GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
The 'Fairway Theory of History' Appears to Hit the Mark
Oct 15, 2018 | 09:00 GMT
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Highlights
- In 2009, Richard Haass, head of the Council on Foreign Relations, put forward the 'fairway theory of history,' an observation that the number of golf courses in a country roughly parallels its openness.
- He used golf course distribution on the Korean Peninsula, with hundreds of courses in South Korea compared with just one in the North, to bolster the idea.
- The theory appears to hold true for China, where the number of courses declined after President Xi Jinping began his power consolidation efforts.
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