My academic interests are in authoritarian systems, political corruption, transition economies, and development. My other interests include jazz, photography, anime, and Chinese, Korean and Japanese television dramas. I can be contacted at mail[at]quitacet[dot]net. Leave comments! Or I’ll be sad.
New reader? Start here.
The road to the BOP
Getting a PhD in Saving the World
Why I went to Pyongyang
The backdoor to Zhongnanhai
On 2006
Where are the places in the randomized header image?
Juche Tower, Pyongyang.
May Day Stadium, Pyongyang.
Cheonggyecheon, Seoul.
Bank of Japan, Tokyo.
All photographs taken personally.
What’s with the latin?
qui tacet consentire videtur / he who is silent seems to give consent
- Boniface VIII, Decretals
Because this silence betokened, nay, this silence was, not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
- Thomas Cromwell
The maxim is ‘qui tacet consentiret’, the maxim of the law is ‘silence gives consent.’ If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
- Sir Thomas More
