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

719 Pages·2018·3.134 MB·English

by  Jim Glassman

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Drums of War, Drums of
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TheFormationof aPacificRulingClass
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
ListofFigures,TablesandPlates xiv
ListofAbbreviations xvi
Introduction:FromtheDrumsofWartotheDrumsofDevelopment 1
AMomentintheColdWarwithChina:2006 1
HistoryinthePresentTense 3
IndustrialTransformationandDevelopmentalStates 5
Development,Industrialisation,andSocialStruggle 12
DrumsofWar,DrumsofDevelopment:TheChapters 14
Part 1
TheoreticalMoorings:Geo-politicalEconomy,the
Military-IndustrialComplex,andtheRulingClass
1 ReconstitutingGeo-politicalEconomy 23
Introduction 24
Geo-politicalEconomyandClass 27
Geo-politicalEconomyandTransnationalPolitics 32
Geo-politicalEconomyand‘ActuallyExistingGlobalisation’ 51
MethodologicalMooringsinGeo-politicalEconomy 60
Strategic-RelationalGeo-politicalEconomiesoftheConjuncture 69
2 TheUSMilitary-IndustrialComplexandtheRulingClass 75
Introduction 76
TheorisingWarandCapitalistClassTransformation 79
ClassFractionsandSpecialistsinViolence 89
TheorisingtheDevelopmentoftheUSMilitary-Industrial
Complex 94
TheConceptof‘theRulingClass’ 110
TheRulingClassandtheMICPersonified:VanFleet,Bonny,and
Komer 125
JamesAlwardVanFleet 128
JohnBruceBonny 138
RobertWilliamKomer 147
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TheRulingClass:AUnity-in-Diversity 159
FromtheUSMICtothePacificRulingClass 162
ClassStructures 163
ColonialDispensations 164
FormsofSocialStruggle 165
Part 2
FoundationsofThePacificRulingClassandEastAsian
Industrialisation:AnticommunismandtheFormationof
ConstructionStatesinEastAsia
3 PacificRulingClassFormation:TheUnitedStates,Japan,and
China 169
Introduction:ProducingaPacificRulingClass 170
Anticommunism:TheCementofthePacificRulingClass
Alliance 173
TheUnitedStatesandJapan:FromOccupationtoAlliance 179
TheUnitedStates,theTwoChinas,andVietnam 202
FatefulTriangle:TheUnitedStates,Japan,andChina 233
WarsandRumoursofWars:Korea,Vietnam,andtheMiddle
East 241
Conclusion 248
4 ExpansionofthePacificComplex:TheEntryoftheSouthKorean
Chaebol 250
withYoung-JinChoi
Introduction:NegotiatingtheMICinSouthKorea 250
ReconceptualisingtheKoreanDevelopmentalStateandChaebol
Networks 254
TheGeo-politicalEconomyoftheParkChungHeeRegime 259
TheParkRegime,1961–3:ConsolidatingtheUS-KoreanRuling
ClassCoalition 262
TheParkRegime,1964–6:NegotiatingthePathtoNormalisation,
War,andIndustrialTransformation 301
TheKoreanChaebolEnterthePacificRulingClass 338
AGeo-politicalEconomyofSteelandElectronics:Benefitsof
RulingClassGlobalisation 338
AGeo-politicalEconomyofTransportationandConstruction:
SpoilsofSpecialProcurement 352
contents ix
MilitaryCapitalismandtheSouthKoreanConstructionState 366
Conclusion 375
Part 3
ThePacificRulingClassandRegionalDevelopment:Expansion
ofthePacificRulingClassandAuthoritarian,Anticommunist
Developmentalism
5 RegionalAlliesandDifferingDevelopmentalPathswithintheComplex:
Taiwan,Thailand,thePhilippines,andSingapore 381
Introduction 381
Space-TimesofDevelopment 384
MarginalisingtheROCMilitaryElite:TheVietnamWarandthe
TransformationoftheTaiwaneseDevelopmentalState 390
JoustingwithJiang 395
PrimingtheROCMilitary-IndustrialPump,Lite 403
SoutheastAsianDifferences 413
AnEmperorwithoutHeavyArtillery:Thailand’sRoleinthe
VietnamWar-EraMIC 414
FromISIto‘Anti-developmentalState’:TheMarginalisationofthe
PhilippinesintheUSMIC 447
AnIslandofIndustry:TheVietnamWarandtheSingaporean
DevelopmentalState 485
Conclusion:DifferentConstructionsofNational
Developmentalism 494
6 RegionalMosaic:War,Hierarchy,andPacificRulingClass
Formation 502
Introduction 502
FlyingGeeseorFighterSquadron?AGeo-politicalEconomyof
RegionalHierarchy 503
RitualsofDiplomacy,CulturesofDifference,andRegional
Hierarchy 511
The1966ManilaConference 513
PacificRulingClassGuănxi 527
EntertainmentRitualsandUsableEssentialisms 535
AnticommunismandAuthoritarianDevelopmentalisminEast
Asia 547
AuthoritarianisminthePacificRulingClass 550
DevelopmentalismandthePacificRulingClass 556
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FromOrientalismtoModernisationtoAsianValues 561
OrganicIntellectualsofthePacificRulingClassI:Walt
Rostow 563
OrganicIntellectualsofthePacificRulingClassII:LeeKuan
Yew 582
Conclusion 600
Conclusion:TheDrumsofDevelopmentandCapitalist
Globalisation 604
Reprise 604
ThePhilippines:Neo-colonialReduxandViolentDevolution 611
Thailand:TheRevengeoftheRoyalists 613
SouthKorea:SecuritisingPolitics 617
Taiwan:TheReturnoftheGuomindang,andtheDPP 619
Japan:TheRiseof‘Abenomics’andJapaneseRemilitarisation 620
TheUnitedStates:Fromthe‘WaronTerror’tothe‘Pivotto
Asia’ 622
China:BacktoShanghai 623
RegionalFrictions 624
Conclusion 625
Bibliography 629
Index 662