Consumption has been largely concentrated in the nation's two major economic hubs, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which accounted for 37 percent of all Vietnamese households with income of more than $22,000 a year
I introduce the term 'middleman minority state' (MM state) to capture this social phenomenon, whereby the state scales up the tactics of the classic middleman minority to the level of a small nation-state. I argue that the uniqueness of Singapore as a polity is not fully reflected in 20th...
*** Polling by the Pew Research Center finds that nearly half of Americans believe the U.S. should be a Christian nation, and over half believe the Bible should replace the Constitution and the will of the people in writing laws for all to follow. Slightly more than 50% disagree with th...
Yet he has decided that personal ambition (he wants to run for president in the future) is more important than the nation’s future. Let’s hope his more honest and more ethical colleagues ignore his desperate pandering for votes. Let’s close by noting that a big benefit of having a ...
The growing presence of women in the Norwegian state and military heralds an epoch-making, worldwide transformation. A key challenge is to explain why institutions which excluded women for more than a millennium no longer promote all-male membership. Thi
The numbers of Western migrants in China have risen dramatically since the 1970s, due to changes in immigration policies which have opened opportunities to foreigners. However, the experiences of these migrants remain mixed in terms of welcome and hostil
This, as Cover (2011, p. 440-443) describes, is “a regulatory technology addressing a national ‘race’ as a whole’ and is “deployed in the name of the nation” to “ensure the economic, cultural, and political status quo” (emphasis in origin). Governments monitor demographics such ...
New York, much like the nation as a whole, is facing myriad challenges: the economic anxiety spurred by rising inflation, the volatility wrought by climate change, an unending coronavirus pandemic, a dispiriting rise in hate crimes, the scorched-earth political warfare that erodes our democratic ...
Footnote23 By leveraging SOF´s specialized training and mobility, they can effectively disrupt enemy operations, gather vital information, and conduct targeted strikes.Footnote24 Consequently, this has the potential to augment a nation’s capacity in countering and reacting to external security ...
In fact, we are always nested within layers of place, from a room, to a building, to a street, to a community, to a region, to a nation, and to the world.” (p. 543). We contend that one key aspect often missing from conceptualisations and research practices within the field is...