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

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).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Tables and PlatesList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: From the Drums of War to the Drums of DevelopmentA Moment in the Cold War with China: 2006History in the Present TenseIndustrial Transformation and Developmental StatesDevelopment, Industrialisation, and Social StruggleDrums of War, Drums of Development: The ChaptersPart 1 Theoretical Moorings: Geo-political Economy, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Ruling Class1 Reconstituting Geo-political EconomyIntroductionGeo-political Economy and ClassGeo-political Economy and Transnational PoliticsGeo-political Economy and ‘Actually Existing Globalisation’Methodological Moorings in Geo-political EconomyStrategic-Relational Geo-political Economies of the Conjuncture2 The US Military-Industrial Complex and the Ruling ClassIntroductionTheorising War and Capitalist Class TransformationClass Fractions and Specialists in ViolenceTheorising the Development of the US Military-Industrial ComplexThe Concept of ‘the Ruling Class’The Ruling Class and the MIC Personified: Van Fleet, Bonny, and KomerThe Ruling Class: A Unity-in-DiversityFrom the US MIC to the Pacific Ruling ClassPart 2 Foundations of The Pacific Ruling Class and East Asian Industrialisation: Anticommunism and the Formation of Construction States in East Asia3 Pacific Ruling Class Formation: The United States, Japan, and ChinaIntroduction: Producing a Pacific Ruling ClassAnticommunism: The Cement of the Pacific Ruling Class AllianceThe United States and Japan: From Occupation to AllianceThe United States, the Two Chinas, and VietnamFateful Triangle: The United States, Japan, and ChinaWars and Rumours of Wars: Korea, Vietnam, and the Middle EastConclusion4 Expansion of the Pacific Complex: The Entry of the South Korean ChaebolJim Glassman with Young-Jin ChoiIntroduction: Negotiating the MIC in South KoreaReconceptualising the Korean Developmental State and Chaebol NetworksThe Geo-political Economy of the Park Chung Hee RegimeThe Korean Chaebol Enter the Pacific Ruling ClassMilitary Capitalism and the South Korean Construction StateConclusionPart 3 The Pacific Ruling Class and Regional Development: Expansion of the Pacific Ruling Class and Authoritarian, Anticommunist Developmentalism5 Regional Allies and Differing Developmental Paths within the Complex: Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and SingaporeIntroductionMarginalising the ROC Military Elite: The Vietnam War and the Transformation of the Taiwanese Developmental StateSoutheast Asian DifferencesConclusion: Different Constructions of National Developmentalism6 Regional Mosaic: War, Hierarchy, and Pacific Ruling Class FormationIntroductionFlying Geese or Fighter Squadron? A Geo-political Economy of Regional HierarchyRituals of Diplomacy, Cultures of Difference, and Regional HierarchyAnticommunism and Authoritarian Developmentalism in East AsiaFrom Orientalism to Modernisation to Asian ValuesConclusionConclusion: The Drums of Development and Capitalist GlobalisationRepriseThe Philippines: Neo-colonial Redux and Violent DevolutionThailand: The Revenge of the RoyalistsSouth Korea: Securitising PoliticsTaiwan: The Return of the Guomindang, and the DPPJapan: The Rise of ‘Abenomics’ and Japanese RemilitarisationThe United States: From the ‘War on Terror’ to the ‘Pivot to Asia’China: Back to ShanghaiRegional FrictionsConclusionBibliographyIndex

Shortlisted for the 2019 Deutscher Memorial Prize"This is an important and authoritative account of economic development and the transnational ruling class in East and Southeast Asia." - Kevin Hewison, University of North Carolina at Chapel and University of Macau, in: Journal of Contemporary Asia 51/2 (2021) [Full review]