UID:
edocfu_9959235252602883
Format:
1 online resource (327 p.)
ISBN:
979-88-9313-208-3
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1-4696-0486-8
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0-8078-6779-9
Series Statement:
The new cold war history
Content:
In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. Brazinsky contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled South Korea's stunning transformation. On one hand, Americans supported the emergence of a developmental autocracy that spurred economic growth in a
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Security over democracy -- Institution building: civil society -- Institution building: the military -- Toward developmental autocracy -- Development over democracy -- Engaging South Korean intellectuals -- Molding South Korean youth -- Toward democracy.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-6181-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8078-3120-4
Language:
English
