Barbara F. Walter, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Policy & Strategy at the University of California at San Diego, is the author of “How Civil Wars Start: And How ...

In 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, its disintegration was described by various political scientists as the triumph of liberal democracy. In 1992, the American scholar Francis Fukuyama declared ...

In its latest Democracy Index rating, the Economist Intelligence Unit describes the President Goodluck Jonathan administration as authoritarian. In another breath, the Washington Post, in a recent ...

A protest for democracy is held in San Diego to mark the first anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake A ...

The 1999 Constitution as amended is not a democratic document. It’s a decree written by feudalist military generals totally alien to what democracy is all about. The annual observance of Democracy Day ...

An “anocracy” is a hybrid regime, which falls between autocracy and democracy. In its pure liberal form, democracy is a type of governance where rule of law and strong institutions make arbitrary ...

As a war expert on a CIA panel, UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter helped forecast civil wars in other countries. Along the way, she discovered some of those predictors apply to the ...

The United States has long prided itself as the world’s longest continuous democracy. There is, of course, the long-standing debate over whether the absence of universal suffrage in the country’s past ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor - known for his extremely vast vocabulary - on Sunday put out a tweet laced with sarcasm to target the BJP government at the centre by introducing a new word - "anocracy".