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North Korea and the geopolitics of development / Kevin Gray, Jong-Woon Lee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, c2021Description: 288 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781108843652
  • 9781108826396
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: North Korea and the geopolitics of developmentDDC classification:
  • 23 338.95193 G7781n
Summary: "Kevin Gray and Jong-Woon Lee focus on three geopolitical 'moments' that have been crucial to the shaping of the North Korean system: colonialism, the Cold War, and the rise of China, to demonstrate how broader processes of geopolitical contestation have fundamentally shaped the emergence and subsequent development of the North Korean political economy. They argue that placing the nexus between geopolitics and development at the centre of the analysis helps explain the country's rapid catch-up industrialisation, its subsequent secular decline followed by collapse in the 1990s, and why the reform process has been markedly more conservative compared to other state socialist societies. As such, they draw attention to the specificities of North Korea's experience of late development, but also place it in a broader comparative context by understanding the country not solely through the analytical lens of state socialism but also as an instance of post-colonial national development"-- Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Window on Korea Non-fiction 338.95193 G7781n (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2021 01 Available WOK000064
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Kevin Gray and Jong-Woon Lee focus on three geopolitical 'moments' that have been crucial to the shaping of the North Korean system: colonialism, the Cold War, and the rise of China, to demonstrate how broader processes of geopolitical contestation have fundamentally shaped the emergence and subsequent development of the North Korean political economy. They argue that placing the nexus between geopolitics and development at the centre of the analysis helps explain the country's rapid catch-up industrialisation, its subsequent secular decline followed by collapse in the 1990s, and why the reform process has been markedly more conservative compared to other state socialist societies. As such, they draw attention to the specificities of North Korea's experience of late development, but also place it in a broader comparative context by understanding the country not solely through the analytical lens of state socialism but also as an instance of post-colonial national development"-- Provided by publisher.