Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s. North Korea has experienced severe economic deterioration and increasing international isolation, while South Korea has undergone democratization and witnessed the emergence of a vibrant consumer culture. Paradoxically, this growing gap in ideologies and material standards has led to improved relations between the two countries. Why has this counterintuitive development occurred? Is North Korea really a threat, and if so, for whom? This book provides a substantive, accessible, and timely examination of the complex and compelling histories of the two Koreas. |
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... democracy and terrorism to nationalism and globalization, the series challenges assumptions about the past and the ... Democracy: Algeria since 1989 Mark LeVine, Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine since 1989 Helena Pohlandt-McCormick ...
... democracy and terrorism to nationalism and globalization, the series challenges assumptions about the past and the ... Democracy: Algeria since 1989 Mark LeVine, Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine since 1989 Helena Pohlandt-McCormick ...
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... democracy movement that branded each cohort to exacerbate chasms in values and attitudes between various generational groups. Generational gaps exist in all societies, of course, and many of the intergenerational differences have been ...
... democracy movement that branded each cohort to exacerbate chasms in values and attitudes between various generational groups. Generational gaps exist in all societies, of course, and many of the intergenerational differences have been ...
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... democracy began in 1987. The South Korean economy, despite several fluctuations in fortune, was ranked tenth in the world as of 2005 in terms of annual gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all final goods and services produced ...
... democracy began in 1987. The South Korean economy, despite several fluctuations in fortune, was ranked tenth in the world as of 2005 in terms of annual gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all final goods and services produced ...
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... democracy, improved relations with the US, and harder stances against socialist countries. In South Korea, however, development and democracy have not necessarily resulted in increasing compliance or agreement with US politics or ...
... democracy, improved relations with the US, and harder stances against socialist countries. In South Korea, however, development and democracy have not necessarily resulted in increasing compliance or agreement with US politics or ...
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... democracy as the terminus of historical evolution, and others announcing the dawn of a new age of globalization in which states atrophy, information is borderless, and markets rule.15 This requires analyzing pre-1989 causes of ...
... democracy as the terminus of historical evolution, and others announcing the dawn of a new age of globalization in which states atrophy, information is borderless, and markets rule.15 This requires analyzing pre-1989 causes of ...
Contents
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2 Altered States | 56 |
3 Holy Trinity | 91 |
4 Economic Tetralogies | 124 |
5 Decussation Effects? | 154 |
6 Conclusion | 172 |
Notes | 177 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 195 |
Index | 200 |
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