Economist, May 19, 2016

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(1) Boots—and cash—on the ground | Who Fights, and Who Pays.
http://www.economist.com/news/in ... fights-and-who-pays
("The UN pays countries $1,330 a month per soldier, meaning that peacekeeping is lucrative for poor nations")


(2) Benedict Anderson | Indonesian Scholar; The inner life of a restless intellect.
http://www.economist.com/news/bo ... -indonesian-scholar
(book review on Benedict Anderson, A Life Beyond Boundaries. Verso, April 2016)

Note:
(a) The book is published posthumously. The author died Dec 13, 2015.
(b) "In 1966 he was part of a team at Cornell University that published an influential report on what really happened during the violent takeover of Indonesia in October of the previous year. The report was leaked to the Washington Post and Anderson was eventually barred from entering the country.  He remained cut off from Indonesia for 27 years until the fall of Suharto’s dictatorship."

Cornell Paper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Paper
(a tentative summary was completed on Jan 10, 1966; leaked in a March 5, 1966, article by The Washington Post journalist Joseph Kraft)
(c) "In 1983 his meandering studies and wide reading led him to write the book he is most famous for, 'Imagined Communities,' which explores the enduring allure of nationalism."

The book is what he is known for today.
(d) "Born in 1936 in Kunming, in Yunnan province, to an Irish father and an English mother, Anderson (pictured [in the Economist article] in China with his nanny)"

Benedict Anderson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Anderson
(His father, James Carew O'Gorman Anderson, was an official with Chinese Maritime Customs 海关总税务司)