... of California Bruce Cumings North Korea South Korea United States Kim Jong-un Moon Jae-in Donald Trump nuclear weapons denuclearization sanctions Korean War armistice Singapore summit PERSPECTIVE Trump, Kim, and an Uncanny Diplomatic Opening BRUCE CUMINGS 241 After he swept...

... policy experimentation innovation local government Singapore summit China s miraculous era of reform and growth, launched with the creation of special eco-nomic zones in 1980, is one of the best- known examples of how policy experimentation can result in innovation even in a Leninist au...

... places and yearned (usually in vain) to return to them. HONG LIU is a professor of Asian studies and chair of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Tech- nological University in Singapore. They were often perceived as outsiders by colonial governments and indigenous people. From...

... Bridget Welsh Singapore Lee Kuan Yew People's Action Party Lee Hsien Loong social policy government spending benefits nationalism foreign workers ethnic minorities 236 The party Lee founded . . . is grappling with the question of how to hold onto power in the face of a more...

... World War II two friction China Japan Korea North South historical claim revise revision regional order series resurgent nationalism world postwar hitler economies realignment rivalry traitors yalta PRC republic Stilwell Chiang kai-shek Taiwan abe xi Malaya Singapore...

... United States Japan capitalism South Korea Singapore Vietnam ASEAN inequality 26 For all its economic might, Asia remains, overall, so much poorer than the United States that the region will take decades to catch up if it catches up at all. The Asian Century? Not Quite Yet JoShuA kurlAntzick...

... Indonesia Malaysia Philippines September Singapore Southeast Asia terrorism Thailand United States American officials have turned their attention toward Southeast Asian policy- making something largely ignored since the end of the Vietnam War and have declared Southeast Asia the second front...

... in response to the crisis has not. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California depreciation East Asia financial crisis IMF Malaysia Philippines Singapore slowdown South Korea Thailand In the aftermath of East Asia s spectacular eco-nomic...