INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT: THE US INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTH KOREA AND TÜRKİYE BETWEEN 1945-1990

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2023-8-11

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DEMİREL, ÖZGE

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The aim of this dissertation is to examine the divergent developmental trajectories of South Korea and Türkiye from the perspective of International Political Economy and find out the role of United States (US) programs and foreign policy in these countries. The US has long been an aid provider since the Second World War, and the noteworthy flow of US’ resources has significant implications for both the international political economy architecture and the receiving countries. The development of South Korea and Türkiye has been heavily influenced by US foreign policy tools and their concomitants, which end up with a different and novel governing apparatus. In studying the US foreign programs, sources include; external features that are specific to the relationship between the US and other actors, domestic dynamics, i.e. economic aid, involvement in defense infrastructure capabilities, promotion of land reform, and promotion of American interests in trade, and the systemic variables, which cannot be abstracted from the ongoing international political economy context. One developmental package existing of four coequal tools were implemented in different degree in Türkiye and South Korea. In this framework, this research will seek answers and investigate how the US programs contribute growth and development of the countries, and why South Korean and Turkish economic and political development become different by situating the cases within a broader political economy framework.

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South Korea, Türkiye, development, US assistance, Cold War

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104838

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis