East Asian Prospect: Tale of Three Systems

Issue Date July 1997
Volume 8
Issue 3
Page Numbers 150-55
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About the Author

Robert A. Scalapino is Robson Research Professor of Government emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on the boards of directors of the Asia Foundation, the Atlantic Council, and the Pacific Forum of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Among his many publications is The Last Leninists: The Uncertain Future of Asia’s Communist States (1992).

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