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Tunisia, the Exception or the Expected? By Paige Cook

Tunisia, the Exception or the Expected? By Paige Cook

by Paige Cook | Apr 4, 2019 | Saint Louis University

Tunisia was the first of all the Arab states to experience popular uprisings and political upheaval in 2011. In fact, it was the initial domino to the Arab uprisings. On December 17, 2010 a young vegetable merchant, Bouazizi was repeatedly harassed by police demanding...
Canceled Flight; A Bad Sign for Togo’s Prospective Democracy by Caleb Logan

Canceled Flight; A Bad Sign for Togo’s Prospective Democracy by Caleb Logan

by Caleb Logan | Apr 2, 2019 | Saint Louis University

Grounding Opponents On March 28, 2019, François Boko, a former interior minister of Togo who has been in exile in France since 2005, was prevented from boarding an Air France flight headed for Togo’s capital city, Lomé. The Togolese Ministry of Immigration...
Can the opposition parties in Namibia overcome the political dominance of the SWAPO party? by Katrina Ramkissoon

Can the opposition parties in Namibia overcome the political dominance of the SWAPO party? by Katrina Ramkissoon

by Katrina Ramkissoon | Mar 11, 2019 | Suffolk University

Can a country who has only had democracy for less than three decades already begin facing democratic backsliding? Unfortunately, yes. This is the case for the African country Namibia which just became a semi presidential representative democracy in 1990.  Namibia...
Authoritarians Fight to the Death by Gwenyth Szabo

Authoritarians Fight to the Death by Gwenyth Szabo

by Gwenyth Szabo | Mar 4, 2019 | American University

Authoritarians do not just cling to power, they fight for it until their very last breath. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is one of the many authoritarians currently ruling, and with elections coming up, he is working to guarantee his power for a fifth term despite...
Does Less Authoritarian Mean More Democratic? by Gwenyth Szabo

Does Less Authoritarian Mean More Democratic? by Gwenyth Szabo

by Gwenyth Szabo | Feb 11, 2019 | American University

According to the Freedom House’s 2019 report of freedom levels around the world, it is clear that the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the most suppressive countries in the world with a score of fifteen out of one-hundred. Despite such a low freedom...
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