Written by lookingbeyondbordersDecember 21, 2012

Why Are So Many Asian Countries Run By Families?

In the United States, it’s the Kennedys and Bushs; in South Korea, it’s the Parks. On December 19, South Korea elected Park Geun-Hye as president — but she’s not just the country’s first female head of state, she’s heir to a controversial political legacy. Her father, Park Chung-hee, was South Korea’s dictator in the 1960s […]

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Written by lookingbeyondbordersDecember 16, 2012

Tunisia’s Islamists See A Solution That Egypt Desperately Needs

A casual observer of the Arab world will most likely have concluded that the experiment in adapting political Islam to democracy has already failed. Almost two years ago, as the Arab revolutions began in Tunisia, it seemed a foregone conclusion that political pluralism on a western model would take the place of the ageing autocrats […]

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Tunisia’s Islamists See A Solution That Egypt Desperately Needs

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