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Frederick Z. Brown

Frederick Z. Brown is associate director of the Southeast Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is also a fellow of the Johns Hopkins University Foreign Policy Institute. He is the author of Second Chance: The United States and Indochina in the 1990s (1989) and of numerous articles on Southeast Asia and U.S.-Asia relations.

Democracy in East Asia

"Asian and non-Asian authors debate the desirability of democracy in East Asia… The two editors… do an excellent job introducing the issues, ideas, and approaches of the fifteen authors."—Foreign Affairs