Monthly Archives: October 2006

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind … Continue reading →

This past week I spent three days in Kiev, as a guest of the Economics Education and Research Consortium (an economics program that is about to transform itself into the Kiev School of Economics), and Expert Magazine, a Russian-language journal … Continue reading →

This is a link to the presentation I gave to a plenary panel “The Clash of Cultures and American Hegemony” (this wasn’t my title) at the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Philadelphia on Sept. 1.  Sam Huntington was … Continue reading →

While people have focused on the difficulty of building democracy in the Middle East, they should not assume its gains are consolidated elsewhere in the world. Asia was the model for how rising incomes and a growing middle class would … Continue reading →