The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall
 

The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall

by Ian Bremmer

Locate nations on the J Curve - left for authoritarian, right for democratic. Then figure out how to force those on the left to open their societies, rather than encouraging them to shut them tighter by further isolating them. The West's isolation of Kim Jong-il's North Korea gives him the cover he needs to extend his brutal regime (the mistake the U.S. made for a long time with Saddam Hussein... (read more)

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Amazing insight! Makes me think that perhaps the reason why our country is in such a state is that because a revolution of such scale had never occured in our country. So much for EDSA1

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