Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era: 1945-91

by Nicholas Eberstadt

The Korean peninsula during the Cold War provided a cruel but historically unparalleled real-world "experiment" in the relationship between polity and material advance: an ethnically and culturally homogenous nation was, in 1945, suddenly divided by an arbitrary boundary line and then subjected to two radically different and adversarial political economies for successive decades on end. Assessing the competition between the North and South Korean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844742740
• ISBN13: 9780844742748
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"