The Baobab and the Mango Tree: Africa, the Asian Tigers and the Developing World

Professor Scott Thompson is Director of Southeast Asia Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University. He is the author/editor of eleven books including Ghana’s Foreign Policy: 1957-66 (Princeton University Press); The Philippines in Crisis (St Martin’s Press); and Lessons of Vietnam (Praeger). His articles have appeared in all major US newspapers and in Foreign Policy, International Security, and other journals. During his long academic career, he has held four presidential appointments in Washington DC -- at the Pentagon, the United States Institute of Peace, and the United States Information Agency. He has also been a White House Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Nicholas Scott is Editor of the Washington Monthly. A graduate from Stanford, Phi Beta Kappa with Honors and a triple major in Economics, Political Science and Environmental Science, he worked while at university as the California Coordinator of the Student Environmental Action Coalition, Media Coordinator of the Free Burma Coalition and Student Body Vice President. After graduating, he became a journalist in West Africa and Southeast Asia before being employed by the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington DC. He has published essays in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and many other US newspapers and magazines. This is his first book.