East Asia's capitalist growth has generated many interesting questions concerning Third World development. While radical and critical theories tend to ignore East Asia, modernization and neoclassical economic theories offer ahistorical accounts of what has actually happened. Focusing on South Korea's rapid rise in the world-system, this study seeks to address many issues surrounding East Asian development. Three successful export industries have been chosen for a detailed examination of the dialectical interaction between the state and the world-system forces. South Korea's economic success was generally attributed to its well-orchestrated policy of following the product cycle in the international division of labor. The Korean state has effectively mastered the flow of the product cycle in the three industries, but failed to do so in the machinery and chemical sectors. Its strategy of following the product cycle was mediated by the Northeast Asian political economic system, in which Japan played a central role. Since Korea's success is historically as well as regionally specific, its model of development may not be readily adaptable for the other developing countries trying to emulate the country. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-12, Section: A, page: 3892. / Major Professor: Richard Rubinson. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1988.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77884 |
| Contributors | Kim, Jong-il., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 298 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
Page generated in 0.0025 seconds