Late Democratization in Pacific Asia
Professor Thompson builds on Barrington Moore's insight that there are different "paths to the modern" world. Thompson's manuscript explores alternatives to the familiar South Korean-and Taiwan-based model of "late democratization." According to that model, political pluralism follows a formative period of ec ...

Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Initiative on Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia's storied past extends more than two millennia. For most of this period, the societies of Southeast Asia have participated in transcontinental civilizational networks and have been noted for their ability to selectively appropriate and adapt the various external influences encountered. This has c ...

Worker Identities and the Origins of Capital in Vietnam
The Vietnamese government legalized strikes in 1995. Since then Vietnamese workers have gone on strike more than 1,500 times. Most of these actions have erupted in factories established by capital investments from South Korea and Taiwan. Far fewer have been reported in factories relying on private investment ...