International Organizations & Democracy: The OAU and Elections

Due to weak opposition parties and presidential dominance, many African countries have not reaped the full benefits of regularly held elections.

On 9 December 2011, incumbent president Joseph Kabila was declared the official winner of the DRC’s deeply flawed presidential election, resulting in a legal president without legitimacy and an uncertain…

In emerging democracies and postconflict countries, improved policing is almost always urgently required. Yet international-assistance efforts in this area pay almost no attention to the crucial need to ensure that…