Regimes & Governance

Gaps in health, living standards, and welfare had been growing at alarming rates in many countries before COVID-19 ravaged the world. Since then, the pandemic has increased inequities within and…

Following the German elections in September 2021, Dr. Dieter Dettke, Professor at the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University, joined GJIA to share his…

The Two-State Solution Act proposed by Congressman Andy Levin (MI-09) in late September may have declarative value even if it does not pass. By indicating the United States’ preferred…

Tunisian President Kais Saied has slowly and steadily consolidated power into his own hands since his July 25, 2021 self-coup. While the United States and Europe have taken an increasingly…

Tunisia is on a path toward autocracy. President Saied’s consolidation of power since his suspension of parliament in July 2021, the continued absence of a Constitutional Court, and the muted…

Three factors have delayed the consolidation of democracy in Tunisia and explain the country’s recent political crisis: ideological polarization, overemphasis on consensus, and an immature party system. The forms of…

The world order has undergone tremendous changes since the U.S.- and USSR-led Olympic boycotts during the Cold War. The growing political influence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has led some scholars…

Since the 1990s, social protests have spread around the world, helping to consolidate fledgling new democratic governments and advance much-needed economic and political reforms. These protests have also destabilized weak…

The road to Brexit began with an emblazoned bus promising great prosperity if Britain left the European Union. Five years later a bus was ablaze in Belfast. Riots in Belfast,…

This article analyses the behavior of Brazilian institutions, in particular Congress and the Supreme Court, in reaction to attacks and threats…