All Outputs (5)

Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks (2023)
Thesis
Hale, S. Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The street protests that erupted in Ukraine in late 2013 prompted by the government’s sudden pull-back from the process of joining the European Union, leading to the government’s collapse two months later, are widely understood as a pivotal moment of... Read More about Ukraine’s Euromaidan moment and the power of global elite networks.

Recruiting Social Movements Activists to Political Parties: The post-movement Party-Movement Relations in Taiwan from 2008 to 2020 (2023)
Thesis
Kwan, C. Y. Recruiting Social Movements Activists to Political Parties: The post-movement Party-Movement Relations in Taiwan from 2008 to 2020. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Somaliland Social Covenant: An Experiment in Non-State Coexistence (2023)
Thesis
Gordon, M. The Somaliland Social Covenant: An Experiment in Non-State Coexistence. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Somaliland, which emerged from the collapse of the Somali Republic as a self-governing territory, is today considered one of Africa’s success stories, an experiment in locally-owned reconciliation and bottom-up democratisation that confounds scholars... Read More about The Somaliland Social Covenant: An Experiment in Non-State Coexistence.

Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles (2022)
Thesis
Fisher, C. S. Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Political scientists have under-studied those who actually “do” formal politics – politicians, particularly those operating below the level of heads of state. This neglect has been acute in African politics, resulting from, and contributing to, a gen... Read More about Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles.

Introduction: boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt (2010)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2010). Introduction: boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt. In A. Fraser, & M. Larmer (Eds.), Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism (1-30). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230115590_1

Throughout the twentieth century, studies of life on a narrow strip of land in central Africa shaped the way academics understood relations between the rich world and the poor. Anthropologists, economists, historians, and political scientists describ... Read More about Introduction: boom and bust on the Zambian Copperbelt.