"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...

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the idea of a “model of development” was popular among politicians and economists in Kazakhstan. As a result, the country was the first in Central Asia to outline “Asian Tiger” economies as its development “role model” in its development...