Contents -- Introduction -- Part One - Born in a Crisis -- 1. The May Sixteenth Military Coup -- 2. Taming and Tamed by the United States -- 3. State Building: The Military Junta's Path to Modernity through Administrative Reforms -- Part Two - Politics -- 4. Modernization Strategy: Ideas and Influences -- 5. The Labyrinth of Solitude: Park and the Exercise of Presidential Power -- 6. The Armed Forces -- 7. The Leviathan: Economic Bureaucracy under Park -- 8. The Origins of the Yushin Regime: Machiavelli Unveiled -- Part Three - Economy and Society -- 9. The Chaebol -- 10. The Automobile Industry -- 11. Pohang Iron & Steel Company -- 13. The Chaeya -- 12. The Countryside -- Part Four - International Relations -- 14. The Vietnam War: South Korea's Search for National Security -- 15. Normalization of Relations with Japan: Toward a New Partnership -- 16. The Security, Political, and Human Rights Conundrum, 1974-1979 -- 17. The Search for Deterrence: Park's Nuclear Option -- Part Five - Comparative Perspective -- 18. Nation Rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee -- 19. Reflections on a Reverse Image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos -- 20. The Perfect Dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico -- 21. Industrial Policy in Key Developmental Sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan -- Conclusion: The Post-Park Era -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index of Persons.