Dankwart A. Rus-tow, in Foreign Afairs (Fall 1979), P.0. Box 2615, Boulder, Colo. 80322.
Since becoming a parliamentary democracy in 1945, Turkey has suf- fered from frequent political deadlocks, military coups, and a severe economic decline. Yet there is very little chance of this Muslim country becoming "anotherIran," says Rustow, a political scientist at the City University of New York.
A large foreign debt is Turkey's most pressing problem. Aided US. technology, the country's agricultural...
Howard Crouch, in World in Indonesia Politics (July 1979), Princeton University
Press, Princeton, N.J. 08540.
In precolonial Java (now Indonesia), sultans protected their rule
parceling out favors among competing factions. Since 1959, Indonesia's
Presidents have tried the same "patrimonial" tactic, without the sul-
tans success.
President Sukarno, whose
"Guided Democracy" replaced In-
donesia's fledgling parliamentary
system in 1959, maintained control
by balancing...
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