Taiwan’s Unique Challenges

The implicit social bargain that carried many East Asian countries through the Cold War has lost its currency. If the peoples of this region are to secure the blessings of…

If there is going to be a great advance of democracy in this decade, it is most likely going to emanate from East Asia.

Juan Linz’s 1990 critique of presidentialism in these pages was based largely on the Latin American experience. In the last few years, however, four new Asian democracies have encountered presidential…