by Sam Wilkin | Oct 5, 2004 | Blog
Of the Asian crisis economies, Indonesia has suffered the longest and rebounded most slowly. Last month’s free and peaceful elections firmly established the country – the world’s largest majority-Muslim state – as a functioning democracy. But can it bounce back to its...
by Sam Wilkin | Sep 20, 2004 | Blog
Microsoft’s success in the U.S. market is uncanny and ongoing. But in countries on opposite sides of the world, things sometimes go wrong for the wizards of Redmond. Brazilian authorities have announced plans to convert five federal government ministries from...
by Sam Wilkin | Sep 14, 2004 | Blog
In their new book Holding China Together (Cambridge, 2004), Barry Naughton and Dali Yang assemble a formidable team of specialists to peer into the black box of Chinese politics. Herewith a review and the implications for China’s future. “Municipal officials in...
by Sam Wilkin | Sep 7, 2004 | Blog
The American Political Science Association, meeting in Chicago, assembled six of the world’s top scholars in the field of electoral studies to forecast the US presidential election. Their verdict? Bush, probably. The Panelists: Helmut Norpoth (SUNY Stony Brook) Brad...
by Sam Wilkin | Aug 31, 2004 | Blog
Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, has just been arrested on charges of conspiring to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial where? “The United States has not posted an ambassador to Equatorial Guinea since...
