Lest we forget, Mnangagwa and his junta staged a military coup for the sole purpose of wrestling power from Mugabe and the the G40 faction. And before the coup it was Mnangagwa and his junta who had played the major role in creating and retaining the Zanu PF dictatorship. Mnangagwa has n...
I see at least three other types of big corporations that are very important in the United States and who also have a vested interest in military aggression around the world. And that is the information and technology industries, the health industrial complex, ...
Why did Great Britain not have a political revolution in the 18th century? Why did the British East India Company fail? Why did African resistance to European imperialism fail? Why did the Dual Monarchy fail to end nationalist demands?
Far-right western officials could intervene in their own countries, too. The chief threat isn’t from military coups. The closest to that in a democracy recently was January’s far-right Brazilian coup attempt, after which President Lula accused the armed forces of collusion. Notably, the batta...
In India it has not been a change in political institutions that has led to the current growth, but rather the rejection of bad economic policies.5 Acemoglu and Robinson are very focused on what happens within nations. They view growth and success as an internal matter, stemming from ...
Thanks for a very short but informative take on the last 30 years of economic history in the developed world.scott sumner 23. May 2010 at 09:07 Rob, Yes, Both India and China have done much better after the reforms. I focused on developed countries as they are more similar to the US...
with one of the world’s highest fertility rates (5.25 children born/woman), and you have a rapidly growing population. Currently #7 on the country population list, by 2050 Nigeria isprojectedto have 440 million people and have leapfrogged up to #3 on the list, behind only India and ...
and India, have much to teach the Chinese. It is indeed one of the major problems in Chinese legislation to-day how to adjust the relations of the provinces to the strong central authority which is being created. So far very little headway has been made in working out a definite and clea...
“I think a feeling in the officer corps is that the NLD and Suu Kyi had disrespected them, and they were not paying any attention to their views and concerns,” Horsey, the Yangon-based analyst said. “The military commander justified his coup via a manufactured crisis. But it tapped int...