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

‎Contents......Page 7
‎Acknowledgements......Page 11
‎Tables......Page 14
‎Plates......Page 15
‎List of Abbreviations......Page 16
‎A Moment in the Cold War with China: 2006......Page 21
‎History in the Present Tense......Page 23
‎Industrial Transformation and Developmental States......Page 25
‎Development, Industrialisation, and Social Struggle......Page 32
‎Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Chapters......Page 34
‎Part 1. Theoretical Moorings: Geo-political Economy, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Ruling Class......Page 41
‎Chapter 1. Reconstituting Geo-political Economy......Page 43
‎Introduction......Page 44
‎Geo-political Economy and Class......Page 47
‎Geo-political Economy and Transnational Politics......Page 52
‎Geo-political Economy and ‘Actually Existing Globalisation’......Page 71
‎Methodological Moorings in Geo-political Economy......Page 80
‎Strategic-Relational Geo-political Economies of the Conjuncture......Page 89
‎Chapter 2. The US Military-Industrial Complex and the Ruling Class......Page 95
‎Introduction......Page 96
‎Theorising War and Capitalist Class Transformation......Page 99
‎Class Fractions and Specialists in Violence......Page 109
‎Theorising the Development of the US Military-Industrial Complex......Page 114
‎The Concept of ‘the Ruling Class’......Page 130
‎The Ruling Class and the MIC Personified: Van Fleet, Bonny, and Komer......Page 145
‎James Alward Van Fleet......Page 148
‎John Bruce Bonny......Page 158
‎Robert William Komer......Page 167
‎The Ruling Class: A Unity-in-Diversity......Page 179
‎From the US MIC to the Pacific Ruling Class......Page 182
‎Class Structures......Page 183
‎Colonial Dispensations......Page 184
‎Forms of Social Struggle......Page 185
‎Part 2. Foundations of the Pacific Ruling Class and East Asian Industrialisation: Anticommunism and the Formation of Construction States in East Asia......Page 187
‎Chapter 3. Pacific Ruling Class Formation: The United States, Japan, and China......Page 189
‎Introduction: Producing a Pacific Ruling Class......Page 190
‎Anticommunism: The Cement of the Pacific Ruling Class Alliance......Page 193
‎The United States and Japan: From Occupation to Alliance......Page 199
‎The United States, the Two Chinas, and Vietnam......Page 222
‎Fateful Triangle: The United States, Japan, and China......Page 253
‎Wars and Rumours of Wars: Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East......Page 261
‎Conclusion......Page 268
‎Introduction: Negotiating the MIC in South Korea......Page 270
‎Reconceptualising the Korean Developmental State and Chaebol Networks......Page 274
‎The Geo-political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime......Page 279
‎The Park Regime, 1961–3: Consolidating the US-Korean Ruling Class Coalition......Page 282
‎The Park Regime, 1964–6: Negotiating the Path to Normalisation, War, and Industrial Transformation......Page 321
‎A Geo-political Economy of Steel and Electronics: Benefits of Ruling Class Globalisation......Page 358
‎A Geo-political Economy of Transportation and Construction: Spoils of Special Procurement......Page 372
‎Military Capitalism and the South Korean Construction State......Page 386
‎Conclusion......Page 395
‎Part 3. The Pacific Ruling Class and Regional Development: Expansion of the Pacific Ruling Class and Authoritarian, Anticommunist Developmentalism......Page 399
‎Introduction......Page 401
‎Space-Times of Development......Page 404
‎Marginalising the ROC Military Elite: The Vietnam War and the Transformation of the Taiwanese Developmental State......Page 410
‎Jousting with Jiang......Page 415
‎Priming the ROC Military-Industrial Pump, Lite......Page 423
‎Southeast Asian Differences......Page 433
‎An Emperor without Heavy Artillery: Thailand’s Role in the Vietnam War-Era MIC......Page 434
‎From ISI to ‘Anti-developmental State’: The Marginalisation of the Philippines in the US MIC......Page 467
‎An Island of Industry: The Vietnam War and the Singaporean Developmental State......Page 505
‎Conclusion: Different Constructions of National Developmentalism......Page 514
‎Introduction......Page 522
‎Flying Geese or Fighter Squadron? A Geo-political Economy of Regional Hierarchy......Page 523
‎Rituals of Diplomacy, Cultures of Difference, and Regional Hierarchy......Page 531
‎The 1966 Manila Conference......Page 533
‎Pacific Ruling Class Guănxi......Page 547
‎Entertainment Rituals and Usable Essentialisms......Page 555
‎Anticommunism and Authoritarian Developmentalism in East Asia......Page 567
‎Authoritarianism in the Pacific Ruling Class......Page 570
‎Developmentalism and the Pacific Ruling Class......Page 576
‎From Orientalism to Modernisation to Asian Values......Page 581
‎Organic Intellectuals of the Pacific Ruling Class I: Walt Rostow......Page 583
‎Organic Intellectuals of the Pacific Ruling Class II: Lee Kuan Yew......Page 602
‎Conclusion......Page 620
‎Reprise......Page 624
‎The Philippines: Neo-colonial Redux and Violent Devolution......Page 631
‎Thailand: The Revenge of the Royalists......Page 633
‎South Korea: Securitising Politics......Page 637
‎Taiwan: The Return of the Guomindang, and the DPP......Page 639
‎Japan: The Rise of ‘Abenomics’ and Japanese Remilitarisation......Page 640
‎The United States: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the ‘Pivot to Asia’......Page 642
‎China: Back to Shanghai......Page 643
‎Regional Frictions......Page 644
‎Conclusion......Page 645
‎Bibliography......Page 649
‎Index......Page 682