Tag: Regimes & Governance
236 Articles
- Human Rights & Development
Constitutional Courts, Democracy, and Judicial Independence in Europe
Although the first constitutional court was created in Austria in 1920, these institutions did not begin to disseminate across the European continent until after the Second World…
April 28, 2020
- Society & Culture
State Authority Restoration in the Central African Republic: The Striking Gap Between Its Past, Its Potential, and People’s Expectations
The vibrant academic debate on state authority restoration demonstrates how crucial the issue is to the endurance or abatement of conflict. Joel Migdal investigates how state…
April 27, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART III: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies
Women’s roles and contributions to SSR Women can foster local ownership of SSR by facilitating dialogue between the local community, policy makers, and the security sector. In…
April 24, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART II: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies
Changing patterns in labor participation Women’s labor participation may increase during the conflict to fill the roles previously played by men. However, women tend to perform…
April 23, 2020
- Human Rights & Development
PART I: The Post-Conflict Window: A Critical Opportunity to Advance Women’s Participation in Post-Conflict Societies
Post-conflict reconstruction is not merely remodeling bridges and roads, but in fact refers to the transition from conflict to peace by rebuilding the affected country’s, …
April 21, 2020
- Global Governance
Peace in Northern Ireland: A Model for Ending Wars?
The accord was hugely significant, not least because it was so unexpected. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, television news in the United Kingdom and Ireland would feature reports…
April 16, 2020
- Science & Technology
Responding to Water Vulnerabilities at Home and Abroad
Affordability is one of the most subjective measures used by water regulators and utility managers charged with providing household drinking water. In the United States, for…
April 14, 2020
- Global Governance
Tropical Forests and Climate Change Mitigation: The Decisive Role of Environmental Governance
In terms of deforestation control, Brazil’s trajectory in the last two decades is a good example. Five countries around the world (Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo,…
March 20, 2020
- Student Review
A Review of “Region-Making and Cross-Border Cooperation: New Evidence from Four Continents” by Elisabetta Nadalutti and Otto Kallscheuer
The below seeks to give the flavor of Nadalutti and Kallscheuer’s argument, as any justified account of their work can only be achieved by reading the book in full. They…
March 13, 2020
- Society & Culture
The Ties that Bind: Tribes and Borders in the Gulf
The non-ruling Dawasir tribe, for instance, helped determine the “line in the sea” between Bahrain and Qatar. Eighty years ago, the broken boat of a Dawasir tribesman was…
February 28, 2020