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The six-party talks and the North Korean nuclear weapons programme: negotiation analysis

Thesis title in Czech:	The six-party talks and the North Korean nuclear weapons programme: negotiation analysis
Thesis title in English:	The six-party talks and the North Korean nuclear weapons programme: negotiation analysis
English key words:	Six-Party Talks, North Korea, USA, China, South Korea, Russia, Japan, nuclear weap-ons, negotiations, negotiation analysis
Academic year of topic announcement:	2015/2016
Thesis type:	diploma thesis
Thesis language:	angličtina
Department:	Department of International Relations (23-KMV)
Supervisor:	doc. Michal Parízek, Ph.D.
Author:	hidden - assigned by the advisor
Date of registration:	23.06.2016
Date of assignment:	30.09.2016
Date and time of defence:	11.09.2017 08:00
Venue of defence:	Jinonice - U Kříže 8, J3093, Jinonice - místn. č. 3093
Date of electronic submission:	30.07.2017
Date of proceeded defence:	11.09.2017
Opponents:	doc. PhDr. Ondřej Ditrych, M.Phil., Ph.D.



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Preliminary scope of work in English

This thesis is aimed at analysing the Six-Party Talks and why they failed to generate a viable solution to the North Korean nuclear weapons programme. Employing theoretical approaches of negotiation analysis, this analysis is conducted under the presumption that a zone of possible agreement did not exist due to the involved parties’ irreconcila-ble positions. Two hypotheses addressing factors that are exogenous to the negotiations such as the parties’ underlying interests and North Korean domestic politics are ex-plored so as to find an explanation for the negotiators’ pursuits within the Six-Party Talks. The findings reveal that on the one hand, North Korea can hardly dissociate from its nuclear weapons programme due to the gains in international leverage and for ideo-logical reasons. On the other hand, the other five parties are each concerned with their own priorities revolving around the Korean Peninsula. These underlying interests are related to enhancement and maintenance of influence in the region, Korean unification, economic expansion or solving other bilateral issues with the DPRK. Thus, cooperation, commitment and common agreement in the multilateral setting of the Six-Party Talks is severely limited.