研究来解决朝鲜国家及其公民如何利用东亚及其他地区的贸易网络，以确保他们在敌对的政治环境中的经济生存。这将使分析人士能够评估朝鲜经济一体化对该国发展的影响，以及朝鲜独特的融入全球经济对地区和全球稳定的影响。

This project explores the seeming paradox at the heart of North Korea: The most politically isolated state in the world sustains itself economically in large part by international trade and integration into the global economy. Adopting a framework from the economic geography literature, the project will use archival and field research to address how the North Korean state and its citizens use trade networks in East Asia and beyond to ensure their economic survival in the face of a hostile political environment. This will allow analysts to assess the implications of North Korea's economic integration for the country's development, as well as the effect that North Korea’s unique integration into the global economy has on regional and global stability.