Arming the Two Koreas - State, Capital and Military Power (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

Tarki-Young Hamm's book is a critical inquiry into the dynamics of the armament of North and South Korea from the Korean War period to the 1990s. The author's findings reveal that North Korean military superiority is a myth, used by South Korean governments to legitimize military expenditure. Moreover, defence spending has been used to consolidate authoritarian regimes and mobilize popular support. This analysis describes and explains the armament processes of the two Korean states from a more objective, critical perspective. Hamm considers defence expenditure as the best indicator of armament, rather than bean counts or firepower scores. Finding most offical sources unstable, inconsistent or biased, this book seeks to generate more valid, credible data; and it re-estimates the North Korean defence budget, taking foreign aid and depreciation into account. From this material, the author argues that, contrary to popular opinion, the South has been superior in military capital since the mid-1980s. "Arming the Two Koreas" provides a holistic, rather than reductionist, explanation of armament. Following the Grasmscian conception of state power as the sum of coercion and hegemony/consent

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Politics in Asia
Release date:	June 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Taik-Young Hamm
Foreword by:	Michael Leifer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	Annotated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-20792-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > Arms negotiation & control Books > History > General
LSN:	0-415-20792-4
Barcode:	9780415207928

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