The literature on rebel governance has fundamentally challenged the idea that
'governance'is the sole prerogative of 'government'. Despite important advances over the …

Abstract While the post-9/11 event has animated how state actors frame terrorism,
contemporary studies have failed to address the politics inherent in proscribing, repressing …

Background Primary health centres (PHCs) in Nigeria suffer critical shortages of health
workers, aggravated by chronic absenteeism that has been attributed to insufficient …

This paper adopts the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) estimation method to
investigate the moderating role of institutional quality in military spending and the …

Introduction Counterinsurgency (COIN) operations necessitate a multifaceted approach that
considers political, economic, developmental, and security factors in order to achieve long …

Nigeria is home to a variety of terror groups, some of which receive little scholarly or media
attention, but whose violent attacks cause significant casualties and instability. This analysis …

A. Farazmand (ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and
Governance, https://doi. org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4346-1 countries are very central …

Civil unions are legally recognized unions of a same-sex couple with rights similar to those
of an opposite-sex married couple. Domestic partnerships are a form of relationship that …

Lack of integrity and transparency are noticed in all national defence systems in one form or
the other. The Government Integrity Index of Transparency International UK reveals that the …

Mainstream development literature on financial crimes in Africa have focused on the illicit
financial flows from institutionalized and transnational organized crime, such as natural …