Author: Paul Staniland | Journal of Democracy

Paul Staniland is professor of political science at the University of Chicago, nonresident scholar in the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and nonresident senior fellow for Asia Studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He is the author of Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse (2014) and Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation (2021).

Why South Asia’s Regimes Keep Falling

Paul Staniland

The government of Nepal has become the third South Asian government to collapse amid mass protests in three years. It will take more than elections to restore stability. Young protesters want to see real change.