Kenneth Gause

Kenneth Gause is the director of the International Affairs Group, a part of CNA's Center for Strategic Studies. He also oversees the Foreign Leadership Studies Program. Gause’s work on foreign leadership dates back to the early 1980s with his work on the Soviet Union. He has published numerous articles on the North Korean leadership for such publications as Korean Journal for Defense Analysis and Jane’s Intelligence Review. Gause is the author of a recently published book entitled North Korea Under Kim Chong-il: Policy, Politics, and Prospects for Change and the upcoming book Coercion, Control, Surveillance, and Punishment: A Guide to North Korea’s Internal Security Agencies.

Selected Publications in the Open Source on North Korea

• Coercion, Control, Surveillance, and Punishment: A Guide to North Korea’s Internal Security Agencies (Washington, DC: The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, forthcoming).
• “North Korea’s Political System in the Transition Era: The Role and Influence of the Party Apparatus,” in Scott Snyder and Kyung-Ae Park, eds., North Korea in Transition (Lanam, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, forthcoming).
• North Korea Under Kim Chong-il: Power, Politics, and Prospects for Change (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers, 2011).
• “A Maritime Perspective of North Korean WMD,” Paper presented at the 4th Annual Conference Co-Sponsored by the Center for Naval Analyses and Korea Institute for Maritime Strategy (October 2010).
• “Future North Korean Crises: Scenarios and Sign Posts,” A paper presented at a Brookings Institution-Korean Institute for Defense Analysis Conference (June 2009).
• “Managing Future North Korean Crises: Scenarios and Signposts,” Paper presented at Conference in Seoul hosted by the Institute for National Security Studies (October 2008).
• “Can The North Korean Regime Survive Kim Chong-Il?” Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, Vol. 20, No. 2 (June 2008).
• North Korean Civil-Military Relations: Military First Policy to a Point. (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, September 2006).
• “Sino-North Korean Military Relations: Comrades-in-Arms Forever?” China Military Update (May 2004).
• The North Korean Leadership: System Dynamics and Fault Lines. Institute for Defense Analysis (chapter in larger 2004 study on North Korean elites done for OSD Policy).
• The North Korean Leadership: Evolving Regime Dynamics in the Kim Chong-il Era. Project Asia Occasional Paper, CNA Corporation (September 2003).
• “The North Korean Military: Status Over Substance.” SP Military Yearbook. New Delhi, India (2001).