Traditional chiefs have a special ability to organize collective responses to local problems in many communities.

Sudan's weakened legal infrastructure and its enduring respect for the rule of law remain the country's best hope for achieving sustainable peace and justice.

Africa's informal transport sector is likely to continue to drive mass mobility well into the future and remain central to urban economies and the production of new city forms.

Africa was long seen primarily as an importer of global cultural forms, but it is now on the verge of becoming a major exporter of popular culture to the world.

Decolonization has reemerged as a compelling vision of a better future.

All of these actions reflect the ideological commitments of the BJP and its desire to fundamentally alter the country's constitutional dispensation.

This introduction of religiously based citizenship is a move away from the constitutional concept of citizenship introduced in India in the mid-twentieth century.

[E]ntrenched class interests and social inequalities rooted in religion, caste, and gender have made the transition slow and uncertain.

The huge disparity between the well-resourced, cosmopolitan capital, Kathmandu, and the still very basic living standards in other parts of the country remains glaring.

Although the country has made gains over the past two decades in terms of electoral democracy, guarantees of individual equality and liberty have weakened.

The splendid new campus in downtown Budapest will in all likelihood feel eerily quiet in the coming years—a forcibly abandoned cathedral that was devoted to our precarious belief in an open and argumentative future.

[T]he historical record remains bitterly contested in the former Yugoslav lands, and none of the tribunal's findings has promoted reconciliation.