List of Abbreviations
| AFL-CIO |
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| ARD |
Accelerated Rural Development |
| ASG |
Abu Sayaf Group |
| AV |
Asian Values |
| BOI |
Board of Investment (Thailand) |
| CCP |
Chinese Communist Party |
| CEO |
Chief Executive Officer |
| CFR |
Council on Foreign Relations (US) |
| CI |
counter-insurgency |
| CIA |
Central Intelligence Agency (US) |
| CP |
Charoen Pokphand |
| CPM |
Critical Path Method |
| CSTI |
California Special Training Institute |
| DBS |
developmental bureaucratic state |
| DEW |
Distant Early Warning |
| DMZ |
Demilitarised Zone (Korea) |
| DNS |
developmental network state |
| DOD |
Department of Defense (US) |
| DOICC |
Deputy Officer in Charge of Construction (US) |
| DPP |
Democratic Progressive Party (Taiwan) |
| ELI |
export-led industrialisation |
| EOI |
export-oriented industrialisation |
| EPB |
Economic Planning Board (South Korea) |
| FBI |
Federal Bureau of Investigation (US) |
| FDI |
foreign direct investment |
| FDR |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| FESL |
Far Eastern Shipbuilding Limited |
| FKI |
Federation of Korean Industries |
| FRUS |
Foreign Relations of the United States |
| FY |
Fiscal Year |
| GA |
General Assembly (UN) |
| GAO |
General Accounting Office (US) |
| GCMFL |
George C. Marshall Foundation Library |
| GDP |
gross domestic product |
| GE |
General Electric |
| GFCF |
gross fixed capital formation |
| Gimo |
Generalissimo |
| GMD |
Guomindang |
| GOP |
Government of the Philippines |
| GPN |
global production network |
| GPRC |
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution |
| GRC |
Government of the Republic of China |
| GVN |
Government of Vietnam |
| HAK |
Henry A. Kissinger |
| HYL |
Harvard-Yenching Library |
| ICA |
International Cooperation Administration (US) |
| ICT |
information and communication technology |
| IHI |
Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IPE |
international political economy |
| IR |
International Relations |
| ISI |
import-substitution industrialisation |
| JCS |
Joint Chiefs of Staff (US) |
| JFEO |
Japan Federation of Economic Organizations |
| JFK |
John F. Kennedy |
| JFKL |
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library |
| KAIST |
Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
| KCIA |
(South) Korean CIA |
| KEPZ |
Kaohsiung Export Processing Zone |
| KISA |
Korea International Steel Associates |
| KIST |
Korean Institute of Science and Technology |
| KMT |
Kuomintang |
| KNWS |
Keynesian national welfare state |
| KSEC |
Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| LBJ |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
| LBJL |
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library |
| LDP |
Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| MAP |
Military Assistance Program (US) |
| MASH |
mobile army surgical hospital |
| MIC |
military-industrial complex |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MITI |
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Japan) |
| MK |
Morrison-Knudsen |
| MVA |
manufacturing value added |
| NA |
National Archives (US) |
| NARA |
National Archives and Records Administration (US) |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US) |
| NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NEDB |
National Economic Development Board (Thailand) |
| NESDB |
National Economic and Social Development Board (Thailand) |
| NFEC |
Naval Facilities Engineering Command (US) |
| NIC |
newly industrialising country |
| NIE |
National Intelligence Estimate |
| NOL |
Neptune Orient Lines |
| NSAM |
National Security Action Memorandum |
| NSDM |
National Security Decision Memorandum |
| NSSM |
National Security Study Memorandum |
| NSC |
National Security Council (US) |
| OICC |
Officer in Charge of Construction (US) |
| OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| OSP |
offshore procurement |
| OSS |
Office of Strategic Services (US) |
| PAP |
People’s Action Party (Singapore) |
| PHILCAG |
Philippine Civic Action Group |
| PN |
Prison Notebooks (Gramsci) |
| POSCO |
Pohang Iron and Steel Company |
| POW |
prisoner of war |
| PPP |
People’s Power Party (Thailand) |
| PRC |
People’s Republic of China |
| PT |
Peua Thai (political party) |
| R & D |
research and development |
| RMK-BRJ |
Raymond, Morrison-Knudsen, Brown, Root, and Jones |
| RMNL |
Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library |
| ROC |
Republic of China |
| ROK |
Republic of Korea |
| ROKG |
Republic of Korea Government |
| RVN |
Republic of Vietnam |
| SC |
Security Council (UN) |
| SCAP |
Supreme Command Allied Powers |
| SEATO |
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization |
| SPT |
Saha Pracha Thai (political party) |
| SRG |
Senior Review Group (of US NSC) |
| SVN |
South Vietnam |
| TNC |
transnational corporation |
| TRT |
Thai Rak Thai (political party) |
| TVA |
Tennessee Valley Authority |
| UCD |
uneven and combined development |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNIDO |
United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
| USAID |
US Agency for International Development |
| USD |
US dollars |
| USIS |
US Information Service |
| USOM |
US Operations Mission |
| USSBS |
US Strategic Bombing Survey |
| VA |
value added |
| VCP |
Vietnamese Communist Party |
| VN |
Vietnam |
| WASP |
white, anglo-saxon, protestant |