Authoritarian Regimes & Africa

Eritrea has lived under United Nations economic sanctions for more than ten years without any notable impact on its politics or economy....

Significant debate has surrounded Russia and China’s political and economic activities in Africa recently, ushering in what some have called a new Cold...

Joseph Siegle reviews Samuel Ramani’s Russia in Africa:  Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? (Hurst, 2023). It is often said that since the...

In recent years, Africa has been courted by a growing list of countries, however, it is arguably China that has been more...

This excellent piece first appeared with our friends at Lawfare. Check out their great website here. In August 2022,...

The fall of communism marking the end of the Cold War was supposed to have made the world forever safe for the...

Since the wave of independence in the 1960s, African countries have faced numerous instances of debt distress in which they could not...

Heading into Zambia’s August 2021 elections, many international observers warned that the country, often held up as an example of resilient multiparty...

To gain insight into Russia’s governance model in Africa, one only need look at the experience of the Central African Republic. Russian...

The assignment was tough but do-able. The brief: to shoot a documentary film about the activities of the Wagner Group, a notorious Russian mercenary...