"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...

Objectives, background, context -- Population trends in China and India: -- Demographic dividend or demographic drag? -- China-India: a macroeconomic assessment -- Science and technology -- Chinese & Indian defense and defense procurement spending to 2025 -- Conclusions and implications --...