My last post, Malaysia and the Perfect Storm, attracted some attention from the Malaysian blogosphere. Most notably, it was reproduced in its entirety on the blog of Lim Kit Siang, long the elder statement of the opposition Democratic Action Party….
Let’s say that you’re a pessimist about global growth prospects. If so, you’re not alone: Q2 GDP growth in the U.S. is weak, the U.K. is in a double-dip recession, and there’s no end to the Eurozone crisis in sight….
Around this time of year, I find myself writing a lot of emails to people interested in graduate study in Cornell’s Government Department or the Southeast Asia Program. The majority of these emails are directed to prospective applicants from outside…
I have a short new paper following up the theme of unemployment, developmental legacies, and the Arab Spring. Here is the abstract. Many analysts of the 2011 political transitions in Egypt and Tunisia looked to Indonesia as a template or model. Yet…
Eye-catching tweet by @niubi Sina has now shut weibo accounts of Bloomberg, new York times & us government. And yet they enjoy all the benefits of the us capital markets This comes hot on the heels of two interesting pieces…
Via the Monkey Cage and the Freakonomics blog, an article by Luk Van Langenhove in Nature about the future of funding for social science research. Van Langenhove’s argument appears take a return-on-investment perspective on the social sciences, and claims that we ought to…
I’m currently working on an essay that catalogs the limits of Indonesia’s transition as a model for the on-going transitions in Egypt and Tunisia—a topic which has been discussed by Thomas Carothers and John Sidel, among others. In particular, I…
By my calculations, this is the 500th post at Indolaysia. This blog has been up since September 2004, when it was an old and clunky Typepad site. In that time, lots of changes. TP has become Assistant Professor TP, JM…
