McEachern, Patrick (2010). Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. 320 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-15322-5

Abstract

This review provides a critical assessment of McEachern's book Inside the Red Box: North Korea's Post-totalitarian Politics. Special focus is paid to McEachern's "new model" and his core arguments concerning the post-totalitarian nature of current North Korean regime.

Keywords

• regime change
• North Korea
• Kim Chŏng-il
• totalitarianism
• post-totalitarianism
• regime conceptualization
• regime-type classification
• comparative politics