How has South Korea's development influenced and been influenced by world events? The neo-Gramscian school theories that world history reveals specific periods of hegemonic stability such as during the post-World War II period of ""Pax Americana,"" but this new account of Korean development demonstrates that this speculation cannot be fully justified. Through making creative links between forms of state, education programs, labor relations, and the global climate throughout a series of ""historical blocs"" such as the period of Japanese colonization, Phoebe Moore covers the story of South...

This book, which brings together scholars from the developed and developing world, explores one of the most salient features of contemporary international relations: South-South cooperation. It builds on existing empirical evidence and offers a comparative analytical framework to critically analyse the aid policies and programmes of ten rising donors from the global South. Amongst these are several BRICS (Brazil, India, China and South Africa) but also a number of less studied countries, including Cuba, Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Turkey, and Korea. The chapters trace the...