Lexington Books
Pages: 220
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Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-4985-9112-6 • Hardback • April 2019 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-4985-9114-0 • Paperback • March 2022 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-4985-9113-3 • eBook • April 2019 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Gregg A. Brazinsky is professor of history and international affairs at The George Washington University.
Chapter 1: From Supply Lines to Supply Chains: Busan, the Korean War, and the Rise of Global Logistics
By Patrick Chung
Chapter 2: From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency: American Relief Food in the Korean Peripheries in the 1960s
By Dajeong Chung
Chapter 3: “The Carter Zeal” versus “The Carter Chill:” U.S. Policy towards the Korean Peninsula in the Carter Era
By Khue Dieu Do
Chapter 4: Armed with Notebooks and Pencils: North and South Korean Students at the Tehran Foreign School, 1983
By Benjamin R. Young
Chapter 5: North Korea’s Changing Policy Toward the United Nations
By Jie Dong
Chapter 6: Explaining Economic Order in North Korea
By Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Chapter 7 Multiculturalism as State Developmental Policy in Global Korea
By Darcie Draudt
Chapter 8 Democratic Support and Generational Change in South Korea
By Steven Denney
This well-edited collection of essays makes an important contribution to our understanding of the history of the two Koreas in the past seventy years. Each essay examines some aspect of Korea’s global engagement and the degree to which Koreans were passive or active agents in shaping their own development. The essays are accessibly written and broad enough in their implications to be of interest to non-specialists while providing new findings and insights that will require specialists to rethink some of their assumptions about recent Korean history.
— Michael J. Seth, James Madison University
This book indeed explores “new frontiers” with a collection of excellent chapters written by some of the rising young scholars in Korean Studies. The book examines an intriguing set of topics that break new ground and utilize new archival materials while addressing issues that do not receive the attention they deserve. These chapters should be required reading for the fascinating stories they tell of how both Koreas faced difficult challenges in dealing with a changing global environment and worked to determine their own fate.
— Terence Roherig, Naval War College
An exciting and path-breaking look at Korea’s interaction with the modern world. Brazinsky has assembled some the best young scholars of Korea, and has produced a wide-ranging work that offers fresh insights and fresh perspectives. This is a “must-read” for anyone interested in understanding the complicated history of modern Korea.
— Mitch Lerner, The Ohio State University
The essays in this volume are of high quality and on important topics. The book as a whole will be required reading for specialists and students in the field of Korean Studies. Highly recommended!
— Yafeng Xia, Long Island University