Dave Bengardi, Author at Berkeley Political Review

Berkeley Political Review

Stories from Dave Bengardi

Aung San Suu Kyi and The Politics of Power in Burma

Power, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Aung San Suu Kyi was once the world’s most famous political prisoner.

China’s Debt Conundrum

President Xi Jinping and the standing committee. Analyzing China’s perilous macroeconomic position. As Martin Wolf of the Financial Times recently

We Need to Talk About Sovereign Debt

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, a key figure in sovereign debt restructuring. Featured image source: World Economic

The Indonesia Experiment

Analyzing the tension between political popularity and economic growth in Indonesia. Indonesia, as some scholars such as Professor Steven Fish

Why the Paris Climate Pact is a Big Deal

And why the hype should be contained. Global politics in general tends to stick to the same issues, whether it

The Reformation Conundrum

Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali is wrong. Islam does not need a reformation. The rise of ISIS has created a number of

Singapore’s Challenge to Democracy

Henry Kissinger, the great American statesman of the 70’s, once wrote, “One of the asymmetries of history, is the lack

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