Why did Germany, Sweden, Britain and the United States build such different welfare states, and what does...
Political History
Long-form essays on political history and theory for postgraduate students of political science, with academic reading lists.
Samuel Huntington described a global wave of democratisation that began in Portugal in 1974. Today scholars debate...
Suharto's fall in May 1998 began one of the largest democratic transitions of the late twentieth century....
For three decades the New Order's account of 1965 was official history. International and Indonesian scholarship has...
Herbert Feith's 'administrators' versus 'solidarity makers' and Daniel Lev's account of the transition remain the classic explanations....
In the weeks before independence, Indonesia's founders debated the basis of the state. The compromise they reached,...
Twenty-nine newly independent states met in Bandung in April 1955. Long treated as a symbolic moment, the...
The collapse of Germany's first democracy between 1930 and 1933 is the classic case of democratic breakdown....
North and Weingast's 1989 thesis linked England's 1688 settlement to secure property rights and cheap state borrowing....
International relations textbooks date the sovereign state system to the Peace of Westphalia. Historians and revisionist IR...
