Getting messages through: The cognition of influence with North Korea and East Asia

Abstract

To cause intended effectsand avoid unintended effectsin the fiendishly complex regional environment surrounding the Korean peninsula, United States policymakers are required to understand both what motivates key actors and what type of strategic confrontation they face. To these ends, this report applies core insights from the cognition and neuroscience of decision-making, combined with data from historical and contemporary cases of decision-making such as the past 50 years of Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) military-diplomatic campaigns. Two broad sets of conclusions emerge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1066696

Entities

People

  • Nicholas D. Wright

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Brain
  • Civil War
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cold War
  • Department Of Defense
  • Foreign Policy
  • Geography
  • Human Behavior
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • International Security
  • National Security
  • Personality
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • War

Fields of Study

  • Political science

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