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...strategic points." If Abe loses popularity at home, however, he may instinctively fall back on a more abrasive nationalism. "He took a pretty strong stance on the North Korea issue, and he may have learned the wrong lesson from that, to be a populist on foreign policy," says Steven Vogel, an associated professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley. In today's charged Japanese political atmosphere, that could be dangerous. Few politicians know that better than Koichi Kato, a former secretary-general of the LDP. Once a close ally of Koizumi, Kato had become vocal...
...films by 2012. Production is under way for the first, Iron Man, to be released in May 2008. Marvel's new studio can spend up to $165 million a flick--still relatively low for the production of an action film with sophisticated special effects, warns media analyst Harold Vogel. "And they've got to create excellent stories to stick out in the oversaturated superhero genre," Vogel says. If the studio goes over budget on a film, Marvel could be forced to use some of its own cash or seek out a partner...
...that more clearly than many of the then-voting members of the Harvard Sociology department,” Bearman writes.In fact, many voting members of the department, including Ezra F. Vogel—the same professor who once criticized Skocpol for her divisiveness—did see her talent. Vogel, emeritus Ford researcher professor of social sciences who voted against her, remembers Skocpol for her broad reading and her commitment to her students. Vogel says he gave Skocpol an “A” when she was his graduate student.“Theda Skocpol is very bright...
...joined by Lan Xue, a professor at the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy in Beijing, as well as two Harvard scholars—an emeritus professor, Ezra F. Vogel, and the director of KSG’s China Public Policy Program, Anthony J. Saich—on a panel about “China’s soft power...
...Vogel agreed, pointing to China’s recent offer of a giant panda to Taiwan as an example of its efforts to be liked by its neighbors...