When Kim Jong-il passed away last December the world waited to see what his successor would be like. Very little was known about Kim Jong-un; even trivial details such as his appearance and age were a mystery. There was much global speculation as to whether Kim Jong-un would...
Recent elections supervised by the military-dominated government have failed to deliver fundamental democratic reforms to Egypt’s political system. The long-awaited parliamentary elections of November 2011 to January 2012 disproportionately favoured Islamist political...
Who runs the show and calls the shots in most countries, the generals or the politicians? The fact that we can even ask this question points to the inherent tension between a country’s military and civilian leadership structures in many countries. Power is a prize to be...
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