'Asian Tigers, African Lions' wins Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014

Asian Tigers, African Lions: Comparing the Development Performance of Southeast Asia and Africa, published by Brill in 2013 and coordinated by the African Studies Centre and the Royal Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), both in Leiden, has won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award 2014! Asian Tigers, African Lions is an anthology of contributions by scholars and (former) diplomats related to the ‘Tracking Development’ research project, in collaboration with scholars based in Africa and Asia. The project compared the performance of growth and development of four pairs of countries in Southeast Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa during the last sixty years. The research project was funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The book has been published in the African Dynamics series.

From the review that appeared in Choice in May 2014: 'As a one-volume, evidence-based response to why Asia has done so well and Africa so poorly, this book has no peer.' Read the entire review. The American Library Association's magazine Choice publishes reviews of academic books and presents digital resources of interest to scholars and students in higher education.

Editors of Asian Tigers, African Lions:
Bernard Berendsen is a member of the Advisory Council on Foreign Relations at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Board of the African Studies Centre in Leiden. He has recently edited four volumes of lectures organized by the Society for International Development (SID).

Ton Dietz is director of the African Studies Centre and Professor of the Study of African Development at Leiden University. He has written numerous policy-oriented articles and books on development issues and was the coordinator for Kenya in the Tracking Development project from 2010 to 2012.

Henk Schulte Nordholt is KITLV Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the VU University in Amsterdam and head of the Research Department of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). His main fields of interest include Balinese history, political violence, the anthropology of colonialism and contemporary politics in Indonesia.

Roel van der Veen works for the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is a part-time Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Dutch Foreign Policy at the University of Groningen. He has published two major books on development issues in Africa and Asia.

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