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SINCE 1993, SOUTH KOREA HAS EMBRACED A POLICY OF ACCELERATED ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION AND GLOBALIZATION WITH FAR REACHING IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. THIS PAPER EXAMINES THE IMPETUS TO LIBERALIZATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION, IN BOTH INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC CONTEXTS. IT THEN REVIEWS THE ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION PROCESS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE RECENT ACCELERATION OF LIBERALIZATION SCHEDULES. THEN IT DISCUSSES THE STRATEGIC QUESTIONS POSED FOR THE SOUTH KOREAN POLITICAL ECONOMY BY THE PROSPECT OF GLOBALIZATION AND EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBERALIZATION, GLOBALIZATION, AND DOMESTIC REFORM.

In November 1986, a bizarre series of rumours, news reports and official announcements originating in South Korea briefly created the impression in the West that the leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, was dead. By reconstructing this intriguing episode, the author attempts to demonstrate that among the claims made by South Korea concerning this incident there was no evidence that could be substantiated. South Korea as the source of this rumour and not North Korea (as alleged by South Korea). Extreme volatility of the Korean peninsula. (DÜI-Sen)

Globalization and Global History argues that globalization is not an exotic and new phenomenon. Instead it emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact. Studying globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation, allowing the authors collected to assess the extent of ongoing transformations and to compare them to earlier iterations. With this historical advantage, the extent of ongoing changes - which previously

This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level. Through discussion of his work the contributors in this volume examine the shifting currents of the world economy and the accompanying controversies, advances, and regressions in the understanding of global patterns in present and past. Frank's publications from the 1960s to his death in 2005 enlivened and advanced debates on every continent. He analyzed Latin American dependency, long-term accumulation of capital, world systems.

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