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Quiescence in Malaysia and Singapore,” pp. 257–63; and Steve Glain, “Malaysia’s Grand Social Experiment May Be Next Casualty of Asian Crisis,” Wall Street Journal, April 23, 1998, p. A15.

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20. These statistics are from Ganguly, “Ethnic Policies and Political Quiescence in Malaysia and Singapore,” p. 261, and K. S. Jomo, “A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia,” in Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, eds., Essential Outsiders: Chinese and Jews in the Modern Transformation of Southeast Asia and Central Europe (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1997), pp. 237–57, especially p. 244.

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21. Thomas Sowell, Preferential Policies: An International Perspective (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1990), p. 49.

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22. See Murray Hiebert and S. Jayasankaran, “Formative Fury: Affirmative action policies enacted after riots 30 years ago still play a vital role in fostering racial harmony,” Far Eastern Economic Review, May 20, 1999, p. 45.

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23. Ibid., p. 45.

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24. Sowell, Preferential Policies, pp. 49–50, and Jill Eyre and Denis Dwyer, “Ethnicity and Industrial Development in Penang, Malaysia,” in Denis Dwyer and David Drakakis-Smith, eds., Ethnicity and Development (Chichester and New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996), pp. 181–94.

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25. See Sowell, Preferential Policies, pp. 15, 53, 57, 74–75, and Myron Weiner and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, India’s Preferential Policies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), p. 147.

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26. On this point, see the excellent essays in Manuel Antonio Garretón M. and Edward Newman, Democracy in Latin America (New York, Paris, and Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2001). See also Mariano Tommasi and Andrés Velasco, “Where Are We in the Political Economy of Reform?” Policy Reform 1 (1996): 187, 220.

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27. Minxin Pei, “Is China Democratizing?” Foreign Affairs, January/February 1998, p. 68.

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28. Ibid.

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29. Fareed Zakaria, “How to Save the Arab World,” Newsweek, December 24, 2001, p. 22.

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30. As reproduced in Jonathan G. Katz, “Muslims Caught in the Middle,” Sunday Oregonian, September 30, 2001, p. B1.

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31. Abdolkarim Soroush, “Tolerance and Governance: A Discourse on Religion and Democracy,” in Reason, Freedom & Democracy in Islam, Mahmoud Sadri and Ahmad Sadri, trans. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

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32. Zakaria, “How to Save the Arab World,” p. 22.

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33. See Linda Y. C. Lim and L. A. Peter Gosling, “Strengths and Weaknesses of Minority Status for Southeast Asian Chinese at a Time of Economic Growth and Liberalization,” in Daniel Chirot and Anthony Reid, eds., Essential Outsiders, pp. 285–317, especially p. 293; Michael R. J. Vatikiotis, Indonesian Politics under Suharto (3d ed.) (London and New York: Routledge, 1993), p. 41; and Jomo, “A Specific Idiom of Chinese Capitalism,” p. 252.

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34. Leah Makabenta, “Indonesia: Ethnic Chinese Economic Success Fuels Racial Tension,” Inter Press Service, March 25, 1993.

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35. Naomi Klein, No Logo (New York: Picador, USA, 1999), pp. 327–28.

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36. As reported in Peter Waldman and Jay Solomon, “As Good Times Roll, Indonesia’s Chinese Fear for Their Future,” Wall Street Journal, June 5, 1997, p. A18.

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37. See Robert G. Gregory, The Rise and Fall of Philanthropy in East Africa (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992), pp. 43–65, especially pp. 55 and 205, and “Building Capacity,” Business in Africa Online, available at http://www.businessinafrica.co.za/kenar.html.

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38. See Peter Baker, “An Unlikely Savior on the Tundra,” Washington Post, March 2, 2001, p. A1, and John Lloyd, “A miracle worker,” Financial Times, January 6, 2001, p. 1.

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39. As reported in Baker, “An Unlikely Savior on the Tundra,” p. A1.

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40. See Anthony DePalma, “In Mexico City, A

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