Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the developmental state, ‘Third World developmentalism’ and the fetishism of national development

PART I

Forging, reinforcing and reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state

1 Antithesising the state and the market, and the national and the global: forging the statist concept of the developmental state

2 Linking the state and the market: reinforcing the statist concept of the developmental state’

3 Old assumptions in new debates: reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state

PART II

Theorising the developmental state beyond statism

4 Traditional Marxist theories of the state as class content analysis and their application to the Korean developmental state

5 An alternative Marxist theory of the state: social form critique and its application to the Korean developmental state

6 Theorising the developmental state beyond statism: a critique of the fetishism of national development

PART III

The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state and its transformation

7 The rise of the modern Korean state: capitalism by imperialism and capitalism from above

8 The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state

9 The dialectic of political and economic liberalisation, and the transition of the Korean developmental state

Conclusion: democratisation, fetishisation and the transformation of the developmental state

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Hae-Yung Song works on political theory, development theory and the political economy of South Korea. She has taught at Warwick University and worked for the South Korean government in the areas of international relations and diplomacy. She currently teaches at Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea.