A growing number of states have modified constitutionally determined presidential term
limits or adopted a flexible interpretation of relevant constitutional provisions to allow …

Addis Ababa, 27 January 2014. The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union
(AU) gathers for its 415th meeting. The Council expresses its 'appreciation to the Malagasy …

There is strong evidence that we have entered into a democratic recession–where the
quality of democracy is being reversed around the world. As the organisations responsible …

This paper is part of the Charter Project Africa, a pan-African effort focused on the
commitments in the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG) …

International organisations (IOs) are said to command growing levels of authority. But in
studying this phenomenon, scholars predominantly focus on the formal capacities member …

This introduction to the Special Focus argues that more thorough and nuanced
understandings of the past accomplishments and failures of the African Charter on …

The extant critical literature on international interventions has not only discussed liberal
peace interventions from Western subject positions but has also explained its drivers …

Scholars and researchers have debated the impact of coups d'état on African nations since
the first coup in West Africa, in 1963, toppled the Sylvanus Olympio government in Togo. In …

In this article, I introduce a degree of novelty into the scholarship on the nexus between
constitutional identity and the constitutional subject. I do so by pluralizing both the territorial …

Coup leaders often purport to restore constitutional order. During Burkina Faso's 2014
'insurrection', however, Blaise Compaoré's opponents advanced detailed (international) …