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The New Nepal: A Model or An Outlier?

by Bobby Costello | May 5, 2026 | Salem State University

    Recent uprisings in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Madagascar (just to name a few) have highlighted younger generations’ demands for anticorruption and better political representation. Specifically, the 2025 uprising in Nepal illustrates GenZ’s potential for...

Corruption vs. The Fight for Democratic Resilience: The Threat of Ukraine’s Corruption Scandal to EU Membership and Democratic Integrity

by Ainsley Tischler | Dec 1, 2025 | Northeastern University

On Monday, November 10th, Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies revealed that several of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s long-time associates and other members of the government were allegedly involved in taking roughly 100 million dollars in kickbacks from Ukraine’s...

The Invasion of Ukraine: A Crisis Magnifies a Larger Issue of Internal Instability and Corruption

by Kasey Armstrong | Dec 9, 2022 | Suffolk University

Ukraine is facing a Constitutional Court and corruption crisis that will impact its ability to recover from the devastation to democratic sovereignty caused by Russia’s advances of military action in the nation. The invasion of Ukraine has created an opportunity to...

Fraud in Zambia: Can Investigating Corruption Hurt Democracy?

by Claire Rueth | Oct 14, 2022 | Ohio State University

Zambia’s democracy needs a savior, and many believe that savior just might be the newly elected President Hichilema. Since his election in 2021, Hichilema’s Zambia has seen massive reductions in inflation, the strengthening of their currency, and large...

Slovakia: Corruption, Populism, and Representation Issues; Can Anti-Establishment Movement Change It?

by Cetin Cetiner | Jan 15, 2021 | Koç University

Picture: Left to right; Matovic, Caputova, Fico. Retrieved from https://dam.nmhmedia.sk/image/3d7bd6a9-0365-4bef-969b-92c96faae26d_phpzrlvlq.jpg/1200/630 Slovakian democracy is young and has recent roots coming from the struggle of the 1989 revolution against the...
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