Tag: Regimes & Governance

242 Articles

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

Society & Culture

High Expectations: Chile’s Path Toward a New Constitution

Nothing is Perfect—Appearances Can Be Deceiving It often happens that a country’s reality, when viewed from abroad, looks very different from the way its own citizens perceive it…

November 26, 2020

Society & Culture

Domein Verklaring: Colonial Legal Legacies and Community Access to Land in Indonesia

Exactly 150 years since the passing of transformative agrarian laws by the Dutch colonial government in 1870, the now-independent Republic of Indonesia is still grappling with…

November 25, 2020

Global Governance

Indo-Pacific Needs the Third Pole, ASEAN+1

The United States and China seem to be competing on every front in their recent disputes over the WHO, WTO, 5G, outer space sovereignty, and trade. The matter of regional…

November 24, 2020

Conflict & Security

“The Internet Federalist Papers”

At a time when US democracy buckles under pressures and fissures straining the body politic, The Federalist Papers offers a foundation to help reassert norms and practices…

November 11, 2020