Education as social engineering
In contemporary society education systems have ‘politicized’ and ‘hyper-commercialized’ role, following the ‘business model’ footprints, a model that serves only narrow interests and has questionable and uneven returns for its investors. Education’s use by governments as a social engineering tool is an issue connected with the evolving social structure and thus with social discontinuity, and [...]
Crime & economic hard times
It is natural to assume that economic hard times result in higher crime rates. However, that depends on the specific country and specific time period, regime, and above all the duration of economic hard times in relationship with the affluence of times past. The more authoritarian the society, the less the crime no matter how [...]
Asia: What’s in a name?
One of the first things I was required to do upon recently taking over as Director for the Center of Asian Democracy at the University of Louisville was to define the organization’s goals and the strategy. This naturally entailed defining the geographical scope of Asia for the purview of the Center. Such a task however [...]
Merchants and military
In 1980 the group of junior officers took over government in Suriname. Uncanny was the fact that the Dutch government soon after that fact, decided to offer the new regime aid and assistance. One Member of Parliament in the Dutch ‘Tweede Kamer’ said that it was imperative to protect ‘Dutch interests’. But the Dutch government [...]
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