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PhD History Columbia University
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According to Wikipedia, Bruce Cumings is an American historian of East Asia, professor, lecturer and author. He is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History, and the former chair of the history department at the University of Chicago. He formerly taught at Northwestern University and the University of Washington. He specializes in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations.

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The origins and development of the Northeast Asian political economy: industrial sectors, product cycles, and political consequences (1984) (601)
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (1997) (397)
A short review (1983) (331)
The Origins of the Korean War (1981) (281)
Liberation and the emergence of separate regimes, 1945-1947 (1982) (165)
The Korean War: A History (2010) (135)
Boundary displacement: Area studies and international studies during and after the cold war (1997) (121)
North Korea: Another Country (2003) (99)
The Origins of the Korean War, Volume II: The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-1950 (1992) (86)
Parallax visions : making sense of American-East Asian relations (1999) (69)
The Korean crisis and the end of ‘late’ development (1998) (68)
Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power (2009) (64)
The two Koreas (1984) (56)
Korea: The Unknown War (1988) (55)
War and Television (1992) (43)
“Revising Postrevisionism,” or, The Poverty of Theory in Diplomatic History (1993) (36)
Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, And Syria (2004) (31)
The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina (1870-1940).Martin J. Murray (1983) (29)
Still the American Century (1999) (28)
Decision-Making and the Korean War@@@The Origins of the Korean War, Vol.2: The Roaring of the Cataract.@@@A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks. (1992) (27)
Parallax Visions (2020) (27)
Child of conflict : the Korean-American relationship, 1943-1953 (1984) (27)
Corporatism in North Korea (1982) (22)
The roaring of the cataract, 1947-1950 (1990) (22)
The End of the Cold War: The Wicked Witch of the West is Dead. Long Live the Wicked Witch of the East (1992) (18)
Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War (2020) (15)
The next in line (2003) (15)
Civil society in West and East (2002) (14)
The Origins of the Korean War. Volume I. Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-47. Volume II, The Roaring of the Cataract, 1947-50. (1992) (14)
Interest and Ideology in the Study of Agrarian Politics (1981) (13)
Rimspeak; or, The Discourse of the “Pacific Rim” (2021) (13)
The Legacy of Japanese Colonialism in Korea (2020) (12)
On the Strategy and Morality of American Nuclear Policy in Korea, 1950 to the Present (The Korean War and Japan) (1998) (12)
COLONIAL FORMATIONS AND DEFORMATIONS : Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam (2004) (11)
Spring Thaw for Korea's Cold War? (1992) (9)
Chapter Three. Webs with No Spiders, Spiders with No Webs: The Genealogy of the Developmental State (2019) (9)
Japanese Colonialism in Korea: A Comparative Perspective (1997) (8)
Occurrence at Nog Ŭn-ri Bridge: An Inquiry into the History and Memory of a Civil War (2001) (8)
Divided Korea: United Future? (1995) (8)
Is America an Imperial Power (2003) (8)
The Political Economy of Chinese Foreign Policy (1979) (7)
State Building in Korea: Continuity and Crisis (2005) (7)
An Open Letter to the APSA Leadership and Members (2000) (7)
“Global Realm With No Limit, Global Realm With No Name” (1993) (6)
In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War (2014) (6)
8. Korean – American Relations: A Century of Contact and Thirty-Five Years of Intimacy (1983) (5)
11 The Korean War What Is It that We Are Remembering to Forget? (2007) (5)
The North Korea Problem: Dealing with Irrationality (2009) (5)
Why Memory Lingers in East Asia (2007) (5)
Why Did So Many Influential Americans Think North Korea Would Collapse (2013) (5)
The Hidden History of the Korean War: 1950–1951 (1969) (4)
China Hand: An Autobiography (2012) (4)
Epilogue to "(De)Memorializing the Korean War: A Critical Intervention" (2015) (4)
Rapprochement in Postwar History: Implications for North Korea (2010) (4)
North Korea: The Sequel (2003) (4)
Getting North Korea wrong (2015) (4)
Reflections on Schurmann's theory of the state (1976) (3)
Where the Cold War Never Ends (1997) (3)
6. The Corporate State in North Korea (2019) (3)
American Orientalism at War in Korea and the United States (2013) (3)
The American Way of Going to War: Mexico (1846) to Iraq (2003) (2007) (3)
The Deng Xiaoping Era (1997) (3)
1. The Asian Crisis, Democracy, and the End of "Late" Development (2019) (3)
On the History and Practice of Unilateralism in East Asia: Or, the More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same (2008) (3)
Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: Japan in British/American Hegemony, 1900–1950 (1993) (3)
Dominion from Sea to Sea (2017) (3)
Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies During and After the Cold War (2012) (3)
Democracy and Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience (1995) (2)
Political Participation in Liberated Korea: Mobilization and Revolt in the Kyŏngsang Provinces, 1945-1950 (2011) (2)
Old and new Korean wars (1994) (2)
Biting the Hand That Feeds You: Why the “Intelligence Function” of American Foundation Support for Area Studies Remains Hidden in Plain Sight (2014) (2)
The Obama “Pivot” to Asia in a Historical Context of American Hegemony (2016) (2)
The Kims' Three Bodies: Communism and Dynastic Succession in North Korea (2012) (2)
America in the World: “Revising Postrevisionism,” Or, The Poverty of Theory in Diplomatic History (1996) (2)
Divided Korea: United Future? Headline Series No. 306. (1995) (1)
Chapter Five _ FORGING A NEW ORDER: THE ENTRY OF AMERICAN FORCES AND POLICIES TOWARD THE BUREAUCRACY, THE POLICE, AND THE MILITARY (2003) (1)
Imagining the Korean War (2017) (1)
Korea: As Seen by Magnum Photographers (2008) (1)
Postscript: Response to my friends and critics (1997) (1)
Obama, Trump and North Korea (2020) (1)
The World Shakes China (2012) (1)
What Is a Pacific Century—and How Will We Know When It Begins? (1994) (1)
Chapter Seventeen _ A QUIET WEEKEND IN JUNE: TOKYO, MOSCOW, AND WASHINGTON ON THE EVE OF THE WAR (2003) (1)
The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace (2018) (1)
The Security Of Korea (1983) (1)
The Origins of the Korean War. Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes, 1945-1947.@@@Korea. The Untold Story of the War. (1983) (1)
Toward a Comprehensive Settlement of the Korea Problem (1999) (1)
The Two Koreas. Foreign Policy Association Headline Series, No. 269. (1984) (1)
AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER (2016) (0)
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2021) (0)
Reviewers for Volume 33 (2004) (0)
Kim Il-song's North Korea. Helen-Louis Hunter (2001) (0)
Chapter Four _ CRUCIBLE OF POLICY: CONTENDING FORCES IN AMERICAN FOR KOREA, 1943-1945 (2003) (0)
Chapter Ten _ THE AUTUMN HARVEST UPRISINGS (2003) (0)
You Can't Win for Losing—At Least in the Third World (2008) (0)
Reviews (2006) (0)
China through the looking glass (1999) (0)
War Crimes and Historical Memory: The United Nations Occupation of North Korea in 1950 (2002) (0)
Dilemmas in United States-Korean relations (1980) (0)
The end of history or the return of liberal crisis (1999) (0)
American-East Asian relations before and after Black September (2003) (0)
East Wind, Rain Red Wind Black Rain: The United States-Japan War, Beginning and End (2012) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Chapter Four _ PREDESTINATION FOR THE LABYRINTH: SPIES AND SPECULATORS (2003) (0)
Violet Ashes: A Tribute to Chris Marker (2015) (0)
Nuclear Imbalance of Terror: The American Surveillance Regime and North Korea’s Nuclear Programme (1998) (0)
Chapter Thirteen _ “THE SPEECH”: ACHESONIAN DETERRENCE AT THE PRESS CLUB (2003) (0)
2. The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences (2019) (0)
Chapter Twenty _ THE POLITICAL CHARACTER OF THE WAR: PEOPLE’S COMMITTEES AND WHITE PAJAMAS (2003) (0)
The Korean War: (2007) (0)
Back to Basics? The Recurrence of the Same in Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2014) (0)
The Origins of the Cold War in Asia. By Nagai Yōnosuke and Iriye Akira. (New York: Columbia University Press, and Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 448. $25.00.) (1979) (0)
Korea’s Centrality to the Cold War (2016) (0)
Chapter Eleven _ THE NORTH WIND (2003) (0)
Compromised in Korea: Redeemed by the Clinton Administrations? (1997) (0)
Tribute to Alan Wolfe (1999) (0)
China's Bullying No Match for US Pacific Power (2014) (0)
Dominion From Sea to Sea: America's Pacific Ascendancy (2012) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
Chapter Seven _ THE RESISTANCE TO THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM (2003) (0)
Trump, Kim, and an Uncanny Diplomatic Opening (2018) (0)
The sources of North Korean conduct (2018) (0)
Chapter Twelve _ CONCLUSIONS: LIBERATION DENIED (2003) (0)
South Korea in Crisis: Danger or Opportunity? (2012) (0)
Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory. By Soon Won Park. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 223. $42.50 (2000) (0)
Shaped by War and Trade: International Influences on American Political Development. Ed. by Ira Katznelson and Martin Shefter. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. xii, 372 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 0-691-05703-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-691-05704-4.) (2003) (0)
Chapter Six _ THE SOUTHERN SYSTEM (2003) (0)
8. The Assumptions Did It (2011) (0)
Pacific Ascendancy: Or, A Non-Atlanticist View of the American Position in the World (2011) (0)
1322 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES rationale for American intervention in Indochina during the 1940s and 1950s. On that score, the book's failure to acknowledge the radical critique of American policy (2009) (0)
JAS volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1990) (0)
Chapter Eighteen _ WHO STARTED THE KOREAN WAR? THREE MOSAICS (2003) (0)
Alan Wolfe (1944–1998) (1999) (0)
Stay the course on Asia (2001) (0)
Liberal Order in Our Time: Toward “A Moratorium on the Slaying of Dilemmas” (2000) (0)
Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman (2016) (0)
Chapter Twenty-Two _ CONCLUSION: THE SETTING SUN (2003) (0)
American Foreign Relations and East Asia (2020) (0)
Chapter Three _ ROLLBACK AND NATIONALISM (2003) (0)
Reviews (2004) (0)
America in the World: Commentaries (1996) (0)
Chapter Three _ AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1945: REVOLUTION AND REACTION (2003) (0)
The Ambiguous Legacy: The American Century and the Third World (1999) (0)
High Technology and Ideology: America's Japan Mythology (1983) (0)
The life of a Korean communist (1974) (0)
A monstrous idea (1994) (0)
Chapter Eight _ THE GUERRILLA CONFLICT (2003) (0)
Reviews (2001) (0)
The politics of liberation (1975) (0)
U.S.-North Korean Bilateral Relations and South Korean Security (2001) (0)
Chapter Twenty-One _ THE WAR FOR ROLLBACK (2003) (0)
9.1. Boundary Displacement (2020) (0)
Hegemons can't help it (2002) (0)
Kennan, Containment, Conciliation (1995) (0)
PART II. From Sea to Shining Sea: Manifest Destiny (2017) (0)
Cold War Structure and Korea's Regional and Global Security (2002) (0)
Chapter Eight _ AN OVERVIEW OF THE PEOPLE’S COMMITTEES IN THE PROVINCES (2003) (0)
No Substitute for Plain Wisdom (2015) (0)
Chapter Twelve _ DECENT INTERVAL: AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL, THE BORDER FIGHTING, AND THE GUERRILLA SUPPRESSION (2003) (0)
The End of the Seventy-Years' Crisis (2019) (0)
Reviews (2002) (0)
Civil Society and Democracy in the United States and East Asia (2012) (0)
Chapter Six _ TOWARD A SEPARATE SOUTHERN GOVERNMENT (2003) (0)
Chapter Seven _ INTERNATIONALIST POLICY AND NATIONALIST LOGIC: HARDENING AT THE CENTER IN 1946 (2003) (0)
The Korean Peninsula in the Context of China's 'Rise': A Set of Problems and Some Modest Steps toward Resolving Them (2007) (0)
Chapter Nineteen _ THE WAR FOR CONTAINMENT (2003) (0)
Chapter Five _ ROLLBACK PERCOLATES IN THE BUREAUCRACY (2003) (0)
The Failure of Democracy in South Korea, and: The Widening Gulf: Asian Nationalism and American Policy, and: Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes, and: Divided Korea: The Politics of Development, 1945-1972 (review) (1979) (0)
Introduction to the supplement (1977) (0)
Chapter Two _ LORD AND PEASANT IN COLONIAL KOREA (2003) (0)
4. Japan and Northeast Asia into the Twenty-first Century (2019) (0)
Chapter Eleven _ NORTH KOREA’S CHINA CONNECTION (2003) (0)
South Korea (1986) (0)
Japan as Number One (or Two): The American Preference for Japan in the East Asian Order, 1894~2014 (2015) (0)
Chapter Ten _ THE SOVIETS AND NORTH KOREA (2003) (0)
A little history is a bad thing (2001) (0)
Mao and Beyond (2004) (0)
The Northeast Asian Political Economy Under Two Hegemonies (2019) (0)
Archaeology, Descent, Emergence: American Mythology and East Asian Reality (2012) (0)
America in East Asia: Symposium on American Cultural Influences in China, Japan, and Korea (2005) (0)
Chapter Fourteen _ NORTH KOREA ON THE EVE OF THE WAR (2003) (0)
Chapter Nine _ THE NORTHERN SYSTEM (2003) (0)
China, The United Nations, and World Order . By Samuel S. Kim. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. xviii, 581 pp. Tables, Charts, Bibliography, Index. $32.50. (1980) (0)
Eulogy for John S. Service (2000) (0)
Don't count on it (1999) (0)
Chapter Two _ CONTAINMENT AND INTERNATIONALISM (2003) (0)
The Binghamton Collective (1983) (0)
PART I. A Frontier of the Mind (2017) (0)
Seeing Like an Area Specialist (2020) (0)
Carter J. Eckert. Park Chung Hee and Modern Korea: The Roots of Militarism, 1866–1945. (2018) (0)
East Asia and the United States: Double Vision and Hegemonic Emergence (2012) (0)
Chapter One _ CLASS AND STATE IN COLONIAL KOREA (2003) (0)

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