Putting Ideas Behind Bars: Here’s Why It Doesn’t Work
Guest post by Christoph Dworschak and Christoph V. Steinert “We tried to bury them—we didn’t know they were…
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Abiy Ahmed Ali, The Nobel Prize, and the Future of Global Democracy
By Timothy Sisk Today, 43-year old Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali was awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace…
Polarization, Populism, and PR: Proportional, Inclusive Elections Appear to be the Key to Countering Social Polarization
By Timothy D. Sisk for Denver Dialogues. The just-concluded elections in Sweden reveal that the vein of populism…
Radicalization in Prison: Historical Lessons for Today’s Challenges
Guest post by Dieter Reinisch. On May 29, Benjamin H. shot four people dead in the Belgian town…
Sri Lanka’s Mandela?
Guest post by Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham and Agatha S. Hultquist. Can one man’s personality overcome a legacy of…
Can Ugandans Achieve True Democracy? The Battle for Systemic Change
Guest post by Erin Mazursky In the lead up to presidential elections on February 18th, incumbent Ugandan President…
The “Resister’s Toolkit”
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues In his article in the May 2015 issue of APSR, Evgeny Finkel…
In Memoriam: Nelson Mandela
By Barbara F. Walter In the early 1990s, I took a class at the University of Chicago where we…
“An Ideal for Which I am Prepared to Die”
By Will H. Moore Fifty years ago South African police arrested Nelson Mandela, the leader of Umkhonto we…