Peru now has its sixth president in just five years. An expert on Latin American politics explores the country’s political instability and what happens next.
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Written in a breezy and accessible style, How to Stage a Coup is a dazzling compendium of underhanded tactics.
The AU’s first two decades have largely represented a magical, mystical world of unfulfilled expectations.
The AU needs to address two main problems to steer Africa into a prosperous future – the use of unconstitutional means by some leaders to cling to power and disregard for the rule of law.
The fear of domination of one ethnic group or section by another has persistently undermined efforts at democratic consolidation in Nigeria.
Despite the benefits that could come from integration, many African countries remain wary of the process.
Ghanaian footballers chased migration to the US after the removal of Nkrumah as president.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, its leader was immediately labeled “fascist” by Ukrainians and others. A political scientist explains why that label fits.
For the commitment to democracy to regain strength across the Americas, citizens need to become more confident in the integrity of their elections and their elected officials.
The failures of nominally elected governments has denied leaders - as well as the democratic system - a vanguard popular constituency.
Unimpressive democratic conditions and foreign influence in African countries make recent attempted and successful military takeovers unsurprising.
Rawlings was a polarising figure, a person who led two coups in Ghana before twice being elected president in multiparty polls.
Jerry Rawlings found a unique path to legitimise his military rule in Ghana.
Burkina Faso is still in the throes of chaos decades after the assasination of the charismatic president
ECOWAS needs to be decisive in enforcing its protocols and sanctioning members that flout the provisions of its protocols and policies.
From a global perspective, there was nothing unique about the recent raid on the U.S. Capitol. Both Republican and Democratic administrations have backed military coups around the world for decades.
Rather than denigrating other nations as banana republics for their penchant for insurrections and lawless coups, the United States needs to take a long look inward following the raid on the Capitol.
Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, disrupting Congress’s certification of Joe Biden as president-elect. Coup experts explain this violent insurrection wasn’t technically a coup.
After becoming Peru’s third president in six days, Francisco Sagasti must both lead the country into elections and build a better democracy. It’s a test Peruvian leaders largely failed 20 years ago.
Jerry John Rawlings remains the most polarizing political figure in Ghana since Kwame Nkrumah
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Research Affiliate and Senior Analyst, University of Central Florida
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Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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Professor Emeritus of Politics, London Metropolitan University
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Director & Research Fellow, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer (Sessional) in International Relations, Curtin University
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Professor and Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of International Law, University of South Africa
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Professor of Political Science, Nipissing University
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Associate professor, Human Rights Studies, King's University College, Western University
