After the main Namibian party started alternating candidates between men and women, female representation in the National Assembly nearly doubled.
In 2012, the Chinese Communist Party introduced new rules on officials’ spending – and the local restaurant trade suffered.
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Both countries seem tired of the costs of war and ongoing risks, but successful negotiations will have to overcome deep distrust by both sides.
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The vote to have death by hanging as the default for Palestinians guilty of killing Israelis represents the further entrenchment of a two-tier legal system.
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As before, however, any such move into the country would be fraught with the same risks that have bedeviled past Israeli invasions of Lebanon.
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China and Russia view the latest Washington intervention in the Middle East as a further decline of the United States’ global power.
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Hungarian political scientist Zsolt Enyedi speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how Viktor Orbán lost power to Péter Magyar and what the result means for the European Union.
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Pyrrhus was said to have remarked that one more victory would leave his kingdom ‘utterly ruined.’ Some see echoes in US interventions in the Middle East.
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Tehran and Washington look to different rules to govern their conduct in the key choke point.
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The ideology named after former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez became more authoritarian under Nicolás Maduro. Can the country’s new leader steer it back toward democracy?
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Nations are becoming adept at provocations that fall in the area between routine peacetime actions and open warfare.
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Talk of regime change brings up uncomfortable memories of the chaos after the overthrow of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
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