Jakarta 1965 and Santiago 1973

There was regime change in Indonesia in the mid-1960s. And there was regime change in Chile in the early 1970s. Those were times before the term ‘regime change’ became fashionable. But the consequences of what transpired in Jakarta and Santiago in 1965 and 1973, in that order, are yet being...

The network of professors behind Bangladesh's revolution

Bangladesh recently experienced a student-led anti-dictator uprising that resulted in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fleeing the country on August 5, 2024. The movement was initially sparked by university students demanding reforms to the quota system in civil service.Despite the government's subsequent reforms, the protest escalated into violence. Hasina's brutal crackdown...