The 2015 Seiji Naya Asia-Pacific Lecture

MARCUS NOLAND
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Washington, D.C.

North Korea: Sanctions, Inducements, and Transitional Paths

Poor, belligerent, and repressive, North Korea has confounded predictions of its collapse. Can the regime, now in the third generation of hereditary leadership, continue to manage the internal and external stresses that it confronts? What, if anything, can the outside world do to promote a trajectory that addresses the country’s manifest humanitarian needs, and encourages less repressive internal practices and less fraught external relations?

Marcus Noland has a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He was previously a senior economist at Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the United States.  He is currently Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a senior fellow at the East-West Center.  Noland is the author of Korea after Kim Jong-il(2004), Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas (2000), Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (2011), and Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (2007).  His latest book is Confronting the Curse: The Economics and Geopolitics of Natural Resource Governance (2014).

The Seiji Naya Asia-Pacific Lecture Series was established in honor of Seiji Naya, who is professor emeritus and former chair of the UH-Mānoa Dept. of Economics. He served as chief economist of the Asian Development Bank, program director at the East-West Center, and Direc­tor of the Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.  Professor Naya is widely recognized for his contributions to understanding development issues in Southeast Asia. 

Sponsored by

UH-Mānoa Department of Economics

UH Center for Korean Studies

East-West Center