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All three leading candidates have ties to the “Ucedé,” which has pushed a free-market agenda for decades.

As the Sudani administration seeks to improve public services and infrastructure to appease disillusioned citizens, it must break the patterns of Iraq’s post-reconstruction corruption.

This panel discussion, and the second event in this series scheduled for Tuesday, April 5 at 4:30pm (additional details to follow), will address the emergence of new progressive governments in the region, with a focus on Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexíco. PLAS has invited experts and policymakers connected to Latin America to ask about the most urgent challenges that these new governments currently face amidst a world of increasing nativism and economic distress. If the early 2000s saw the em...

In the three decades since the U.S. invasion that overthrew the dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega, Panama has undergone a remarkable transformation. It has remained a stable democracy in an age of democratic backsliding, and its economy has grown faster than that of any other country in Latin America. It is today one of the richest countries in the region and is considered by the UN to be a case of “very high” human development. These accomplishments have not only received little outsid...

Opinion - whoever emerges as the winner of Fiji's general election will be a product of Fiji's series of coups

Whatever the outcome of this year’s election, the next prime minister will likely be someone who first came to power through the barrel of a gun

The Journal of Democracy's January 2022 issue features an exchange on the future of democracy, a collection of essays on the coup in Tunisia, and more.

The Atlantic Populist movements have a knack for sticking around long after their leaders leave office. Getty / The Atlantic Since leaving office, Donald Trump has been acquitted in a second impeachment trial, and has reportedly considered launching a new political party, investing in a social-media app, and, perhaps more predictably, making another run for the White House in 2024. In a statement following his acquittal, Trump declared the trial “yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt i...

Let’s bring the nation with us January 23, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: Stop the nonsense and call Australia Day “Australians Day”. Give us all an opportunity to celebrate the fact that we all live in the best country in the world. It is a fact that Aboriginal people were the first in our country, non-Aborigines developed it and migrants gave it a wonderful multicultural flavour. John Langrehr, Leabrook (SA) I despair that our government simply does not c...