Often recommended as a means of ending intractable civil wars, power-sharing may in fact be least likely to work when it is most needed.
About the Author
Ian S. Spears is assistant professor of political science at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. He is currently coediting a volume on the phenomenon of “states-within-states” in the developing world.
After a long and bloody civil conflict, Burundi has established a new democratic regime. Does its tenuous but hopeful example hold lessons that might help its troubled neighbors?
What some elites in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand portray as “unity” is nothing more than a corrupt bargain meant to cheat voters of their right to decide their country’s political…
