by Anagha Kadambi | Mar 27, 2018 | American University
Tunisia was thrust into the international spotlight when a protest movement that swept the nation led to the resignation of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the longtime dictator of the country, on January 14, 2011. Tunisia has served as a model of how effective civil...
by Evelyn Kennedy | Mar 25, 2018 | Ohio State University
Donald Trump both gets a lot of flak and creates a proud identity for himself as a political outsider and former reality star. Off the screen and into the Beltway, he played on this “outsider” characteristic as a way of connecting to voters who felt that they were...
by Nicole Wells | Mar 25, 2018 | American University
Just before the Hungarian national election in 2014, Prime Minister Victor Orban declared his intention to build an illiberal state in Hungary. Orban said the “Hungarian nation is not a simple sum of individuals, but a community that needs to be organized,...
by Cierra Carafice | Mar 23, 2018 | Ohio State University
Watch out Namibia, or Big Brother may be watching you. While Namibia has been steadily moving towards a completely free democratic state, new surveillance technologies and a history of corruption threaten to bring about democratic erosion and produce a stealth...
by Garrett Rethman | Mar 23, 2018 | Ohio State University
In South America’s leading democracy, there is no escaping the rule of democratic law. Uruguay, a small nation wedged between Argentina and Brazil, is the gold standard of democracy within South America. The country’s democratic success has been described as a...
