More countries than ever are going through the motions, with manifestos, candidates, polling stations and returning officers.

Hasina happens! Fascism happens! Genocide happens! In a political climate such as this, winning a Nobel Prize is apparently ...

The Wilson Center's Michael Kugelman says that for many Bangladeshis, a successful youth-led mass movement has shattered a ...

Rothbard's view of the international system is built upon his consistent view of the state as a coercive institution run by a ...

If a government falls in the world, but Congress isn't around to hear it, did it really fall? Apparently not. The military ...

During this year of global elections, we have seen challenges to democracy, a rise in populism and political violence, incumbent parties ousted and surprising wins and defeats around the world. All of ...

Putin open to peace talks in Slovakia as reports claim North Korean soldier captured - Four Russians accused of helping ...

The example of Turkey is another illustration of how thoroughly ... structural adjustment was between 40 and 50 % at the end of the 1970s; under the military dictatorship that implemented adjustment, ...

For example, in Africa, Boko Haram in Nigeria frames its insurgency ... much like jihadist movements elsewhere. Iraq: From Dictatorship to Sectarian Conflict Iraq’s descent into Shia-Sunni bloodshed ...

To what degree the ability to defer gratification is down to nature or conditioned by nurture is unclear, but what we do know ...

A review of a year filled with headlines that few in the national security and intelligence space could have imagined, one ...

After the dictatorship fell, an alliance government brought together ... the latter and the IMF have systematically lent to States in order to influence their policies. The examples given in this ...