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



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Autore: Brazinsky Gregg Visualizza persona
Titolo: Nation building in South Korea [[electronic resource] ] : Koreans, Americans, and the making of a democracy / / Gregg Brazinsky Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
Disciplina: 327.7305195
Soggetto topico: Democracy - Korea - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign relations Korea
Korea Foreign relations United States
Korea (South) Politics and government
Korea (South) Economic conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Nation building in South Korea  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0486-8
0-8078-6779-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456367903321
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Serie: New Cold War history.