Why post-settlement settlements?

Article Abstract:

The decaying trajectory of democratization in South Africa represents a kind of settlement failure, resulting from the main parties in the transition having come to the table with incompatible cultural paradigms of negotiation. Durable post-settlement settlements would require the prominence of parties mandated to pursue reconciliation, not hegemonic control.

South Africa

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The reality of Muslim exceptionalism

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For democratization of Muslim-majority states, there must arise a modus vivendi between Islam and a social system in which individual freedom and social and political pluralism are accepted. The inducements of participation in the global economy may also affect Islamic political movements, as seems to be happening in Turkey.

Saudi Arabia

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Travails of the European raj

Article Abstract:

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) needs a government by international experts rather than democratic domestic politics. Outsiders participate more in shaping the political agenda in BiH, which has become a norm throughout Eastern Europe as governments aspire to join the European Union.

Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Imperialism

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