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Rama Salla Dieng argues that Senegal's 2026 anti-gender legislation — raising prison sentences for same-sex relations to ten years — is not a cultural or religious phenomenon but a political displacement strategy by a government in fiscal crisis, operating through patriarchal governance structures w
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Ethan Woolf Moñino argues that bandit groups in Northwest Nigeria have built an alternative economic system that extracts revenue through territorial control and systematic taxation. Banditry is not a cultural or ethnic phenomenon but a rational, profit-seeking enterprise filling the governance vacu
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Sara Caria and Stefano Ghinoi apply social network analysis to AidData to show that Chinese development finance in Africa is differentiated and evolving — not monolithic. The Belt and Road Initiative marks a structural turning point, while natural resource endowments are not the primary driver of Ch
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March 2026 bulletin on AI governance in sport, institutional design, and implementation standards.
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This article has been editorially revised to match IOCSS scholarly English standards. Problem framing. The widening gap between institutional rhetoric
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