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Klappentext In 1959 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that led to democracy eight years later. This volume examines the transformation as a study in the politics of modernization, contextualizing many historical ambiguities in South Korea's trajectory toward sustainable economic growth.
List of contents
Contents Introduction Part One - Born in a Crisis 1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup 2. Taming and Tamed by the United States 3. State Building: The Military Junta's Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms Part Two - Politics 4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power 6. The Armed Forces 7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park 8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled Part Three - Economy and Society 9. The Chaebol 10. The Automobile Industry 11. Pohang Iron & Steel Company 13. The Chaeya 12. The Countryside Part Four - International Relations 14. The Vietnam War: South Korea's Search for National Security 15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership 16. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974-1979 17. The Search for Deterrence: Park's Nuclear Option Part Five - Comparative Perspective 18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee 19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos 20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico 21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan Conclusion: The Post-Park Era Notes Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index of Persons
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This remarkable book will establish itself as the most significant work on the Park period.
-- Stephan Haggard, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego
Park emerges in these essays as a remarkably skillful politician, and the political dimensions of almost all economic policies were foremost in his calculations...This excellent collection of essays convincingly argues that any examination of South Korea as a model of how a poor country can climb out of poverty needs to factor in the personality of Park Chung Hee and the domestic and international politics of the time.
-- Michael J. Seth The Historian
This significant work on the Park Chung Hee era is composed of 21 chapters by as many Korean specialists...The work provides an enhanced understanding of the political and economic goals of Park Chung Hee (i.e., rich country and strong military) and the forceful means he was willing to use to achieve these goals. The scope and insightfulness of this collection of essays on this critical period in South Korean history make it a must for undergraduate and graduate library collections on Korea. It is strongly recommended for private collections on Korea as well.
-- J. M. Peek Choice
Somehow [this] escaped the notice of much of the broader world...This [collection] is superb, as it offers a very detailed and also fairly comprehensive look at the seminal years for South Korean economic growth...Not everyone will want 650 pp. on economic (and other) policy under South Korean autocracy, but if you do this is the book for you.
-- Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution
