Political Scientists have produced a substantial body of theory and evidence
that explains variation in the availability of local public…
The prevailing aid orthodoxy works well enough in stable environments, but is ill-equipped to navigate contexts of volatility and fragility…
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The currently intense debate about ‘land
grabs’ or ‘land investment’ in Africa has reinforced the significance
of relations around land…
Book abstract: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new…
Professor Burns discusses this week's extraordinary events surrounding the chaos in Syria and the Russian offer to broker a diplomatic end…
In this period of gloomy economic forecasts, Africa's rise has become a widely discussed international policy topic. The sweeping optimism…
Why do some armed groups commit massive wartime rape, whereas others never do? Using an original dataset, I describe the substantial…
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men…
In the face of a nearly impossible diplomatic dilemma, the US must continue to have an open mind toward Egypt.