This paper will be part of an interdisciplinary Handbook of Korean Unification designed to provide policy makers with a "blueprint" for a unified Korea. Drawing on lessons from privatization experiences in Germany and Central Europe, the paper outlines a step-by-step approach to the...

If recent history is any guide, the reunification of the Korean peninsula is a more realistic possibility today than at any time since armed conflict ended in 1953. This paper grew out of a three-year interdisciplinary project to provide policy makers with a "blueprint" for a unified Korea....

This Article provides theoretical and empirical support for the claim that organized crime competes with the state to provide property rights enforcement and protection services. Drawing on extensive data from Japan, this Article shows that, like firms in regulated environments everywhere, the...