- Introduction: The Case for Political History [Byung-Kook Kim]
- Part One: Born in a Crisis
- 1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup [Yong-Sup Han]
- 2. Taming and Tamed by the United States [Taehyun Kim and Chang Jae Baik]
- 3. State Building: The Military Junta’s Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms [Hyung-A Kim]
- Part Two: Politics
- 4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences [Chung-in Moon and Byung-joon Jun]
- 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power [Byung-Kook Kim]
- 6. The Armed Forces [Joo-Hong Kim]
- 7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park [Byung-Kook Kim]
- 8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled [Hyug Baeg Im]
- Part Three: Economy and Society
- 9. The Chaebol [Eun Mee Kim and Gil-Sung Park]
- 10. The Automobile Industry [Nae-Young Lee]
- 11. Pohang Iron & Steel Company [Sang-young Rhyu and Seok-jin Lew]
- 12. The Countryside [Young Jo Lee]
- 13. The Chaeya [Myung-Lim Park]
- Part Four: International Relations
- 14. The Vietnam War: South Korea’s Search for National Security [Min Yong Lee]
- 15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership [Jung-Hoon Lee]
- 16. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974–1979 [Yong-Jick Kim]
- 17. The Search for Deterrence: Park’s Nuclear Option [Sung Gul Hong]
- Part Five: Comparative Perspective
- 18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee [Ezra F. Vogel]
- 19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos [Paul D. Hutchcroft]
- 20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico [Jorge I. Domínguez]
- 21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan [Gregory W. Noble]
- Conclusion: The Post-Park Era [Byung-Kook Kim]
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index of Persons
The Park Chung Hee Era
The Transformation of South Korea
Book Details
PAPERBACK
$24.95 • £18.95 • €22.50
ISBN 9780674072312
Publication: March 2013


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