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

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‎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