Publications

On May 20, Chen Shui-bian began his second four-year term as Taiwan’s first president from the former opposition Democratic Progressive Party. Because he had been more assertive on cross-Strait and Taiwan status issues in his campaign than he had...

The post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq being undertaken by the U.S. and its Coalition partners is a monumental task, with numerous factors complicating American efforts and contributing to unrest in the country. Two of the most important of these are...

Democracy’s Limits and Prospects in the P.R.C. The possible sprouts of democracy and the prospects for democratization in the People’s Republic of China were the principal focus for many of the conference’s participants, who approached these questions from diverse...

April 8, 2004, Tashkent, Uzbekistan — The situation here is grim, not dire. We seemingly know five things about the recent terrorism attacks in Uzbekistan: (1) The attacks were preplanned but prematurely implemented with several not taking place; (2)...

The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years. If some ghostly ship, some Flying Dutchman, were transported in time from the year 1600 into the present, the crew would...

In the dark shadow of Islamist terrorist attacks—including in Indonesia and Turkey in 2003—aimed at destroying democratization in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, virtually no attention is being paid to how some religious organizations might be a vital...

In the past decade, federalism has become popular as a way to make sense of the evolving relationship among the legal systems of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and even to describe the internal...

Democratization is never easy. The United States, buffered by two oceans and blessed with an abundance of land, resources, and eager citizens, still required a century of trial and error—including a civil war—to consolidate its democracy. States that have...

The most important development in cross-Strait relations since the late 1980s has been Taiwan’s democratization. A large literature has developed on how this process transformed the island from an authoritarian regime to a thriving democracy, but few scholars have...

Candidate George Bush’s claim that Africa ‘‘doesn’t fit into the national strategic interest’’ has been betrayed by President Bush’s surprising involvement with the continent. In addition to his own July 2003 tour of five African states, almost half of...