Introduction: The Case for political History

PART ONE Born in crisis

1 The May Sixteenth Military Coup = 35

2 Taming and Tamed by the united States = 58

3 State building: The Military Juntas Path = 85

PART TWO Politics

4 Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences = 115

5 The Labyrinth of solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential power = 140

6. The Armed Forces = 168

7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park = 200

8.The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled = 233

PART THREE Economy and society

9 The Chaebol = 265

10 The Automobile Industry = 295

11 Pohang Iron & Steel Company = 322

12 The Countryside = 345

13 The Chaeya = 373

PART FOUR International Relations

14 The Vietnam War: South Koreas Search for National Security = 403

15 Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership = 430

16 The security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 194-1979 = 457

17 The Search for Deterrence: Parks Nuclear Option = 483
PART FIVE Comparative Perspective

18 Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee = 513

19 Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos = 542

20 The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico = 573

21 Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Tiwan = 603

Conclusion: The Post-Park Era = 629

Notes = 651

Acknowledgements = 737

List of Contributors = 739

Index of Persons = 741