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| List of Figures and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Views of the Regime | |
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| Diverse Institutional Views | |
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| Toward a New Model | |
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| The Stakes | |
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| Road Map | |
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| Post-totalitarian Institutionalism | |
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| Existing Models of North Korean Politics | |
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| The Emergence of Post-totalitarian Institutionalism | |
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| Post-totalitarian Politics | |
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| Research Design | |
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| Historical Context | |
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| Foundations of the Founding | |
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| Kim II Sung and Totalitarianism, 1956-1990 | |
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| The Transition Period, 1991-1998 | |
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| Post-totalitarian Institutionalism, 1998-Present | |
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| North Korea's Political Institutions | |
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| The Korean Workers' Party | |
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| The Korean People's Army | |
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| The Cabinet | |
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| The Security Apparatus | |
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| Supreme People's Assembly | |
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| Subnational Governments and the Judiciary | |
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| Institutional Jostling for Agenda Control, 1998-2001 | |
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| Taepodong-1 Launch | |
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| The Kumchang-ri Suspected Nuclear Facility | |
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| OPlan 5027 | |
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| The Second Chollima March | |
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| Uncoordinated Institutions | |
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| Missile Negotiations and the Inter-Korean Summit | |
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| Segmenting Policy and Issue Linkages, 2001-2006 | |
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| Toward Economic Reform | |
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| Issue Linkages: Inter-Korean and U.S. Policy | |
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| Pyongyang Reacts to New U.S. Policy | |
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| Regime Change Short List Concern Closes Ranks | |
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| Linking and Delinking Issue Areas | |
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| End of the Agreed Framework and the Second Nuclear Crisis | |
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| Inter-Korean Relations: A Separate Track? | |
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| Nuclear Declarations | |
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| Diplomatic Impasse, Mutual Pressure | |
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| "The Atmosphere Has Improved"-for a Day | |
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| LWR Demands and Banco Delta Asia | |
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| Cross-Border Cooperation: The Only Game in Town | |
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| Bureaucratic Cracks on "Sanctions" and Missile Tests | |
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| Hitting Rock Bottom: The Nuclear Test | |
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| Policy Reversals, 2006-2008 | |
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| Return to Six-Party Talks | |
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| Cabinet Economic Reformer Replaced with Economic Reformer | |
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| Chris Hill in Pyongyang | |
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| Presidential Turnover in South Korea | |
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| Refocusing on the United States | |
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| Continuity Amid Change: The North Korean Economy | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| North Korea's Post-totalitarian Institutionalism | |
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| An Evolved Polity | |
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| Decision Making | |
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| Importance of the Internal Mechanism | |
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| North Korea, Comparative Politics, and Downstream Consequences | |
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| North Korea's Future | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |