"This is a compilation of essays on a swathe of subjects: economics, politics, law, finance, education, media, military, international relations, focusing on public policy in an emerging economy, in a key African state. Put together in one neat volume, they are at once original, as they are full...

"After a modest increase in Metro fares in Santiago, Chile, last October, twenty Metro stations were simultaneously set on fire. The fare increase was the tipping point of years of social malaise. Days later there were more than a million protesters on the streets. The people of Chile were...