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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I wonder if I may announce the publication of my new book, with thanks, Hazel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hazel Smith, <u>North Korea: Markets and Military Rule</u> (Cambridge University Press). It is available in paperback. Summary and Table of Contents below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Summary koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>In this historically grounded, richly empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea, Hazel Smith evaluates the 'marketization from below' that followed the devastating famine of the early 1990s, estimated to be the cause of nearly one million fatalities. Smith shows how the end of the Cold War in Europe and the famine ushered brought radical social change to all of North Korean society. This major new study analyses how marketization transformed the interests, expectations and values of the entire society, including Party members, the military, women and men, the young and the elderly. Smith shows how the daily life of North Koreans has become alienated from the daily pronouncements of the North Korean government. Challenging stereotypes of twenty-five million North Koreans as mere bystanders in history, Smith argues that North Koreans are 'neither victims nor villains' but active agents of their own destiny.<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Table of Contents<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Introduction: North Korea: politics, economy and society<br>Part I. Jettisoning Caricatures: Understanding History<br>1. Beyond the clichés<br>2. National identity<br>Part II. The Rise and Fall of Kim Il Sungism:<br>3. Colonial occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung<br>4. War-fighting as state-building<br>5. 'Socialism in our own style'<br>6. Sisyphus as economic model<br>7. Social stratification in the workers' state<br>8. Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism<br>Part III. Marketisation and Military Rule:<br>9. Marketisation from below<br>10. Military rule from above<br>11. The marketisation of well-being<br>12. The marketisation of the social structure<br>13. Going nuclear<br>14. Strategic paralysis<br>15. North Koreans as agents of change<br>Bibliography<br>Index.<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Hazel Smith Ph.D FRSA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>New book </span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/east-asian-government-politics-and-policy/north-korea-markets-and-military-rule"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/east-asian-government-politics-and-policy/north-korea-markets-and-military-rule</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Professor and Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>International Institute of Korean Studies UCLAN (IKSU)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>School of Language, Literature and International Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Adelphi Building AB107, University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN), Preston, PR1 7BQ, UK<br>Professor Emeritus, Cranfield University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Professorial Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>+44 (0) 1772 896426 (office)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>+44 (0) 784 174 5233 (mobile)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>http://www.uclan.ac.uk/research/explore/groups/iksu.php<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>