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Amid all the changes that have taken place since countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America became independent in the 1960s/1970s, a stark reality has persisted: very few of those newly independent countries have ‘caught up’ or achieved structural transformation. This has entrenched a lasting gap in living standards between rich and less industrialised parts […]
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State Matters began with a life rupture, not a theoretical puzzle. Before it became an intellectual project, it was something I lived through—watching political events tear through ordinary life. For me, a Palestinian who grew up in Iraq during the 1980s, my life and that of my ancestors were shaped in no small ways by […]
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Political arguments often appeal to fundamental moral intuitions about right and wrong. Politicians highlight the moral basis of their views and positions. For example, in the context of the recent U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, Senator Steve Daines explicitly appealed to morals in his post on X saying that he “support[s] President Trump’s actions […]
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In 2012, Zambian President Michael Sata launched “Link Zambia 8000,” pledging 8,000 kilometers of new roads. Billions flowed from China, the World Bank, and OECD financiers. A decade later, less than 10% was completed. The new tarmac clustered in the Northern Province—a ruling-party stronghold—while the opposition’s Southern Province remained a patchwork of dusty tracks. As […]
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For much of the past decade, corporations occupied a very visible place in public life. They spoke after Charlottesville and January 6, opposed the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, intervened in immigration and voting debates, and redesigned internal policies—from reproductive healthcare to gun sales—in response to political change. In the process, the boundary between economic […]
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Beyond the northern, leafy outskirts of Nairobi lies the peri-urban terrain of Kiambu County – a dormitory suburb of Nairobi, home to impoverished towns where unemployed youth gather, and where smallholders living on meagre patches of land struggle to make ends meet. This region is now being transformed by Nairobi’s rapid urban expansion, and not […]
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Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked many in the West. So did Hamas’s surprise attack on southern Israel in October 2023 and Israel’s response of massive violence and ethnic cleansing. For all the talk in policy circles about a “rules-based order,” most academic observers, liberals as well as realists, were caught […]
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Let me describe the activities of an organization leading advocacy for liberal democracy in Zambia in recent years. When politicians spoke of changing the country’s constitution to end presidential term limits, it organized a civil society coalition to protest. When the police threw the opposition leader in jail for four months on charges of treason, […]
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