- A fascinating profile of Monica Macías, daughter of Francisco Macías Nguema, the first president of Equatorial Guinea, who was raised in North Korea as a ward of Kim Il-sung. Well worth reading!
- The reason why the recent mayoral election in Russia was fair: to demoralize the opposition.
- More on the recent protests in Sudan.
- The most recent issue of the Journal of Democracy has a number of interesting articles on the Arab revolts. See especially the articles on Egypt's failed transition, Syria's authoritarian adaptations, and the challenges facing the Libyan state.
- Voters in Switzerland to consider a proposal for a universal basic income.
- Weak states and indirect rule in Africa.
- Why the Little Red Book (the "Quotations of Chairman Mao") is out of print, even though more than a billion copies used to be in circulation.
- A new paper on China's "Strategic Censorship" - trying to find the right tradeoffs between censoring too much (and losing valuable information about government performance) and encouraging too much coordination and contestation (the dictator's dilemma).
- Election monitoring and drug testing in sports: a comparison.
- Repression in Turkey.
Good luck on all your end-of-term assignments!
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ReplyDeleteGreat reading on Monica Macias more so when North Korea was one of my allocated countries. The amazing aspect of her article is how she had been moulded to view her nos. 2 Dad 'Kim 11 sung' as some sort of a hero because she remembers hims as someone that provided her & her sisters education at schools for the wealthy, expensive gifts " Omega wristwatch emblazoned with his name, and providing them with a chauffeur-driven Volvo.."! Amazing recollections by a grown women who is now just discovering the 'sins of both her dads'.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Dr Marquez. Its an awesome find.