1st Edition

Korea's Developmental Alliance State, capital and the politics of rapid development

By David Hundt Copyright 2009
170 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

South Korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperity. Korea’s achievement of moving from one of the world’s poorest countries as recently as the early 1960s to the ranks of the ten biggest economies only four decades later has rightly attracted interest from policymakers and scholars alike. This book identifies the factors that shaped relations between... Read more

 Introduction: The developmental alliance and Korean Development  1. Korea in the Political Economy Literature  2. The Dynamics of the Developmental Alliance  3. Priming for Takeoff  4. Forming the Developmental Alliance  5. The Developmental Alliance in Flux  6. Re-aligning the Alliance  7. The Alliance in Retrospect

Biography

David Hundt is Lecturer in International Relations at Deakin University, Australia.

"It offers a descriptive introduction to an important issue in Korean/East Asia politics/political economy." - Richard Westra, Pukyong National University, Pusan South Korea; Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40 No. 4 (2010)