Global Governance & Politics

Melissa Foye fills out her ballot as she votes in the U.S. presidential election at the National Guard Armory in Smithfield, North Carolina, U.S. November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Chris Keane - HT1ECB81E4Y70

How to prevent winner-takes-all democracy

Thursday, August 23, 2018

FILE PHOTO: Democratic Republic of Congo's President Joseph Kabila addresses a news conference at the State House in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo January 26, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe/File Photo - RC1158813D80

Africa in the news: DRC elections, violence in eastern Ethiopia, and Mozambique refinancing

Saturday, August 11, 2018

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China's President Xi Jinping, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Brazil's President Michel Temer pose for a group picture at the BRICS summit meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 26, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings - RC1715A90800

Africa in the news: BRICS summit aftermath, South Sudan power-sharing agreement, and Zimbabwe election prep

Saturday, July 28, 2018

From Summits to Solutions

Edited by Raj M. Desai, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas, and John McArthur

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In defense of a reasonable patriotism

William A. Galston

Monday, July 23, 2018

An EU flag and an U.S. flag are pictured in front of the German Finance Ministry before a meeting between German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Berlin December 6, 2011. REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - BM2E7C61DV401

Can multilateralism survive?

Monday, July 23, 2018

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“To destroy the liberal world order”: Trump, Putin, and the imperiled trans-Atlantic alliance

Friday, July 20, 2018

A tattered American flag flies at sunset over a military veterans' cemetery outside of Knoxville, Iowa December 31, 2011. REUTERS/Rick Wilking (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) - GM1E8110M1U01

Chaos from order

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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Liberal institutionalism—its threatened past, its threatened future

Tana Johnson and Andrew Heiss

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

A woman votes at a polling station in Kibi, eastern region of Ghana and stronghold of presidential candidate Nana Akufo-Addo of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), December 7, 2012. Ghanaians choose on Friday who will run one of Africa's most stable democracies as a surge in oil revenues promises to boost development and economic growth. Ghana has earned a reputation as an oasis of stability and progress in West Africa, a part of the world better known for civil wars, coups, entrenched poverty and corruption. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (GHANA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS) - GM1E8C71DSM01

Politics, policy, and implementation: The ‘Ghanaian Paradox’

Cadman Atta Mills

Wednesday, July 18, 2018