African Union: A New Frontier for Challenging Drug Prohibition?
By Dr. Joanne Csete, Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations’ Global Drug Policy Programme. Africa is frequently highlighted in international media as the new frontier in the war on drugs –...
View ArticleEthno-Religious conflicts and The Voices of the Past
By Bala Mohammed Liman, PhD Candidate School of Oriental and African Studies Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria. All these African countries are noted for the violence that has become part of their most recent...
View ArticleExpert Interviews: Governing the Global Drug Wars
In these videos twelve world leading drug policy experts address questions about the international control system: Why have international drug policies proved so resistant to change? Is there hope...
View ArticleIs Africa the new Persian Gulf? Not yet
By Raj Verma, Africa Programme at LSE IDEAS and PhD Candidate in the Department of International Relations, LSE Oil prices shave increased dramatically since the beginning of the new millennia due to...
View ArticleAmerica’s Move in Niger
By Dr. Carl LeVan, Assistant Professor at the School of International Service, American University. When scholars, African governments, and civil society leaders said the U.S. Department of Defense’s...
View ArticleModern Slavery: Why dehumanizing the ‘Other’ concerns all of us
By Simone Datzberger, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of International Relations, LSE On a continually shifting priority list of issues to be eradicated globally, modern slavery has slowly but steadily...
View ArticleChina’s Potential Mediation Role in the South Sudan Conflict
By Laura Barber, PhD Candidate in International Relations at the LSE. Talks are still ongoing to reach a ceasefire in South Sudan, where nearly 10,000 are estimated to have been killed since the...
View ArticleEgypt: Towards an Algerian Scenario
By Dalia Ghanem-Yazbeck, research analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Center. It is hard to watch the events unfolding in Egypt today without drawing a parallel with the Algerian situation in 1990....
View Article2014 LSE Africa Summit: A Call Home
In the first of a series of posts on African entrepreneurship in the lead-up to the inaugural LSE Africa Summit, LSE’s Preston Ideh details how the organisers of the Africa Summit are embracing their...
View ArticleThe Hydra Effect of Terrorism and Al Shabab
By Martha Molfetas, Researcher and Writer currently based in London. Within days of the targeted killing of Al Shabab leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, the group had appointed a new leader, Ahmed Umar Abu...
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