...e an independent national identity – continue to seek and demand the maintenance of peace across the Taiwan Strait. Moreover, as shown in the nationally broadcasted public debate, the candidates were split on the issue of the 1992 Consensus and the Taiwan Consensus. The 1992 Consensus, supported by Ma, is an agreement between the Chinese and KMT-led Taiwanese governments that they would maintain “One China [with] two names.” Tsai, on the other ha...
from Wikimedia Commons This April marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the conflict in Bosnia, which carried on for three and a half years from 1992 until the Dayton Peace Agreement in late 1995. The violence that followed the April 1992 recognition of Bosnia as a country independent from the Serb-dominated then-Yugoslavia claimed the lives of over 100,000 Bosnians, Serbs, and Croats – and included the constant siege of the Bosnian ca...
...is the EU’s “consolation prize”, a dismal reward for the EU’s contribution to the world. My initial reaction upon seeing this award was joy. Once my (very short-lived) emotion dissipated, and as I remembered that this was not 1992 but 2012, I started considering that this was nothing but a somewhat kind Norwegian shout-out to a neighbor in distress. Had the award been given 1992, there would have talk of the European Union’s glorious purpose, of...
...single end. This is the historicist view most notably espoused by Marx. Historicists claim that history develops along “inexorable laws of historical destiny” towards a determinate end. One of them, Francis Fukuyama, wrote in 1992 that Western liberal democracies had reached the “end of history” in terms of sociopolitical development. I wonder what he’d say today. A better view of an ideal democracy is perhaps Karl Popper’s “Open Society.” Popper...
...neo-conservatism—a logically predictable intra-party power struggle. The Heritage Foundation’s Stuart Butler, who now heads its Center for Policy Innovation, wrote two critical white papers—the first in 1989 and the second in 1992—both proposing healthcare reform centered around a requirement that all individuals buy insurance. The National Review’s Ponnuru may be correct that the iconic conservative magazine never formally endorsed the mandate i...
...ississippi River, this is both a possible outcome and a probable one. But Missouri is not, necessarily, a red state—though it will become one if it continues to be neglected by Democratic campaign strategists. MO went blue in 1992 and 1996. Perhaps more tellingly, Obama’s 2008 loss was statistically irrelevant: the president lost by 0.1% of the vote, and could legally have ordered a recount. It’s possible he didn’t even truly lose the state in ‘0...
...e election. And he’s up by and average of 2-4 points in all three of those states. Bill Clinton is the only candidate to have lost a state after being up more than 2 points, with less than two weeks to go. And it was Texas in 1992. Was Texas ever really gonna go blue? So forget Gallup, forget the national polls. You can even forget Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, and New Hampshire (all states Obama has leads in). Remember: Ohio, Wisconsin, and Nevada....
...lobe watching the match on TV. In this sense, Barcelona seems to identify with its Catalan roots more today than in the past thirty years. The truth, however, may be more complicated. Barcelona won their first European Cup in 1992 under Dutch playing legend Johan Cruyff, anointed an honorary Catalan for his exploits as a Barcelona player and manager, as well as for his famous proclamation that he chose Barcelona over Madrid because he could not p...
...l Foundation for Election Systems (IFES), have 1,500 consultants in 35 countries and work with big names such as Stanley Greenberg, the consulting firm dedicated to “spreading democracy” that helped Bill Clinton’s election in 1992. Similarly, Joseph Napolitan, who worked on John F. Kennedy’s campaign in 1960, is also attached to IFES. Ties between the government of a consultant’s country of origin and the consultant are at times undeniable. For i...
...orce, so it’s no wonder the fight against oppression has been and remains central for them and their union. In 1985 the CU workers went on strike and won a $125,000 fund to combat racism, favoritism, and sexual harassment. In 1992, they won a pay-raise and an increase in the child care subsidiy to $50,000. The union has consistently fought for more equality and they have won, and they show us all how women and men of all colors can unite, that we...
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