Pseudo-academic geopolitical concept and the dilemmas of the Korean Peninsula Cover Image

Pseudo-conceptele geopolitice și dilemele Peninsulei Coreene
Pseudo-academic geopolitical concept and the dilemmas of the Korean Peninsula

Author(s): Isabela Ancuţ
Subject(s): Civil Society, Geopolitics
Published by: INFOSFERA - Revista de studii de securitate si Informații pentru Apărare
Keywords: salami slicing;cabbage leaves;white raven /crow;pink elephant;black swan;gray swan;white swan;red ant;Kim family;Kim Jong-Un;Asia-Pacific;Korean peninsula;North Korea;

Summary/Abstract: Wishing to describe certain geopolitical and geostrategic evolutions and prospectives, more and more analysts are using a series of „pseudo-academic” concepts, hopping that, this way, they could be understand easier. In an informational era, with multiple problems which elicit curiosity and controversy, the desire for knowledge could be fulfilled easier when the scientific terminology is narrowed down to an acceptable level of understanding and the information is adapted in this way. In this context, the political behaviour of the North Korean leader on national and international plan could be explained – and understood – easier if we understand the behavioural mechanism of the „elephant in the room”, „red ant” or of the „swans” - black, grey or white.

  • Issue Year: X/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 58-71
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Romanian
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