Pressure and Protection

Cold War Geopolitics and Nation-Building in South Korea, South Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand

Bibliographic Data

ID3948271
AuthorsJohn L Linantud, John Linantud (University of Houston - Downtown, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume13
Issue4
Pages635-656
Publication date2008-11-26
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650040802275487
OpenAlexW2004551518
LanguageEN
Citations received7

This paper compares the failures and successes of nation-building in South Korea, South Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand between 1954 and 1991. The primary argument is that several key elements of Cold War geopolitics interacted with each other, and the unique external and internal politics of each regime, to create divergent frameworks and margins for error that influenced the willingness and ability of each state to assume the burdens of nation-building. In all four states, moreover, the success of nation-building depended on finding the right balance between geopolitical pressure and protection to augment local narratives of security, nationalism, and legitimacy

Cold war · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · Legitimacy · Narrative · Nation-building · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State-building · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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