Power Shifts

‘If we lose Istanbul, we lose Turkey’: Will Erdogan’s prediction about his party’s fate come true?

As a rival party clinches victories across the country, could the Turkish president’s term be coming to an end?

Gary M Grossman, The Conversation
· Jul 15, 2019 · 11:30 pm
Setbacks to Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and Angola’s Dos Santos: Africa’s old men may finally be fading away

Are we witnessing the end of an era in which dictators stayed in power for decades?

Chris Saunders, The Conversation
· Nov 21, 2017 · 09:30 pm
Qatar blockade: Saudi Arabia’s strategy to push for a regime change in Doha seems to be backfiring

The emirate has proved resilient despite being cut off for about five months.

Christopher Davidson, The Conversation
· Nov 08, 2017 · 09:30 pm