2022-05-18 §

Tasks due today §

IS410 Major Assignment Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict1 §

• 2022-05-18 IS410 Group 1 & 2 presentation

Log §

• Trump-Kim Nuclear Summit

• For Denuclearization of nuclear weapons of North Korea

  • For Lift of Western sanctions on North Korea

• UNSG agreed it would be a good idea

• Challenges

  • Different perspective about what the negotiation was about
    • NK: thinks its for the denuclearization of the Korean penensula
    • US: think its for the denuclearization of North Korea
    • => Feeling of betrayal when US continues operation in South Korea

• US wanted: declearization as

  • Completely removed
  • Irreversal and monitored by IAA

• NK wanted security gaurantees

  • Economically: to be removed from ‘states sponsoring terrorists’ to remove its sanctions
  • Politically
  • Militarily

• Party strategies §

• Feedback IS410 Major Assignment Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict

  • Didn’t actually analyzed the process of negotiation, but looked at the opportunities and challenges of outcome of negotiation
  • What challenges each party faced when trying to get into negotiation, pre-negotiation
    • Strengths and weaknesses of both parties during the process
    • Bargaining power
    • What strategies each party used to gain what it wanted, despite the challenges they faced
      • Strategy of being tough against a bigger power, strategy to diversify and not rely on one market
      • Soft approach vs hard approach: feining weakness for pity to being defiant
    • EU also faced losses in its decisions
      • EU relies on US, it should diversify, espcially for an ASEAN member when it is chair
  • If its success or failure for both sides
    • Lessons learned about the power dynamic between them and what approach was wrong or right?
    • What should small states do against big states? How small states can influence important group decisions

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