From The Washington Post:
Looking back 50 years, the Middle East faced challenges of postcolonial state and nation-building, low per-capita income and heavy-handed authoritarianism. East Asia faced much of the same, yet today has become the epicenter of the global economy. How could similar conditions lead to such disparate outcomes? … Etel Solingen is the Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace Studies at the University of California, Irvine ….


For the full story, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/08/11/a-tale-of-two-economic-trajectories/.