Tag: governance crisis

  • The Anatomy of State Failure in Eritrea

    The Anatomy of State Failure in Eritrea

    I. The Origins of Authority States do not fail in a single dramatic moment. They unravel slowly, beginning in the quiet spaces where no one imagines politics is taking place. The earliest fractures appear not in ministries or parliaments but in the daily negotiations of ordinary people. A fisherman trading his morning’s catch for a

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  • The Forgotten Blueprint: How Eritrea’s 2001 Party Proclamation Could Rebuild a Nation

    The Forgotten Blueprint: How Eritrea’s 2001 Party Proclamation Could Rebuild a Nation

    Eritrea’s political crisis did not emerge from a vacuum. It is the cumulative product of abandoned institutions, unimplemented laws, and a governing elite that systematically dismantled even the limited frameworks it once claimed to uphold. I use the term elite loosely here, for in the Eritrean context it connotes power without the accompanying attributes of

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  • Nepal: A Lesson for the PFDJ and the Youth

    Nepal: A Lesson for the PFDJ and the Youth

    Every era popularizes certain names—mainly names of rulers and prominent people of the time. Since the nineteen-forties and fifties, the name of a famous person that was often repeated in newspapers and radio bulletins has become popular; parents adopt the name for their babies. My aunt, (who is my cousin, but I called her aunt

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