Tag: Regimes & Governance
236 Articles
- 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
- Human Rights & Development
Community and Health Governance in Myanmar during and after COVID-19
COVID-19 has exposed the real consequences of continual violence and Myanmar’s need for a strong health system to resolve conflict and instability. Although the WHO lauded…
January 28, 2021
- Society & Culture
From the Bottom Up: A Different Context for the Colombian Drug Trade
On July 20, 2018, more than three decades since my first election in 1986, I returned to the Colombian senate under very different circumstances. The most important difference…
January 20, 2021
- Conflict & Security
A New Type of Threat: Russia, China and Digital Authoritarianism in West Africa
At a compound on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, a group of people post messages to over 200 various social media accounts. Their goal is to spread disinformation about police…
December 26, 2020
- Global Governance
The Disinformation Shift: From Foreign to Domestic
On November 10th, a week after the US presidential election and three days after media outlets projected victory for former vice-president Joseph R. Biden, Secretary of State…
November 28, 2020