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Policy Challenges to Democratization in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
This paper contends that the future of Palestinian governance requires more than technocratic fixes. Palestine is increasingly besieged, externally by the genocidal campaign in Gaza and the enduring Israeli colonial control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), and internally by authoritarian fragmentation within the Palestinian political system. The current configuration of governance operates through elite…
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Arab Women’s Inclusiveness: Navigating Terrains of De-Democratization and Conflict
This paper surveys the landscape of women’s inclusion in Arab politics since 2011 and to analyze the status of gender relations in Arab authoritarian domestic politics. It identifies three interrelated trends that have variously unfolded across the region: the general retreat in women’s bottom-up mobilization, a separation between women’s political leadership and the democratic question,…
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After Degradation: A Roadmap for U.S. Democratic Repair
This report assesses democratic degradation in the United States as President Trump’s second term marks its first anniversary and proposes a framework for recovery grounded in the sequencing logic of post-conflict peacebuilding. Because established frameworks for re-democratisation in advanced democracies remain underdeveloped, the report adapts insights from a field that has systematically addressed phased institutional…
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International Law Meets an Age of Impunity
Image: Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks at UPEACE graduation ceremony after being conferred a Doctorate degree in Peace, Governance and Development in Somalia, 2 December 2022. Source: Atmis Somalia / Wiki Commons On 26 January, the UN Security Council convened a high-level open debate on “Reaffirming International Rule of Law.” Chaired by Somali President…
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Modi’s Monopolists: Labour and Capital in a Broken Democracy
This report examines the case of India, where the balance between labour and capital has moved decisively against labour, breaking the back of one of the most potent forces of democratisation. Countries where workers’ unions are hit the hardest by neoliberalism tend to offer the right-wing movements the most fertile ground. India’s broken democracy now…
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