Tag: Regimes & Governance
240 Articles
- Society & Culture
Rohingya Refugees and the Urgency of Solutions
The Rohingya refugee situation goes back decades. While the mass influx of some 866,000 Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh which began in August 2017 was shocking, it…
April 20, 2021
- Global Governance
The Failure of Governance in Nigeria: An Epistocratic Challenge
At the end of the Cold War, African civil society movements striving for more democratic governance began to challenge authoritarian regimes on the continent. Declining living…
April 12, 2021
- Global Governance
Hungary’s Transformation and the Complicity of the EU
Hungary has received international attention in the last decade for being the first Member State of the European Union (EU) and the forerunner of democratic transition in East…
April 11, 2021
- Human Rights & Development
India and Latin America: Moving from Transactional to Permanent Healthcare Partners
On January 22, less than a week after India began its own COVID-19 vaccination drive at home, the Serum Institute of India shipped two million doses of the Covidshield vaccine…
March 18, 2021
- Society & Culture
An International Perspective on Observing US Elections
The Role of Election Observers Election observation can play an important role in promoting transparency and accountability during an electoral process by providing independent…
March 3, 2021
- Science & Technology
Stemming the Flow: The United States Needs a Strategy to Address China’s Strategic Exportation of Digital Authoritarianism
As the Chinese economy grew exponentially over the past couple decades, so did its capacity to support technological innovation. China’s tech giants have flourished, responding…
February 25, 2021
- Global Governance
Marooned Democracy: Climate Change Demands Management, Not Solutionism
Imagine a ship on the ocean with no destination. The goal of the sailors is to individually thrive and for the ship to be safe. They have only recently joined in this cooperative…
February 5, 2021
- Global Governance
Antarctic Geopolitics: Emerging Cracks in the Ice?
The Antarctic: Peace and Science After two years of negotiations, the Antarctic Treaty was signed on December 1, 1959, by twelve states and entered into force on June 23, 1961.…
February 3, 2021
- Student Review
Synthesizing Theory and Practice in Scheyer and Kumskova’s “Feminist Foreign Policy: A Fine Line between ‘Adding Women’ and Pursuing a Feminist Agenda”
The article begins with a strong argument to identify patriarchal norms in standard foreign policy. The authors explain that, despite growing cultural and ideological,…
February 3, 2021
- Conflict & Security
The Algerian Counter-Revolution or the Obsolescence of Authoritarian Upgrading
When looking at the trajectory of the Algerian Hirak—the peaceful revolutionary mobilization that led to the resignation of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in 2019—one…
February 2, 2021