Everyone's saying it: 'Democracy is fragile' in the United States. But a political science scholar says that has always been the case.
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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.
Tiny Guyana hoped to see unprecedented wealth this year as ExxonMobil's offshore wells began pumping out crude. Instead, it got a pandemic and political strife. Other oil states are struggling, too.
South Africa’s numerous interventions in Lesotho contribute to the acrimonious nature of its political culture.
Spain's proposed coalition could succeed, even without a majority in parliament.
Our current politically turbulent times in the US are difficult – but not unusual. History shows that fragility is the norm. Get used to it. What is unusual are moments of calm.
The billionaires, business leaders and other elites who gathered in Davos praised the president's policies, yet research on the politics of economic growth suggests it's too soon to celebrate.
Politics in Lesotho can look incredibly complicated, with a mish-mash of competing political parties and repeated military interventions. It’s a mess, but it’s not that hard to unravel.
When penning his novel 'Demons,' Fyodor Dostoevsky was influenced by political turmoil in Russia. But his impulsive, crass antagonist bears a striking similarity to the GOP's candidate for president.
One of the many intriguing ideas of the Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, was this: the limits of my language means the limits of my world. Does this explain the failure to see the gathering gloom…
A growing field of policy analysis now focuses on reducing armed violence. Remarkable consensus has emerged at high policy levels around the basic elements of an approach to reduce violence.
South Africa's homicide rates have declined consistently since democracy, but remain among the highest in the world. They are about four times the global average at more than 30 per 100,000 people.
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Director, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Senior research fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Lecturer, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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investigadora postdoctoral, Diego Portales University
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Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, Professor of Geography, Clark University
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Adjunct Researcher at the Center for Mining and Sustainability Studies at the Universidad del Pacífico (Peru) and PhD Candidate in Geography, The University of Melbourne
