A scan of my web stats shows that my recent Academic Job Market Notes post has already received more traffic than any other single post in the past 12 months, and almost twice as many pageviews as its closest competitor. Wow….
There is something of a political dust-up happening in Malaysia right now. At issue is whether Malaysia is an Islamic state. On one side we have Mahathir Mohamad, former prime minister, who declared years ago that Malaysia is an Islamic…
Indonesia has enjoyed a lot of developmental successes over the past 50 years. Yet sometimes you realize just how far the country has to go. Here is one example, using Google Maps to illustrate how hard it is to drive…
Two recent posts about the academic job market for political science PhDs are worth a read: Chris Blattman‘s search committee notes give a good demand side perspective, and Nate Jensen has some useful data on the supply side. As the PS…
Scholars of modern Indonesia like to periodize the country’s political history according to its macropolitical environment. The established periodization looks something like this, with some disagreements about just when the Liberal and Guided Democracy periods began and ended. 1602-1942: Dutch…
This weekend some colleagues and I are hosting a delegation visiting from Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS), the Indonesian central statistical agency. We are hoping to find a way for Cornell to warehouse some of the vast wealth of statistical data…
A new working paper entitled “Trade Competition and American Decolonization” (PDF), prepared for the 2012 IPES meeting and the subject of several previous posts, is now available. I’m happy to be presenting a primarily qualitative paper at a conference that…
