| ID | 076773 |
| Title Proper | Good cop/bad cop as a model for nonproliferation diplomacy toward North Korea and Iran |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Martin, Curtis H |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Scholarly and popular literature in the recent past has framed nonproliferation diplomacy toward both Iran and North Korea as an example of "good cop/bad cop," a social-psychological strategy borrowed from law enforcement to describe a process for forcing a confession by subjecting a target to stressful emotional contrast. This article examines those two cases, roughly covering the period since 2003, when the most recent attempts to deal with the Iranian and North Korean proliferation threats began, in light of criteria for employment of the good cop/bad cop strategy. There is some evidence that within the framework of the six-party talks with North Korea and within the framework of the EU-3-U.S. diplomacy toward Iran, the players seeking nonproliferation have adopted good cop/bad cop roles to that end. The article concludes, however, that while there are similarities to the interrogation room technique, the complexity of the international political environment as compared to the interrogation room has prevented the states involved from successfully adopting or effectively exploiting good and bad cop roles. Substantial and exploitable differences of interest among them, and the availability of alternative "escape routes" for the target state, raise serious questions about the applicability of the good cop/bad cop strategy to these two nonproliferation cases, and even about its applicability in future nonproliferation challenges |
| `In' analytical Note | Nonproliferation Review Vol. 14, No.1; Mar 2007: p61-88 |
| Journal Source | Nonproliferation Review Vol. 14, No.1; Mar 2007: p61-88 |
| Key Words | Nuclear Nonproliferation ; North Korea ; Iran ; Good Cop/Bad cop |