Understanding Military (Non)Support in the Wake of Constitutional Coups
By Kara Kingma Neu and Deborah Avant. Scholars of democratization in Africa have witnessed a troubling trend: an…
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From the Battlefield to Ballot Boxes: How Effective is the United Nations’ Post-War Democracy Promotion?
Guest post by Janina I. Steinert and Sonja Grimm In November of this year, the people of Côte d’Ivoire re-elected…
State Responses to Local Conflict: Providing Security or Protecting Interests?
By Emma Elfversson When violence erupted in late 2014 between local communities in Turkana, Kenya, where oil was recently…
UN’s New Intervention in DRC: Offensive or Inoffensive?
By Lionel Beehner With President Obama just wrapping up his trip to Africa, it’s worth pausing to consider the…
Déjà vu in Central Africa
By David E. Cunningham For the last several weeks, M23, a new rebel group made up of former soldiers…