Geopolitics and Trajectories of Development

 

Kang, Sungho and Ramón Grosfoguel(ed)

Geopolitics and Trajectories of Development: The Cases of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Puerto Rico

 

   
Research Papers and Policy Studies 45, 2010.

 

This edited volume compares the geopolitics and trajectories of South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and Puerto Rico in response to post-WWII U.S. foreign policy to understand how these showcases have developed within the modern capitalist World-System. It also focuses on the changing relations between the United States and these societies from the Cold War to the post-Cold War periods. Through this book you may better understand the past and present of these states and may also essay to forecast the future of the rapidly changing World-System. There is no work quite like this currently available in the field of Development Studies.

 

Contents

Contributors
Foreword - Clare You
Introduction - Sungho Kang and Ramón Grosfoguel

1.Beyond Divide and Rule? From the Washington to the Beijing Consensus
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer
2.U.S. Policies and the Rise and Demise of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan: An Examination of the World-System during the Cold War and After
Satoshi Ikeda
3.The United States and the Internal Development of Korea in the Post-WWII World-System
Sungho Kang
4.Patronage, Partnership, Contested Solidarity: The United States and West Germany aft er World War II
Bernd Schaefer
5.Puerto Rico: A Cold War Showcase in Rapid Decline
Ramón Grosfoguel