Political leaders use different tactics to ensure widespread compliance with state policies
and to minimize resistance. Scholarship tends to treat different tactics individually …

The agricultural supply chains (ASCs) are exposed to unprecedented risks following COVID-
19. It is necessary to investigate the impact of risks and to create resilient ASC organisations …

The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in
moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not …

The major threat to human societies posed by undernutrition has been recognised for
millennia. Despite substantial economic development and scientific innovation, however …

This article traces the reign and downfall of Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's longtime autocrat. Like
other autocrats, al-Bashir attempted to prevent coups against his rule by crafting a …

In the next decades, the population is expected to rise by more than two billion people, and
the projections of climate change have been considered as one of the greatest future …

The world's population is increasingly concentrated in cities. Research on urbanization's
implications for peace and security has been hampered by a lack of comparable data on …

Increasingly, decentralization is being adopted by countries in which assumptions made by
formal models of decentralization, such as electoral accountability and population mobility …

Food has been crucial to the survival of regimes since the emergence of early states. Yet
despite its significance, until recently food availability was rarely discussed as a principal …

Politicians and scholars alike have advocated for land reform as a tool to address political
instability and poverty. Yet in many cases of land reform, governments provide land but …