Atul Kohli, professor of politics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, partially completed a book comparing the role of the state in promoting industrialization in four developing countries, South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria. He wrote an essay based on this work for the journal World Development and also edited two volumes, one on the state and ethnic conflict in India and the other on the role of the state in managing security problems.