List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Aspects of the Transition and Theoretical Consideration; T.Y.Kong & D.H.Kim - PART 1: COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Industrial Development and Technology; S.Lall -Economic Concentration and Disparities: The Political Economy of Class, Region and the Chaebol; D.H.Kim - North and South Korean Economies Compared; E. G.Hwang - PART 2: REGIME CHANGE AND CONTINUITY - Democratisation and its Aftermath: Transition and Continuity in South Korea; T.Y.Kong - North Korea in Retrospect; A.Foster-Carter - PART 3: FOREIGN POLICY - South Korean Foreign Policy; L.Middleton - North Korean Foreign Policy; J.Hoare - PART 4: KOREA IN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM - The Political Economy of Diplomacy: North and South Korea and the Competition for International Support; B.Gills - The Korean Peninsula: From Regional Order to Security System?; S.Kirby - Conclusion: The Korean Peninsula in Transition; T.Y.Kong & D.H.Kim - Bibliography - Index