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Academic Articles / Publications

What Best Explains Successful Protest Cascades? ICTs and the Fuzzy Causes of the Arab Spring

on April 18, 2013 at 11:59 am ×

It has been 15 years since the last wave of democratization. But as a region, North Africa and the Middle East were noticeably devoid of popular democracy movements—until the early months of 2011. Democratization movements had existed long before technologies like mobile phones and the Internet came to these countries. But […]

Commentary Essays / Huffington Post / In The News

Huffington Post: The Dictator’s Dead Pool for 2013: Will China’s Investments Pay Off in Political Clout?

on January 8, 2013 at 10:38 am ×

(This originally appeared as “The Dictator’s Dead Pool for 2013” on the Huffington Post.)   The world rarely mourns dead dictators. The death of an authoritarian ruler usually means chaos and more suffering for the people they ruled. A year ago I drafted a list of the aging and sickly […]