Western media does not cover much about Mongolia. Most Americans likely know about Chinggis (Genghis) Khan and the Mongol Empire, yurts, and Central Asian steppes. Geopolitically, they might know …
India’s informal workers are talking. Federalism forces their leader’s to listen. By Amalia Perez @ Brown University.
Informal workers—those laborers who, by definition, are "employed in enterprises that use power and employ fewer than 10 people or do not use power and employ fewer than 20 people "— comprise a …
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: Honduras, Bolivia, and Executive Aggrandizement in 2017. By Amalia Perez @ Brown University.
Honduras, the will of the Honduran people, and the state of the country's democracy are — as we speak — under attack by the country's president, Juan Orlando Hernández Alvaro. A 6 PM curfew has been …
Want to Stop Media Polarization? Think About Editorial Policy by Artur Avkhadiev @ Brown University
We talk a lot about polarization of free media in the U.S. and around the world. In doing so, we mostly focus on how we consume news — for example, through preferential viewing of cable channels or …
So you want to weaken your civil society? Cut off its foreign funding. By Victor Brechenmacher @ Brown University
On Saturday, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill forcing all foreign-funded media in Russia to register as 'foreign agents.' The move echoes a 2012 Russian law asking the same of …
“Recalibrating” African Militaries: A new democratic hope for Burkina Faso after all? by Bradly Knox @ University of Memphis
From Enigma to a Stigma A column written for Foreign Policy magazine asks, ever so frankly, Why Are Africa’s Militaries So Disappointingly Bad? A variety of explanations could be drafted to explain …