Predicts that East Asia, with its remarkable diversity of political regimes, economies, and religions, would likely be the critical arena in the global struggle

Comparative analysis of case studies across East Asia provides new insights into the relationship between state building, stateness, and democracy.

East Asian democracies are in trouble, their legitimacy threatened by poor policy performance and undermined by nostalgia for the progrowth, soft-authoritarian

Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.

Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that