China and the Lessons of Eastern Europe

Like all contemporary nondemocratic systems, the Chinese system suffers from weak legitimacy at the level of regime type. The most likely form of transition for China remains the model of…

Despite the persistent doomsaying about the political consequences of untrammeled international capital flows, financial liberalization may actually contribute to democratic consolidation.

The Chinese Communist Party has been using New Zealand as a testing ground for its strategy of building influence through “united front work.”