Scott Snyder (Council on Foreign Relations), North Korea's Dual Pursuit of Nuclear and Economic Development

Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

Moderator: Susan Pharr 
Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

(Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute)

Special Series on International Relations of East Asia

Scott Snyder has published extensively on North Korea’s domestic politics and strategic behavior, US-ROK relations, and China-ROK relations, and writes for the blog, “Asia Unbound.” His books include North Korea in Transition: Politics, Economy, and Society (co-editor, Rowman and Littlefield, 2012), Global Korea: South Korea's Contributions to International Security (editor, Council on Foreign Relations, 2012), The U.S.-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges (Lynne Rienner, 2012), China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (Lynne Rienner, 2009), Paved With Good Intentions: The NGO Experience in North Korea (co-editor, Praeger, 2003), and Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior (USIP, 1999). Mr. Snyder was a senior associate in the international relations program of The Asia Foundation, where he founded and directed the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy and served as The Asia Foundation's representative in Korea (2000-2004), and also a senior associate at Pacific Forum CSIS. He has provided advice to NGOs and humanitarian organizations active in North Korea and serves on the advisory council of the National Committee on North Korea and Global Resource Services.