What a Little Liberty Can Do: A Comparative Analysis of the Nicaraguan and Cuban Land Reform Programs

Abstract This paper discusses the land and agrarian reform programs in Cuba and Nicaragua and investigates their success in achieving their proposed goals. It argues that the Cuban Castro government went too far in breaking clientelist oligopolies and ended up erecting state monopolies as an end result which generated a food shortage in the domestic … Read more

Stealing Shahbag: Third Force Dynamics and Electoral Politics in Bangladesh

First published on September 17, 2018.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728018791698Volume: 38 issue: 3_suppl, page(s): 1S-24SSouth Asia Research Abstract The Shahbag Movement, demanding capital punishment for war criminals of the 1971 liberation war in Bangladesh, emerged in February 2013 in Dhaka. This youth-led grassroots movement erupted in response to infuriating establishment party politics as a populist third force, wanting … Read more