World Politics Review
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - 07:45
As in other parts of the world, most prison systems in sub-Saharan Africa are abusive. Routine and bureaucratized abuses are widespread throughout the region. This article looks at the challenges facing the continent’s prison systems, using case studies from several countries to better understand the possible paths to reform.
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 07:56
Of the 10 countries with the highest homicide rates, eight are in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region is likewise home to 34 of the world’s 50 most violent cities. The social and economic impacts of those levels of crime are massive, and, as a result, governments and private sectors in Mexico, Brazil and, more recently, Guatemala and El Salvador are looking for new solutions. They have sought advice from two familiar sources in American policing: former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and current New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton.
Monday, March 9, 2015 - 10:22
Astana will attempt to mitigate some of the potential domestic costs by moving up the country’s presidential election, scheduled for late 2016, to this April. But while that may help squelch potential momentum for an already meager opposition, it will do little to stay the fallout for the country’s fiscal plummet.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 10:59
Deadly clashes this week at a Cairo stadium between soccer fans and riot police point once again to the malignancy of police violence in Egypt, which helped spark the protests that toppled longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak exactly four years ago today.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 06:55
The $1 billion is also far short of the $15 billion dollars, over a four-year period, that Guatemalan officials believe the region needs in order to create the conditions whereby their people will no longer need to leave for the U.S.
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 06:10
Despite a cease-fire in July and a United Nations mission in September that raised hopes of restoring order, the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) flared up again last month.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 07:16
The departure of Alasania, popular at home and widely respected abroad, has raised questions about the durability of Georgia’s pro-Western foreign policy. But although Alasania spearheaded badly needed reforms in the Defense Ministry and was regarded as a guarantor of pro-Western policies within the coalition, his departure is unlikely to disrupt Georgia’s foreign policy—for now.
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 05:51
Last week, opponents of Blaise Compaore, the long-serving de facto dictator of Burkina Faso, launched a series of demonstrations that have quickly led to a new government headed by Lt. Col. Isaac Zida. While this was a somewhat softer military coup than old-fashioned ones where officers marched civilian leaders out and shot them, it was a coup nonetheless. Washington is now scrambling to make sense of it.
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 06:10
Last month, three high-ranking Rwandan military figures close to President Paul Kagame were arrested and charged with so-called crimes against state security. The military purges have fueled fears of a political crisis for Kagame with dissension among the ranks of his party and backers in the army.
Friday, June 20, 2014 - 06:48
This special report reviews [Nigeria's] challenges, and the responses to them, through recently published articles.