The Tide Underneath the “Third Wave”

Issue Date January 1995
Volume 6
Issue 1
Page Numbers 52-64
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About the Author

Henry S. Rowen is director emeritus of the Asia-Pacific Research Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and professor emeritus in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.

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