Introduction: The case for political history / Byung-Kook Kim
The May sixteenth military coup / Yong-Sup Han
Taming and tamed by the United States / Taehyun Kim and Chang Jae Baik
State building: the military junta's path to modernity through administrative reforms / Hyung-A Kim
Modernization strategy: ideas and influences / Chung-in Moon and Byung-joon Jun
The labyrinth of solitude : Park and the exercise of presidential power / Byung-Kook Kim
The armed forces / Joo-Hong Kim
The leviathan: economic bureaucracy under Park / Byung-Kook Kim
The origins of the Yushin regime: Machiavelli unveiled / Hyug Baeg Im
Pt. III. Economy and society
The Chaebol / Eun Mee Kim and Gil-Sung Park
The automobile industry / Nae-Young Lee
Pohang iron & steel company / Sang-young Rhyu and Seok-jin Lew
The countryside / Young Jo Lee
The Chaeya / Myung-Lim Park
Pt. IV. International relations
The Vietnam War: South Korea's search for national security / Min Yong Lee
Normalization of relations with Japan: toward a new partnership / Jung-Hoon Lee
The security, political, and human rights conundrum, 1974-1979 / Yong-Jick Kim
The search for deterrence: Park's nuclear option / Sung Gul Hong
Pt. V. Comparative perspective
Nation rebuilders: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Lee Kuan Yew, Deng Xiaoping, and Park Chung Hee / Ezra F. Vogel
Reflections on a reverse image: South Korea under Park Chung Hee and the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos / Paul D. Hutchcroft
The perfect dictatorship? South Korea versus Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico / Jorge I. Domínguez
Industrial policy in key developmental sectors: South Korea versus Japan and Taiwan / Gregory W. Noble
Conclusion: the post-Park era / Byung-Kook Kim.
