by chloe | Nov 16, 2017 | Africa
How did Zimbabwe get here? What is going on? What is likely to happen? The short answer is a combination of short-term factors, and long-term trends, economic structural pressures, political policy choices, and personal power agenda. Read this extract from Robert...
by chloe | Aug 7, 2017 | Imperial and Postcolonial History, Regions, The Commonwealth
by Dr Maria Mut, Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies Two classical physics theories perfectly apply to the current situation in Gibraltar. The first has been attributed to Heraclitus: ‘Everything flows, moves and nothing lasts forever’. The second one...
by chloe | May 16, 2016 | The Commonwealth
by Dr Balasubramanyam Chandramohan PhD, FRSA, FHEA, ICWS Senior Research Fellow Bank Holidays are a good time to let some thoughts break through normal routines of academic life. As I sit facing across the window, with a magnolia tree in full bloom and not many yards...
by chloe | Feb 22, 2016 | Africa, Human Rights, The Commonwealth
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, ICWS The 18th February saw long-anticipated elections in Uganda, where the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) faced his stiffest opposition in his 30 years in office. With...
by laura | Dec 2, 2015 | The Commonwealth
By Dr Eva Namusoke, Postdoctoral Research Officer, Institute of Commonwealth Studies After months of campaigning in the quiet corners of diplomatic offices, online on social media and in speeches from Gaborone to Valletta, the Commonwealth heads of government voted on...
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