Date: 2020
Type: Article
American diplomacy and export-oriented industrialization on Taiwan
Journal of east Asian studies, 2020, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 463-483
LEE, James, American diplomacy and export-oriented industrialization on Taiwan, Journal of east Asian studies, 2020, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 463-483
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70022
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Scholars have pointed to the period 1958-1962 as the beginning of Taiwan's transition to export-oriented industrialization. Although the Nationalist Party (KMT) had traditionally supported state socialism, the KMT began to oversee economic reforms in the late 1950s, setting Taiwan on the course of export-led growth under a capitalist model. Using archival materials from both the United States and Taiwan, I argue that the reforms resulted from U.S. influence on how the KMT understood the role of economic development in its grand strategy. U.S. arguments succeeded in creating political support at the highest levels of the KMT leadership for a reform-oriented faction in the economic bureaucracy. This finding shows how an aid donor can promote economic reforms even when the recipient is strategically important for the donor : although threats to enforce conditionality may not be credible, the donor can influence the recipient through persuasion.
Additional information:
First published online: 22 April 2020
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/70022
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/jea.2020.9
ISSN: 1598-2408; 2234-6643
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Files associated with this item
Files | Size | Format | View |
---|---|---|---|
There are no files associated with this item. |