Regimes & Governance

One of the thorniest counter-insurgency (COIN) issues for states is dealing with captured suspects. Holding them indefinitely as prisoners of war is one option, but this method legally precludes interrogation…

Carbon politics is playing out in oil-producing African countries with lethal consequences. Countries like Nigeria, Angola, Sudan, and South Sudan are conflict-ridden and economically unequal, and, as climate change concerns…

Venezuela continues to buckle under the autocratic rule of Nicolás Maduro. Street protests and social pressure, however, have not succeeded in dislodging the president or bringing about the democratic change…

Elections this spring in Indonesia and the Philippines are powerful reminders of how far democracy has come in Southeast Asia, and how far it still has to go. In Indonesia,…

Brazil’s income inequality is among the world’s worst. The country’s unemployment rate is currently 13 percent, compared to 4.6 percent in 2012, and the number of Brazilians in…

Despite having a smaller indigenous population than many other Iberian-American countries, Brazil’s constitutional acknowledgment of the rights of Brazilian Indians dates back many decades. Indeed, the Constitutions of 1934, 1937,…

On January 2, 2019, President Xi Jinping claimed that China “makes no promise to renounce the use of force” against Taiwan. He made the statement during a speech commemorating…

In September 2018, the South Sudanese government and its opposition groups signed the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS). Because prior peace agreements…

Since his first-annual New Year’s speech in 2012 setting North Korea’s policy priorities, Kim Jong Un has emphasized his commitment to economic development, notably promising his people that they will…

Beginning this week, India will embark upon the largest democratic exercise in history. Nearly 900 million voters will be eligible to cast ballots. They will decide whether to reelect Prime…