Institute of Current World Affairs

  Articles by Andrew Rice  (click title to read article)

6/5/2004
ICWA
Final Report to Member and Trustees
4/1/2004
ICWA
The Trial
3/1/2004
ICWA
The Trial
2/5/2004
ICWA
Taking Account of Recent Misadventures in Congo
12/15/2003
ICWA
Shells
11/15/2003
ICWA
Sewing Dissension
10/15/2003
ICWA
Ghost Town
9/1/2003
ICWA
Thin
8/20/2003
ICWA
The General
6/25/2003
ICWA
The Best of Enemies
5/20/2003
ICWA
The Miracle Man
4/1/2003
ICWA
The Great Rift
2/1/2003
ICWA
UYO 10
1/1/2003
ICWA
The Cotter Pin
12/1/2002
ICWA
Amin’s Shadow
11/1/2002
ICWA
33 Rules of the Road: An American’s Guide To Driving in Uganda
10/1/2002
ICWA
“Found Tribe”
9/1/2002
ICWA
“On the Air”
8/1/2002
ICWA
The Big Man, His Wife and Her Husband
7/1/2002
ICWA
The Prodigal

From the Archive


Trying out loungers at Beijing’s IKEA, 2004


“At first glance, this group may not look so impressive with its collective rear end sinking into the cushions. However, according to political scientists as well as some of my own (middle class) Chinese friends, these are the people who will quite likely determine the future of the country’s political system, and thus, the direction of China as a whole. The basic idea here is that an increasingly wealthy middle class focused on safeguarding its property will be more likely than any other force to push for democratic and legal reforms; you need a bourgeois class before you can have a bourgeois ‘revolution’.” [read newsletter]


—Alexander Brenner

China

ICWA Fellow (2003-2005)