Conflict between International Food Aid and Non-proliferation Regimes: Focusing on Aid to North Korea through Regime Complex
Conflict between International Food Aid and Non-proliferation Regimes:
Focusing on Aid to North Korea through Regime Complex
Keun-Woo Kim
 
ABSTRACT: This study analyses how the international food aid regime conflicts with the non-proliferation norms in light of the sanctions against North Korea owing to its continued nuclear tests. Meanwhile, with the international community showing signs of aid fatigue from the aid extended to developing countries, there have been growing calls for a shift from short-term emergency relief to long-term development aid. This study recognises development aid as the norm of the international food aid regime and investigates whether the economic sanctions on North Korea due to its nuclear tests have limited development aid through the non-proliferation regime. Traditionally, regime analysis has focused on explaining the establishment, development, and effectiveness of a single regime. However, it has recently been suggested that regime complex—in which different regimes compete or exert influence—is more important than any single regime. It exerts such influence using the regime complex theory in terms of overlapping regimes, forum shopping, and regime complex discontinuity. It maintains that only emergency relief was maintained, while development aid was restricted, in the regime adjustment process in North Korea, as the norms of the international food aid regime collided with those of the non-proliferation regime.

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