Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Formation of a Pacific Ruling Class and Industrial Transformation in East and Southeast Asia, 1945-1980

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-31579-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 166, 700 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

In Drums of War, Drums of Development, Jim Glassman analyses the geopolitical economy of industrial development in East and Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War era, showing how it was shaped by the collaborative planning of US and Asian elites. Challenging both neo-liberal and neo-Weberian accounts of East Asian development, Glassman offers evidence that the growth of industry (the 'East Asian miracle') was deeply affected by the geopolitics of war and military spending (the 'East Asian massacres'). Thus, while Asian industrial development has been presented as providing models for emulation, Glassman cautions that this industrial dynamism was a product of Pacific ruling class manoeuvring which left a contradictory legacy of rapid growth, death, and ongoing challenges for development and democracy.

Shortlisted for the 2019 Deutscher Memorial Prize

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glassman, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures, Tables and Plates

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: From the Drums of War to the Drums of Development

A Moment in the Cold War with China: 2006

History in the Present Tense

Industrial Transformation and Developmental States

Development, Industrialisation, and Social Struggle

Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Chapters

Part 1 Theoretical Moorings: Geo-political Economy, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Ruling Class

1 Reconstituting Geo-political Economy

Introduction

Geo-political Economy and Class

Geo-political Economy and Transnational Politics

Geo-political Economy and ‘Actually Existing Globalisation’

Methodological Moorings in Geo-political Economy

Strategic-Relational Geo-political Economies of the Conjuncture

2 The US Military-Industrial Complex and the Ruling Class

Introduction

Theorising War and Capitalist Class Transformation

Class Fractions and Specialists in Violence

Theorising the Development of the US Military-Industrial Complex

The Concept of ‘the Ruling Class’

The Ruling Class and the MIC Personified: Van Fleet, Bonny, and Komer

The Ruling Class: A Unity-in-Diversity

From the US MIC to the Pacific Ruling Class

Part 2 Foundations of The Pacific Ruling Class and East Asian Industrialisation: Anticommunism and the Formation of Construction States in East Asia

3 Pacific Ruling Class Formation: The United States, Japan, and China

Introduction: Producing a Pacific Ruling Class

Anticommunism: The Cement of the Pacific Ruling Class Alliance

The United States and Japan: From Occupation to Alliance

The United States, the Two Chinas, and Vietnam

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Japan, and China

Wars and Rumours of Wars: Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East

Conclusion

4 Expansion of the Pacific Complex: The Entry of the South Korean Chaebol

Jim Glassman with Young-Jin Choi

Introduction: Negotiating the MIC in South Korea

Reconceptualising the Korean Developmental State and Chaebol Networks

The Geo-political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime

The Korean Chaebol Enter the Pacific Ruling Class

Military Capitalism and the South Korean Construction State

Conclusion

Part 3 The Pacific Ruling Class and Regional Development: Expansion of the Pacific Ruling Class and Authoritarian, Anticommunist Developmentalism

5 Regional Allies and Differing Developmental Paths within the Complex: Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore

Introduction

Marginalising the ROC Military Elite: The Vietnam War and the Transformation of the Taiwanese Developmental State

Southeast Asian Differences

Conclusion: Different Constructions of National Developmentalism

6 Regional Mosaic: War, Hierarchy, and Pacific Ruling Class Formation

Introduction

Flying Geese or Fighter Squadron? A Geo-political Economy of Regional Hierarchy

Rituals of Diplomacy, Cultures of Difference, and Regional Hierarchy

Anticommunism and Authoritarian Developmentalism in East Asia

From Orientalism to Modernisation to Asian Values

Conclusion

Conclusion: The Drums of Development and Capitalist Globalisation

Reprise

The Philippines: Neo-colonial Redux and Violent Devolution

Thailand: The Revenge of the Royalists

South Korea: Securitising Politics

Taiwan: The Return of the Guomindang, and the DPP

Japan: The Rise of ‘Abenomics’ and Japanese Remilitarisation

The United States: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the ‘Pivot to Asia’

China: Back to Shanghai

Regional Frictions

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Glassman, Ph.D. (1999), University of Minnesota, is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He has authored two previous books on development issues in Asia, Thailand at the Margins (Oxford, 2004), and Bounding the Mekong (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010).