The Status of Nigeria’s February 25 Elections

Elections and Democracy, Headline, West Africa

Edi­tor’s Notes: Nige­ri­ans go to the polls on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 25 to elect the coun­try’s next pres­i­dent. The top three con­tenders in the elec­tion are Peter Obi, rep­re­sent­ing the Labour Par­ty, for­mer vice-pres­i­­dent Atiku Abubakar who is rep­re­sent­ing the Peo­ple’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party(PDP), and Bola Tin­ubu, rep­re­sent­ing the All Pro­gres­sive Congress(APC) par­ty. Cur­rent Pres­i­dent, Muham­madu Buhari…

Putin’s attack on democracy is working. Just look at Europe.

Around the World, Politico EULeave a comment

Putin’s attack on democ­ra­cy is work­ing. Just look at Europe. As win­ter approach­es, cracks in the West’s sup­port for Ukraine are start­ing to show. By Matthew Kar­nitschnig Illus­tra­tion by Ann Kier­nan for POLITICO BERLIN — It was a scene that has played out on city squares across Europe for months: jar­ring eye­wit­ness accounts of the war…

The day Tunisia’s democracy died

Brookings Institution, SpotlightLeave a comment

As for why so many Tunisian sec­u­lar­ists and liberals—who might have oth­er­wise been expect­ed to defend democracy—found them­selves tempt­ed by Saied’s strong­man rou­tine, part of the expla­na­tion lies in the Mid­dle East­’s long­stand­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic dilem­ma. Appre­ci­at­ing democ­ra­cy in the­o­ry is dif­fer­ent than lik­ing its out­comes in prac­tice. In Tunisia, as in much of the rest…