The The People vs. Democracy

David W. Choi, 27, from Princeton, NJ (USA), received his Bachelor’s degree in “Political Science” and “Middle Eastern and Islamic Civilizations Studies” at Colgate University in 2013. In 2018, he obtained a Master's in Political Science at the American University of Cairo where he was in the Comparative & Middle East Politics and Society joint Master’s program with the University of Tübingen. He wrote his Master’s Thesis on elite consolidation during development and state building in Gamal Abdal Nasser’s Egypt and Park Chunghee’s Korea. His interests include comparative politics, development studies, elite politics, nationalism, populism, the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia, etc.