NTU Mini Course
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Oslo Freedom Forum
On Friday I spent a fascinating day at the Oslo Freedom Forum in Taipei. It was standing room only when I arrived at the ballroom in the Grand Hyatt a few minutes after 10 am. It was a beautiful day -- and a holiday (Mid-Autumn Festival) -- but hundreds of mostly young Taiwanese were settling in for a full day of speeches. Most of the speakers were young, too, and all are … [Read more...] about Oslo Freedom Forum
I Have an Office! And Students! Yay!
I have moved into my beautiful office in the Social Science Building at National Taiwan University. I can't believe they reserve the best views for the visitors, but they do. And I have students. They are taking my 5-week minicourse, "The Rise and Fall of Democracy Around the World." And based on our first class, I think they are from all around the world, too, which is just … [Read more...] about I Have an Office! And Students! Yay!
NTU Mini Course Overview
The Rise and Fall of Democracies around the World The late 1980s was an exciting period for students of comparative politics, as it saw an explosion in the number of countries seeking to become more democratic – including Taiwan. However, several of the newly-democratic nations of the 1980s are now under non-democratic governments once again, and many political scientists … [Read more...] about NTU Mini Course Overview
