David Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Bargaining Theory of War and North Korea
Is war becoming more likely on the Korean Peninsula? How might we assess this likelihood? In this article, we apply the bargaining theory of war to the Korean Peninsula, which elicits three key insights. First, both sides of the Peninsula are well aware of each other’s relative power; thus, the information problem that could increase the possibility of war is minimal. Second, the commitment problem concerning North Korea’s denuclearization does n…
Nuclear North Korea
Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. With a new chapter on the way forward for the international community in light of continued nuclear tensions, this book is of lasting relevance to understanding the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula
Worse Than a Monolith
Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History
The balance of power is one of the most influential theoretical ideas in international relations, but it has not yet been tested systematically in international systems other than modern Europe and its global successor. This article is the product of a collective and multidisciplinary research effort to redress this deficiency. We report findings from eight new case studies on balancing and balancing failure in different international systems tha…
Psychodynamic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder and Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders
Institutions and growth in Korea and Taiwan
How do competent bureaucracies emerge in developing countries? We examine bureaucratic reform in Korea and Taiwan and argue that in both cases political leaders had an interest in reforming the civil service to carry out their programmatic initiatives. In addition, both governments undertook organisational reforms that made certain parts of the bureaucracy more meritocratic, while utilising centralised and insulated pilot agencies' in overall pol…
Japanese colonialism and Korean development
New scholarship on economic development in Korea has focused on the beneficial effects of Japanese colonialism and on certain continuities between Korea's growth strategy before and after World War II. We challenge this new revisionism. The growth record under the Japanese occupation was more modest than is often thought, there are greater discontinuities than continuities between the colonial and postwar eras, and political independence was an i…
Award Recipients
The legacy
Award Recipients
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Japanese colonialism and Korean development
New scholarship on economic development in Korea has focused on the beneficial effects of Japanese colonialism and on certain continuities between Korea's growth strategy before and after World War II. We challenge this new revisionism. The growth record under the Japanese occupation was more modest than is often thought, there are greater discontinuities than continuities between the colonial and postwar eras, and political independence was an i…
Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History
The balance of power is one of the most influential theoretical ideas in international relations, but it has not yet been tested systematically in international systems other than modern Europe and its global successor. This article is the product of a collective and multidisciplinary research effort to redress this deficiency. We report findings from eight new case studies on balancing and balancing failure in different international systems tha…
Award Recipients
The legacy
Award Recipients
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Japanese colonialism and Korean development
New scholarship on economic development in Korea has focused on the beneficial effects of Japanese colonialism and on certain continuities between Korea's growth strategy before and after World War II. We challenge this new revisionism. The growth record under the Japanese occupation was more modest than is often thought, there are greater discontinuities than continuities between the colonial and postwar eras, and political independence was an i…
Institutions and growth in Korea and Taiwan
How do competent bureaucracies emerge in developing countries? We examine bureaucratic reform in Korea and Taiwan and argue that in both cases political leaders had an interest in reforming the civil service to carry out their programmatic initiatives. In addition, both governments undertook organisational reforms that made certain parts of the bureaucracy more meritocratic, while utilising centralised and insulated pilot agencies' in overall pol…
Psychodynamic Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder and Co-Occurring Alcohol Use Disorders
Testing Balance-of-Power Theory in World History
The balance of power is one of the most influential theoretical ideas in international relations, but it has not yet been tested systematically in international systems other than modern Europe and its global successor. This article is the product of a collective and multidisciplinary research effort to redress this deficiency. We report findings from eight new case studies on balancing and balancing failure in different international systems tha…
Worse Than a Monolith
Nuclear North Korea
Nuclear North Korea was first published in 2003 amid the outbreak of a lasting crisis over the North Korean nuclear program. With a new chapter on the way forward for the international community in light of continued nuclear tensions, this book is of lasting relevance to understanding the state of affairs on the Korean peninsula
The Bargaining Theory of War and North Korea
Is war becoming more likely on the Korean Peninsula? How might we assess this likelihood? In this article, we apply the bargaining theory of war to the Korean Peninsula, which elicits three key insights. First, both sides of the Peninsula are well aware of each other’s relative power; thus, the information problem that could increase the possibility of war is minimal. Second, the commitment problem concerning North Korea’s denuclearization does n…
Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Asian Industrial and Economic Development (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Content (measure theory (2 works) · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (2 works)