This four-volume collection addresses thematically four broad sets of issues which are essential to understand the political and economic development of the two Koreas in the modern era. Volume I: Conflict on the Korean Peninsula (from the 19th to the 21st century); Volume II: Economic Development in North and South Korea; Volume III: Political Systems, Legitimacy, and the State in the Two Koreas; and Volume IV: The Foreign Relations of Contemporary Korea.