North Korea - Markets and Military Rule

Informationen zum Autor Hazel Smith is Director of the International Institute of Korean Studies at the University of Central Lancashire. Klappentext This is a historically founded, empirical study of social and economic transformation wrought by 'marketisation from below' in North Korea. Zusammenfassung In this historically grounded! empirical study of social and economic transformation in North Korea! Hazel Smith evaluates North Korean society after the 'marketisation from below' that followed the famine of the early 1990s! providing readers with a fresh! insightful and broad-ranging overview of the country today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: North Korea: politics, economy and society; Part I. Jettisoning Caricatures: Understanding History: 1. Beyond the clichés; 2. National identity; Part II. The Rise and Fall of Kim Il Sungism: 3. Colonial occupation and the rise of Kim Il Sung; 4. War-fighting as state-building; 5. 'Socialism in our own style'; 6. Sisyphus as economic model; 7. Social stratification in the workers' state; 8. Famine and the end of Kim Il Sungism; Part III. Marketisation and Military Rule: 9. Marketisation from below; 10. Military rule from above; 11. The marketisation of well-being; 12. The marketisation of the social structure; 13. Going nuclear; 14. Strategic paralysis; 15. North Koreans as agents of change; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Hazel Smith, Hazel (University of Central Lancashire Smith, Professor Hazel (University of Warwick Univ Smith, Smith Hazel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2015
• EAN: 9780521897785
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89778-5
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Politics & government, Asian History, Warfare and defence, North Korea, Political structure and processes