Ranko Bon, Philip Blue, Philip Stott, Anna Nagurney, Timothy Hunt, Neil Bentley, Douglas Syverson,
... history wars and peace parks Half-finished What Lee Myung-bak still needs to do The Economist EuroFinance The ...
2008 - Gale Group | The Economist
... US and South Korean presidents, Barack Obama and Myung-bak Lee, strategically presented themselves during their first year of ...
Tópico(s): Media Studies and Communication
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Cogent Arts and Humanities
Abstract Abstract Since his inauguration in February 2008, Lee Myung-bak has pursued a “pragmatic” foreign policy based on ... policy agenda in practical terms. This article assesses Lee Myung-bak's foreign policy performance in the first nine ... in inter-Korean relations. In addition, it considers Lee Myung bak's efforts to design a global strategy for ... in Seoul, September 1, 2008. 6. H.E. Lee Myung-bak, address to The Korea Society 2008 Annual Dinner, ... Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea, Camp David, April ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Korean Journal of Defense Analysis
Michael Cole, Jacek Gwizdka, Chang Liu, Nicholas J. Belkin,
... news story below. "New South Korean President Lee Myung-bak takes office Lee Myung-bak is the 10th man to serve as South Korea's president and the first to come from a business background. He won a landslide victory in last December's election. He pledged to make the economy his top priority during the campaign. Lee promised to achieve 7% annual economic growth, double ...
Tópico(s): Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence
2011 - Wiley | Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Abstract This paper examines the election of Lee Myung Bak through the terminal crisis of the Roh Moo Hyun government that preceded it. I start with an analysis of the election of Lee Myung Bak and the electoral strategies of the liberal-progressive ... the Roh government and the conservative government of Lee Myung Bak. My hope is that thorough examination of these ...
Tópico(s): Social Policy and Reform Studies
2009 - Routledge | Journal of Contemporary Asia
... the inauguration of South Korea's new president, Lee Myung-bak, Korea's China policy is changing. Replacing the ... For the United States, the diplomatic shift of Lee Myung-bak to the policy of twin hedging is, of ... China depends on how carefully and competently the Lee Myung-bak administration convinces the Chinese government of the ROK' ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Korean Journal of Defense Analysis
... still the issue in South Korea. Under the Lee Myung-bak administration, much of the progress in South Korean ... succeeded in regaining political power in 2008 (under Lee Myung-bak). The idea of a “2013 regime” is to ...
Tópico(s): Asian Industrial and Economic Development
2013 - Routledge | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
... official aid in 2008 after its conservative president, Lee Myung-bak, ended the country's “sunshine” policy of engagement ... official aid in 2008 after its conservative president, Lee Myung-bak, ended the country's “sunshine” policy of engagement ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2012 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet
... development discourses of the Roh Moo-hyun and Lee Myung-bak governments and evaluate their governance in achieving their ...
Tópico(s): Globalization and Cultural Identity
2011 - Seoul National University | Development and Society
... the Kevin Rudd/Julia Gillard (2007–2013) and Lee Myung-bak (2008–2013) administrations. Considering the problems in the ...
Tópico(s): Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
2017 - Taylor & Francis | The Pacific Review
... Middle East foreign policy under the presidency of Lee Myung-bak, during a turbulent transitional period in the region. These include serious attempts to forge multifaceted and long-lasting connections with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), efforts to penetrate Kurdistan’s energy and construction industries, and strategies to overcome the quandary of sanctions against Iran. Epitomized by the concept of ‘déjà vu diplomacy’, this study argues that Lee drew heavily on his previous experiences in the ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Education and Engineering Focus
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Contemporary Arab Affairs
... Integration (EPI). Confronted with these policy changes, the Lee Myung-bak government announced “Low-Carbon Green Growth” in 2008 as national agenda for development that focus attention on environmental and energy issues. Economic policy and environmental policy have been traditionally seen in a conflicting relationship with different paths of policy development. However, the administration of President Lee is now emphasizing the synergy effects between the ...
Tópico(s): Asian Industrial and Economic Development
2011 - | STI policy review
Sung Deuk Hahm, Yong-Hwan Choi,
At the beginning, President Lee Myung Bak (LMB) was praised as a tough-minded decision-maker who knows how to get things done. As South Korea’s ...
Tópico(s): Policy Transfer and Learning
2009 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
... DPRK deteriorated significantly after the inauguration of President Lee Myung-Bak in February 2008, due to a new policy toward Korea in the Lee government.1 The so-called North Wind (Pukp' ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2009 - University of British Columbia | Pacific Affairs
... contention in the controversial educational reforms of the Lee Myung-bak regime (2008–2012). It figured prominently in various changes to the Korean education system pursued by the Lee administration under the name of greater competitiveness, such ...
Tópico(s): EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
2013 - John Benjamins Publishing Company | Studies in world language problems
... matters on nation branding in Korea. Consequently, the Lee Myung-bak administration (2008–13) took drastic action by establishing the Presidential Council on Nation Branding (PCNB) in 2009 to deal with nation branding. This policy initiative on nation branding was conducted by the Lee administration from February 2008 to February 2013. This ...
Tópico(s): International Business and FDI
2014 - Routledge | The Journal of Comparative Asian Development
... better (particularly compared with the five years under Lee Myung-bak), such concerns on the part of the United ...
Tópico(s): International Relations and Foreign Policy
2016 - National Bureau of Asian Research | Asia policy
... project initiated by Park Chung-Hee in 1960s. Lee Myung-Bak's nation branding campaign belongs to a series ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2016 - Routledge | Asian Studies Review
The climate change policy design of the Lee Myung-bak administration was the outcome of interest group politics around the greenhouse gas and energy target management scheme, carbon taxes, and the emission-trading ...
Tópico(s): Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
2015 - Taylor & Francis | Environmental Politics
... It analyses how the Roh Moo-hyun and Lee Myung-bak governments sought to articulate their respective middle-power ...
Tópico(s): International Development and Aid
2015 - Taylor & Francis | The Pacific Review

Margaret Armstrong, Rafael D'Arrigo, Carlos Otávio Petter, Alain Galli,
... sector groups. After his election in 2008, President Lee Myung-bak put pressure on public sector entities to speed ...
Tópico(s): Natural Resources and Economic Development
2015 - Elsevier BV | Resources Policy
... from popular challenges. Under the conservative governments of Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, this process has been ...
Tópico(s): Asian Industrial and Economic Development
2015 - Routledge | Journal of Contemporary Asia
... networked nation. However, only two years later the Lee Myung-bak administration dismantled the ICT control tower in favor ...
Tópico(s): Innovation Policy and R&D
2014 - Elsevier BV | Telecommunications Policy
... food.” Under the hard-line policy of the Lee Myung-Bak administration (2008-2012), South Korean human rights NGOs ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Critical Asian Studies
... Ministry of National Defense, 2008), p. 46. 32. Lee Myung-bak, Global Korea: The National Security Strategy of the ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Asian Security
AbstractConservative mayor of Seoul, Lee Myung-bak, oversaw a project to restore the Cheonggyecheon stream from 2003 to 2005. The purpose of the restoration was to improve ...
Tópico(s): Night-time city culture
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Urban Technology
... Since March 2008, the new South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has taken a harsher stance towards the North, ...
Tópico(s): Japanese History and Culture
2012 - Brill | Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
... and the continuing North Korean nuclear quagmire, the Lee Myung-bak government made dramatic reversals in 2009. But winning ...
Tópico(s): Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies
2010 - University of California Press | Asian Survey
... with the forging of a partnership with the Lee Myung-bak administration, which had just been launched under the ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Korean Journal of Defense Analysis
... prevalent among Koreans, and how the voters supported Lee Myung Bak across age groups, regions, and parties in the ...
Tópico(s): Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
2010 - Taylor & Francis | The Pacific Review