Drums of War, Drums of Development

Jim Glassman, Ph.D. (1999), University of Minnesota, is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He has authored two previous books on development issues in Asia, Thailand at the Margins (Oxford, 2004), and Bounding the Mekong (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010).

“This is an important and authoritative account of economic development and the transnational ruling class in East and Southeast Asia.”—Kevin Hewison, Journal of Contemporary Asia“With Drums of War, Drums of Development, readers and scholars have Jim Glassman to thank for authoring the most comprehensive and trenchant account to date of the militarist underside of the Asian Miracle.”—Jerome Patrick Cruz, Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

• Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures, Tables and Plates List of Abbreviations Introduction: From the Drums of War to the Drums of Development A Moment in the Cold War with China: 2006 History in the Present Tense Industrial Transformation and Developmental States Development, Industrialisation, and Social Struggle Drums of War, Drums of Development: The Chapters Part 1 Theoretical Moorings: Geo-political Economy, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Ruling Class 1 Reconstituting Geo-political Economy Introduction Geo-political Economy and Class Geo-political Economy and Transnational Politics Geo-political Economy and "Actually Existing Globalisation" Methodological Moorings in Geo-political Economy Strategic-Relational Geo-political Economies of the Conjuncture 2 The US Military-Industrial Complex and the Ruling Class Introduction Theorising War and Capitalist Class Transformation Class Fractions and Specialists in Violence Theorising the Development of the US Military-Industrial Complex The Concept of "the Ruling Class" The Ruling Class and the MIC Personified: Van Fleet, Bonny, and Komer The Ruling Class: A Unity-in-Diversity From the US MIC to the Pacific Ruling Class Part 2 Foundations of The Pacific Ruling Class and East Asian Industrialisation: Anticommunism and the Formation of Construction States in East Asia 3 Pacific Ruling Class Formation: The United States, Japan, and China Introduction: Producing a Pacific Ruling Class Anticommunism: The Cement of the Pacific Ruling Class Alliance The United States and Japan: From Occupation to Alliance The United States, the Two Chinas, and Vietnam Fateful Triangle: The United States, Japan, and China Wars and Rumours of Wars: Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle East Conclusion 4 Expansion of the Pacific Complex: The Entry of the South Korean ChaebolJim Glassman with Young-Jin ChoiIntroduction: Negotiating the MIC in South Korea Reconceptualising the Korean Developmental State and Chaebol Networks The Geo-political Economy of the Park Chung Hee Regime The Korean Chaebol Enter the Pacific Ruling Class Military Capitalism and the South Korean Construction State Conclusion Part 3 The Pacific Ruling Class and Regional Development: Expansion of the Pacific Ruling Class and Authoritarian, Anticommunist Developmentalism 5 Regional Allies and Differing Developmental Paths within the Complex: Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Singapore Introduction Marginalising the ROC Military Elite: The Vietnam War and the Transformation of the Taiwanese Developmental State Southeast Asian Differences Conclusion: Different Constructions of National Developmentalism 6 Regional Mosaic: War, Hierarchy, and Pacific Ruling Class Formation Introduction Flying Geese or Fighter Squadron? A Geo-political Economy of Regional Hierarchy Rituals of Diplomacy, Cultures of Difference, and Regional Hierarchy Anticommunism and Authoritarian Developmentalism in East Asia From Orientalism to Modernisation to Asian Values Conclusion Conclusion: The Drums of Development and Capitalist Globalisation Reprise The Philippines: Neo-colonial Redux and Violent Devolution Thailand: The Revenge of the Royalists South Korea: Securitising Politics Taiwan: The Return of the Guomindang, and the DPP Japan: The Rise of "Abenomics" and Japanese Remilitarisation The United States: From the "War on Terror" to the "Pivot to Asia" China: Back to Shanghai Regional Frictions Conclusion Bibliography Index