by Sam Wilkin | May 25, 2004 | Blog
Attempts by India’s governing party, the BJP, to play up the country’s recent economic success and take credit for it backfired spectacularly. India’s rural poor, it emerged, did not buy the success – much less give anyone credit. So the BJP is out and the Congress...
by Sam Wilkin | May 18, 2004 | Blog
The hype on the Chinese market has reached deafening levels. “If you want to be the world leader in your industry, you must be the leader in China,” said G.E.’s Jack Welch. But a rising chorus of dissenters argue the country’s economy is headed for crisis. So which is...
by Sam Wilkin | May 11, 2004 | Blog
Experts frequently point to Iraq’s past – colonial history, Saddam’s brutality, ethnic rivalries – to explain the current violence. But evidence from similar regimes indicates the causes may lie not in the echoes of the past, but in the long shadow cast by Iraq’s...
by Sam Wilkin | May 4, 2004 | Blog
“For the Turk, freedom is life,” declared Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s founding father, in 1920. But he clearly had something in mind quite different from the democratic and market freedoms frequently praised by US President George W. Bush. For Ataturk, in the name...
