Regimes & Governance

Tunisia is on a path toward autocracy. President Saied’s consolidation of power since his suspension of parliament in July 2021, the continued absence of a Constitutional Court, and the muted…

Three factors have delayed the consolidation of democracy in Tunisia and explain the country’s recent political crisis: ideological polarization, overemphasis on consensus, and an immature party system. The forms of…

The world order has undergone tremendous changes since the U.S.- and USSR-led Olympic boycotts during the Cold War. The growing political influence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has led some scholars…

Since the 1990s, social protests have spread around the world, helping to consolidate fledgling new democratic governments and advance much-needed economic and political reforms. These protests have also destabilized weak…

The road to Brexit began with an emblazoned bus promising great prosperity if Britain left the European Union. Five years later a bus was ablaze in Belfast. Riots in Belfast,…

This article analyses the behavior of Brazilian institutions, in particular Congress and the Supreme Court, in reaction to attacks and threats…

The failure of scholars to recognize the agency of children in political spheres matches the failure in practice to engage children when developing programs aimed at responding to their specific…

This article highlights Puerto Rico’s energy injustices and efforts to upend harmful, traditional forms of power governance that threaten the creation of decarbonized and decentralized power systems that advance self-determination.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a human rights crisis, threatening the rights to health, food security, housing, dignity, and equality. Across the world, including in South Africa, the pandemic reveals the…

In the Fall of 2020, the forty-four day long Turkey-backed Azerbaijani offensive in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) region is the most recent case of an “illiberal peace” outcome. The most…