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.
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We evaluate a 'girl-friendly' primary school program in Burkina Faso using a regression discontinuity design. After 2.5 years, the program…
For the enormous crowds who gathered in Tahrir Square over the past few days, the military’s announcement abrogating the new constitution…
The Benghazi controversy’s return to Washington’s raging partisan wars continues to portray our political culture at its worst.
So many…