Imagining Taiwan: The Nixon Administration, the Developmental States, and South Vietnam’s Search for Economic Viability, 1969–1975

2016/11/08 by Simon Toner · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Administration (probate law) #Chinese history and philosophy #Development economics #Economic growth #Economics #Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies #Law #Modernization theory #Political science #Vietnam War #Vietnamese #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1093/dh/dhw057

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Abstract

The paper explores South Vietnamese efforts to draw on the lessons of the Taiwan and Korean “developmental states” and to employ these lessons in Saigon’s modernization efforts. It argues that development, shaped by debates about Taiwan and Korea, played an important role in the outcome of the war.

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