A review of To Catch a Traitor in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow.
About the Author
Christopher Lingle is an economist who recently resigned his position as a senior fellow in European studies at the National University of Singapore, where he had begun teaching in September 1993.
For the second straight time, voters rejected a presidential candidate with ties to undemocratic Islamist forces, but victorious incumbent Joko Widodo felt compelled to tone down his support for liberalism.
While many of the world’s pseudodemocracies have lately made the transition to “unadulterated” democracy, Malaysia and its leader, Mahathir Mohamad, have successfully bucked this trend.
