[KS] Distinguished Lecture Series: East Asia's Developmentalist Scrambling for the Global South: 'Asian Traps' of Aid Competitions and Fragmentations

[Charlotte Hammond]

Dear all,

You are warmly invited to the following Distinguished Lecture Series held
by Scottish Centre for Korean Studies on Wednesday 11th June at *3:00pm. *


*Scottish Centre for Korean Studies*
* Distinguished Lecture Series*

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East Asia's Developmentalist Scrambling for the Global South: 'Asian Traps'
of Aid Competitions and Fragmentations

*Taekyoon Kim*
(Seoul National University)

*Wednesday 11th June*
*1500-1700*
*1.06, 50 George Square*


*Abstract: *This lecture sets out to identify and explore a toxic concept
of ‘Asian traps’ that are anchored in East Asia’s developmentalism-obsessed
aid policies, with the particular reference to three Asian donors – China,
Japan, and South Korea. Through their historical paths of modernization,
three donor countries commonly share the state-led economic growth
strategies in accordance with the developmental state thesis, albeit
differently applied. The developmental state in East Asia not only
justified the embedded symbiosis between governments and non-state actors –
particularly, business sector – by emphasizing economic development as
nation’s top priority, but also overshadowed democratic transitions as the
secondary concern of the state. Legacies of East Asia’s developmental
approach to economic modernization have been deeply entrenched as a
strategic backbone of three Asian donors’ developmentalist foreign
assistance policies towards the Global South, which would create the root
cause of Asian traps. In this regard, comparing three Asian donors’
developmentalism-centred aid strategies will be examined by tracing the
commercialised patterns of the development state in the field of
development aid across China, Japan and South Korea.

*Bio: *Taekyoon Kim is the Director of Peace Cooperation at the Institute
for Peace and Unification Studies (IPUS) and Associate Dean of the Graduate
School of International Studies (GSIS) at Seoul National University (SNU).
He received his D.Phil. in Social Policy and Intervention (social
development) from the University of Oxford, and another Ph.D. in
International Relations (international development) from the Paul H. Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His
research interests cover international development, peace studies, global
south studies and international political sociology, and his scholarly
works appear at various peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of
Democracy, International Sociology, Global Governance, as well as book
projects such as The Korean State and Social Policy (Oxford University
Press, 2011).

The event is in-person and free to attend. Registration is not required.
We look forward to seeing some of you there.

Best wishes,
Charlotte Hammond
PhD candidate in Korean Studies
Administrative Assistant, Scottish Centre for Korean Studies, University of
Edinburgh
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