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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780981403321

Autore

Brazinsky Gregg

Titolo

Nation building in South Korea [[electronic resource] ] : Koreans, Americans, and the making of a democracy / / Gregg Brazinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0486-8

0-8078-6779-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

The new cold war history

Disciplina

327.7305195

Soggetti

Democracy - Korea - History - 20th century

United States Foreign relations Korea

Korea Foreign relations United States

Korea (South) Politics and government

Korea (South) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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