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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... issue and relations with the US understandably dominate public debate, the fact that the only formal republican organization in Canada, Citizens for a Canadian Republic, was not founded until 2002 should still cause some reflection ...
... issue and relations with the US understandably dominate public debate, the fact that the only formal republican organization in Canada, Citizens for a Canadian Republic, was not founded until 2002 should still cause some reflection ...
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... issues and themes lacing the modern and contemporary histories of both Koreas.16 For example, issues such as religion, education, environment, gender, 12 | Bipolar Orders Objectives.
... issues and themes lacing the modern and contemporary histories of both Koreas.16 For example, issues such as religion, education, environment, gender, 12 | Bipolar Orders Objectives.
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... issues individual scholars are interested in, and in the base knowledge of most readers in South Korea and Japan ... issues. In fact, many of the debates among scholars in South Korea on modern historical issues – especially anything ...
... issues individual scholars are interested in, and in the base knowledge of most readers in South Korea and Japan ... issues. In fact, many of the debates among scholars in South Korea on modern historical issues – especially anything ...
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... issues. Chapter 5 turns to the decussation effects – the apparent improvement of relations between South and North. It examines the impact of popular representations in both countries, the decline of anti-communist education in the ...
... issues. Chapter 5 turns to the decussation effects – the apparent improvement of relations between South and North. It examines the impact of popular representations in both countries, the decline of anti-communist education in the ...
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... more than confirm that the five-point principles of the left and the eight-point platform of the right were worlds apart, especially over the main issues of trusteeship, how to deal with colonial collaborators, land Introduction | 19.
... more than confirm that the five-point principles of the left and the eight-point platform of the right were worlds apart, especially over the main issues of trusteeship, how to deal with colonial collaborators, land Introduction | 19.
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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