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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: the developmental state, ‘Third World developmentalism’ and the fetishism of national developmentPART IForging, reinforcing and reproducing the statist concept of the developmental state1 Antithesising the state and the market, and the national and the global: forging the statist concept of the developmental state2 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 statePART IITheorising the developmental state beyond statism4 Traditional Marxist theories of the state as class content analysis and their application to the Korean developmental state5 An alternative Marxist theory of the state: social form critique and its application to the Korean developmental state6 Theorising the developmental state beyond statism: a critique of the fetishism of national developmentPART IIIThe global and social origins of the Korean developmental state and its transformation7 The rise of the modern Korean state: capitalism by imperialism and capitalism from above8 The global and social origins of the Korean developmental state9 The dialectic of political and economic liberalisation, and the transition of the Korean developmental stateConclusion: democratisation, fetishisation and the transformation of the developmental stateBibliographyIndex