From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in? electoral
engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability …

Very few, if anyone, can argue that Africa's connection and relationship with the West is an
asymmetrical one which cost the continent positive and sustainable developments in the …

Structural theories predict that the cues of social identity, particularly ethnicity, should exert a
strong influence upon voting choices and party support in developing societies with low …

This article examines the impact of diasporas on secessionist conflicts, focusing on the
Albanian, Armenian and Chechen diasporas and the conflicts in Kosovo, Karabakh and …

In recent years, decentralization has become a prominent tool for conflict resolution. Since
the end of the Cold War, the nature of conflict appears to have changed, as evidenced by the …

Nation‐building is an age‐old process being implemented in new ways. It consists of two
separate aspects: state‐building implemented by external actors and identity‐building …

The threats of ethnic, religious, and ethno-religious conflicts have endured in Nigeria and
become increasingly alarming in the fourth republic, which started in 1999. Ethno-religious …

Demands for self-determination—the right to choose—emphasize justice, liberty, and
freedom from authoritarian rule. As a global phenomenon, claims for self-determination …

International Relations (IR) theory has seen a proliferation of competing, and increasingly
trenchant, worldviews with no consensus on how to evaluate their relative strengths and …

" Why?" That was the key question shared by many Western observers when they were
astonished by the wave of Tamil Tiger suicide bombing in the 1980's and 1990's that ripped …