Democracy

Tanzania goes to the polls: A new kind of opposition politics?

by Emma Hunter on October 22, 2015

On 25 October, over 20 million people will go to the polls in Tanzania. And for the first time since independence in 1961, and the return to multi-party elections in 1992, there is a realistic

Whose ‘Civic Army’? Ferguson, Policing, and Early American Democracy

by Charlie Thompson on November 26, 2014

The media coverage of the decision to exonerate the policeman who killed an unarmed black teenager has focused on the

How should the USA remember the First World War?

by Sophie Hylands on August 11, 2014

Barack’s Obama’s official visit to Flanders Field American Cemetery in Belgium earlier this year was a suitably sombre occasion, but

25 years after Tiananmen Square: The Long History of Chinese Democracy

by Tehyun Ma on June 4, 2014

Twenty-five years ago today, on the night of 3 June 1989, tanks moved into central Beijing to crush the ‘counter-revolutionary

Abdication to save the monarchy? Juan Carlos I and dreams of a Third Republic

by Matthew Kerry on June 3, 2014

As a historian of Spain's republican past, I watched with fascination as, last night, following news of Juan Carlos I’s

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Tony Benn: Man of History

by Clare Griffiths on March 20, 2014

I never actually met Tony Benn. That’s a shameful thing for an historian of the British left to admit. And I do regret it. There’s really no excuse. He had a reputation for extraordinary generosity