by Anna Thorner | Jan 2, 2024 | University of Pennsylvania
In recent years, Ecuador has witnessed a complex interplay between democracy and the rise of populism, a phenomenon that has captured the attention of political analysts and scholars alike. As a nation historically rooted in democratic principles, Ecuador’s political...
by Lucas Aguayo-Garber | Mar 15, 2022 | Brown University
Through the first two months of 2022, Canada has been in the midst of one of the most unforeseen political stories to emerge in years, a Vaccine mandate protest which has grown so confrontational in just one month that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the...
by Falan Walker | Feb 22, 2022 | Boston University
Political appointments within bureaucracy are usually not headline worthy- unless they are controversial in nature. Former U.S. president Donald Trump appointed a litany of controversial figures to senior positions, creating a storm of criticism; perhaps for just...
by Olivia Bauer | Dec 3, 2020 | University of Georgia
Rising terrorist attacks are continuing to threaten the fledgling Burkinabè democracy. After Burkina Faso overthrew its authoritarian leader Blaise Compaoré in 2014 and elected Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in 2015, the country was full of hope with its first civilian...
by Alexandra Ross | Apr 2, 2020 | Boston University
2024. The year Vladimir Putin is supposed to step down from power after more than two decades of serving as both President and Prime Minister. After rising to power in the 1990s as a former-KGB-spy-turned-deputy-mayor, Putin was named Prime Minister in 1999....
