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Pump politics: Is oil wealth a curse? Perhaps so, but those who run out will not feel blessed
A Financial Times review of Professor Michael Ross' new book  "The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations." Ross is director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Veil of Silence Lifted in Indonesia
Professor Geoffrey Robinson, former director of the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, is quoted in a New York Times article about a new book exposing details of anti-Communist purges in Indonesia from 1965 to 1966. Robinson currently teaches classes at UCLA on the history of Southeast Asia.