April 13th Sudan General elections Sudan’s presidential and parliamentary elections were Sudan’s first elections since the secession of South Sudan in 2011. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the country’s longtime leader, was ...
March 28th Nigeria Presidential elections Nigeria itself represented one of the most crucial electoral processes within the entire continent. With a population of more than 177 million evenly divided between Muslims ...
Introduction – African Elections Each and every country in Africa has got a completely different and unique political life and record. Each time an African country experiences an elections period, ...
By Philip Bobbitt I don’t envy the officials in Washington who are tasked with forming a plan to resolve, or at least mitigate, the crisis in Syria. Like the punch line ...
By Ian Morris “No-one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise,” Winston Churchill observed in 1947. “Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all ...
Summary The Netherlands doesn’t make international headlines very often, but its recent moves to prepare for a radically different European Union have started to garner attention. On Nov. 18, a ...
By Ian Morris Last week, a visit to the London School of Economics gave me the opportunity to participate in some fascinating and important discussions on everything from the origins of ...
Forecast The security architecture of the Caspian Sea will change as states such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan develop their navies independently of Russia, their biggest military benefactor. Neither of those ...
The Arab spring that spread throughout the last years in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria didn’t seem to effectively reach the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In fact, the ...
The Arab spring that spread throughout the last years in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria didn’t seem to effectively reach the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In fact, the ...