Contemporary Africa reveals a range of causes, consequences and responses to conflicts which are increasingly interrelated as well as regional in character, as around the Great Lakes/Horn. Their economic and non-state features are undeniable, leading to some promising possibilities in terms of...

Continuing CIGI's BRICSAM research, this paper questions whether size (economic or population) of emerging economies alone is enough to warrant accommodation in the rules and structures of the global system. The global realignment of states following the resulting power vacuum brought on by the...

Books reviewed: Tobias Debiel and Axel Klein, Fragile Peace: State Failure, Violence and Development in Crisis Regions Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin, Corruption and Anti-Corruption Mark Bovens, Paul T. Hart and B. Guy Peters, Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative Analysis...