State collapse, insurgency, and counterinsurgency: Lessons from Somalia
By US Army College, John-Peter Pham, Strategic Studies Institute. For more than 2 decades, Somalia…
The UN still can't stop the slaughter of civilians
David Rhode. Twenty years after the world body failed to stop two genocides, it’s still struggling…
Israel's Move to defund the United Nations and the Syrian crises: is this the beginning of the end of the UN?
Simon Adams. For five bloody months, the 250,000 civilians of rebel-held eastern Aleppo were…
Misaligned Interests of Developed and Developing Countries As Contributory Factors To A Culture of Dependency And Underdevelopment In Africa
Developing countries, since the end of the Second World War and the unset of the “Cold War,” have…
Beyond anecdotes: Getting to the heart of human smuggling
Ottilia Anna Maunganidze. As global migration – primarily of people from the Middle East and North…
The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy and Economic Management of Oil Exporting Countries
Benn Eifert, Alan Gelb and Nils Borje Tallroth. Introduction. Most mineral exporters, and in…
Dominance Of The Informal Economy in Africa
Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer. Abstract. We examine the productivity of…