Tag: Regimes & Governance
240 Articles
- Global Governance
Doha Conference and Perspectives on UN Peace Efforts for Afghanistan
Introduction In August 2021, the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s government and formed an interim administration. However, political conflicts continued between the Taliban…
June 29, 2024
- Global Governance
What Can Indonesia Learn from Qatar’s Experience in Mediating Conflicts in the Middle East?
Introduction As a small wealthy country flanked by two regional powers harboring mutual suspicion (Saudi Arabia and Iran), Qatar is attempting to assert itself as a force to be…
April 29, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Factoring Ethnicity in Taliban’s Quest for Legitimacy: An Anthropological Rewiring of the Power Structure
Introduction Security, stability, and prosperity in Afghanistan are essential for the region’s economy. The large-scale economic initiatives that run through Afghanistan,…
April 17, 2024
- Conflict & Security
Understanding Africa’s Coups
Military coups in Niger and Gabon in 2023 sharpened the world’s focus on the fragility of rule of law in Africa. There have been nine successful military coups on the continent…
April 13, 2024
- Global Governance
Arriving at a Crossroads: Can Europe Avoid Replaying the Policy Failures of the 2014-16 Migration Crisis?
Less than a decade after what has become known as the 2014-2016 European migration crisis, the European Union (EU) is once again facing a migration emergency. In 2023, more than…
March 21, 2024
- Global Governance
The Collective Security Treaty Organization: A Lifeless, Shambling ‘Alliance’
What is the CSTO? The CSTO is a military alliance that brings together six post-Soviet countries into a mutual security pact. It originated out of the collapse of the Soviet,…
March 4, 2024
- Global Governance
Afghanistan’s Truncated Capacity to Respond to Natural Disasters: Isn’t it Time for the International Community to Step In?
The Disaster-Stricken Country A series of earthquakes in October 2023 in the Zinda Jan and Ghorian districts of Afghanistan’s western Herat province—with one reaching 6.3 on…
February 19, 2024
- Global Governance
How Feminist Foreign Policies Work to Enhance Gender Justice
Since Sweden adopted a feminist foreign policy in 2014, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, and…
February 18, 2024
- Society & Culture
Could Compulsory Turnout Turn Out Something Fresh For Northern Ireland?
Introduction The definition of insanity, so it is said, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Northern Ireland’s democratic dysfunction…
February 12, 2024
- Global Governance
Democratic Recession and the Judicialization of Elections in Africa
At A Glance: The Electoral-Judicial Nexus The assumption that the legitimacy of electoral democracy is contingent and conferred exclusively by the people has been increasingly…
February 3, 2024