User:172

I'm interested in comments on the EXTERNAL links listed below. See: User talk:172/articles

Wallerstein:

• Modern History Sourcebook: Summary of Wallerstein on World System Theory (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/wallerstein)
• Pax Americana is over (http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_julyaug_2002/wallerstein) (by Wallerstein)

Economics:

• WHAT I LEARNED AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS. The Insider by Joseph Stiglitz (http://www.tnr.com/041700/stiglitz041700)
• Commanding Heights with Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_mahathirbinmohamad)
• Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitextlo/int_johnkennethgalbraith)
• THE CASE FOR REDISTRIBUTIVE LIBERALISM (http://www.rh.edu/~stodder/SOVEQ3) An interesting look at the East Asian economies.

China:

• Jiang Zemin's Speech at the Meeting Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China (http://www.china-un.ch/eng/14905)
• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/)
• Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001 (http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/26488) (Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China)
• Chinese Communist Party 16th Party Congress (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/02/china_party_congress/leadership_changes/html/hu_jintao.stm) (Leadership profiles from the BBC)
• Life Story of Jiang Zemin (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/leaders/jzm/jzmhome.htm) (from the People's Daily)
• Hollywood's Tibet (http://members.tripod.com/~journeyeast/hollywood_s_tibet)
• 100 Questions and Answers about Tibet (http://www.tibetinfor.com/question_e/2/013.htm)

Africa:

• Germany Refuses to Apologize for Herero Holocaust (http://www.africana.com/DailyArticles/index_20021014.htm)
• Belgium exhumes its colonial demons (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4460659,00)
• Why Mugabe is right (http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/lf41/na/may00/nacs0501.htm)
• Mugabe is Right, Whites Must Give Up the Land! by Koigi Wamwere (http://www.bbjonline.com/mugabe-is-right)

Misc:

• 'UNDER BREZHNEV, IT WAS BETTER' (http://www.businessweek.com/1996/26/b348133.htm) (from Business Week)
• The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Racism (http://www.fair.org/extra/9903/aei)
• Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations, New York (http://www.iraqi-mission.org/)
• The End of Slavery and Serfdom (http://campus.northpark.edu/history/Koeller/TII/EndSlavery.N) Good chronicle of key dates and events in modern history.

• REAL QUOTES FROM A REAL MORON (http://www.punkvoter.com/quotes) (pertaining to the wit and the wisdom of President George W. Bush)

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Transition (recommended):

• Joseph Stiglitz Lessons and Challenges in Transition (http://www.cnb.cz/_vystoupeni/pdf/mmf_stiglitze.pdf) (Transition in Russia, Eastern Europe)

172's Contributions

Soviet Union/Eastern Europe:

• Leonid Brezhnev Embarrassingly short of biographical content or information on his career. Still a stub article.
• command economy Maybe more information on archetypical planning procedures of the Soviet-type economy is needed.
• Economy of Russia
• economy of the Soviet Union
• History of the Jews in the Soviet Union More chronology is needed.
• History of post-communist Russia More chronology is needed.
• History of the Soviet Union More on post-Stalin years, more chronology.
• Nikita Khrushchev Embarrassingly short of biographical content or information on his career. Still a stub article.
• Soviet Union
• Joseph Stalin Reads like a middle school report.

Latin America:

• Brazil
• coronelismo
• cangaço Very interesting subject matter, especially for those interested in uncovering overly-ignored areas of history, the role of class, and social history. See the talk page.
• café com leite
• Fernando Henrique Cardoso More needed on his policies as president. More needed on his contributions to sociology.
• Integralism
• Fidel Castro Still a very simplistic and superficial work.
• Luís Inácio Lula da Silva More needed on his unique ascendancy to the Brazilian presidency and the election of 2002.
• History of Brazil More needed on the years following the 1964 military coup.
• History of Cuba Still very superficial.
• History of Mexico Still very superficial.
• Luís Carlos Prestes
• Plínio Salgado
• Getulio Vargas More biographical information needed, which is entirely my fault.

China/East Asia:

• China
• Chinese historiography
• Deng Xiaoping
• East Asian Tigers You can never have enough content on this subject.
• Economy of Taiwan
• Four Modernizations
• History of China Stilly poorly-organized.
• History of the People's Republic of China More social history is needed. After all, Chinese society is undergoing the greatest revolutionary transformation within an individual's lifetime in history. Instead, sensationalized political debacles are over-emphasized.
• History of Taiwan
• Hongwu Emperor of China
• Hu Jintao
• Hu Yaobang
• Jiang Zemin
• Kim Il Sung Pretty much a stub article.
• Kim Jong Il
• kimjongilia
• List of Presidents of North Korea
• Mao Zedong Reads like an over-simplified partisan debate.
• Ming Dynasty
• North Korea
• Pol Pot
• Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
• Wang An-shih

Age of Imperialism:

• British Empire
• Colonization of Africa Very Eurocentric. More needed on changes in African society.
• History of Belgium
• History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• History of the United Kingdom
• Imperialism in Asia Very Eurocentric. More needed on changes in Asian societies.
• Leopold II of Belgium
• New Imperialism

European History:

• History of Germany
• Irish potato famine
• capitalism
• Communism
• Fascism An embarrassingly superficial article.
• genocide
• Karl Marx
• Benito Mussolini Too much WWII trivia, not enough on his key role in the rise of fascism.
• Protestant Reformation Due to my shortcomings, the history stops at the 1530s. I'll add the rest soon.
• World War I
• World War II

US History:

• History of the United States Not yet a cohesive article. Some sections are strong. Some necessary sections aren't even there.
• Great Depression

Others:

• appeasement
• Saddam Hussein
• Robert Mugabe Serious NPOV problems.
• neoconservatism (United States)
• personality cult Some case-studies might be helpful.
• privatization