Sudan’s conflict didn’t break out because of the UAE and Saudi Arabia – but local actors felt able to go to war because of external support.
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Over the past year, Myanmar’s military junta has been enforcing mandatory conscription, targeting men and women of working age.
Our research suggests companies look to foreign aid as a signal about whether or not to invest in post-war countries.
The Sudanese army is tapping into nationalist and xenophobic sentiments to gain domestic support and distract attention from its actions and failures.
More than 6 million Syrians fled the country after it descended into civil war in 2011.
Syria faces real challenges. A look at the research on post-Arab Spring challenges offers some answers for a region wracked by many crises.
The ongoing political crisis in Mozambique is rooted in history. Frelimo abandoned the path to true democracy 40 years ago and became increasingly repressive.
The Islamist group had previously pivoted away from global jihadism and toward {local government} attaining local power?.
The themes in the hit television series echo the social and political issues that the state has grappled with for decades.
The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, any less critical.
The United States has a long and storied history of presidential election results being contested.
Fully implementing the principles of a ceasefire agreement is critical to post-war recovery in Ethiopia’s north.
A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s civil war.
The US maintains close to 1,000 troops in Syria and supports Kurdish groups in the northeast and some opposition groups in the southeast.
Keeping the United States together meant more than defeating the Confederacy. Lincoln first had to unite a fractured North.
Tehran is supplying weapons to the Sudanese Armed Forces as they fight a paramilitary group for control of the nation.
Abortions happened in Arizona, despite a near-complete abortion ban enacted in 1864. But people also faced penalties for them, including a female doctor who went to prison.
Hopes for a peaceful resolution are fading as the Sudan civil war blazes into a second year.
Haiti will be able to emerge from the crisis it is in if it has a strong public administration and co-ordinated international aid from countries that respect human rights.
Messi will not start a war in China, but this is not to say that football lacks political relevance.
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