Some time ago I wrote about the curious case of Japanese colonial subjects in the Dutch East Indies. The interesting observation is that After concluding a Treaty of Trade and Navigation in 1896, the Netherlands and Japan recognised each other as most favoured nations, and subsequently the Tokyo government pressed the Dutch to accord its […]
Category: Asia
Why Aren’t There More Exclusionary Populists in Asia?
We live in the age of populism, and its global spread has produced a wealth of research and commentary. We now know more about what populism is and how it varies than we did two decades ago, and this emerging body of research is truly global in scope, putting comparativists in conversation with Americanists, theorists, […]
