Hoelscher, Kristian; Taibat Lawanson & Jeffrey Paller (2025) Political Change in African Cities: Transforming State-Society Relations, World Development.

This PRIO Paper examines global conflict trends between 1946 and 2023 using data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2023, 59 state-based conflicts were recorded in 34 countries, the ...

Some of this signaling is likely aimed at shaping the agenda for the much-anticipated high-level dialogue with the United States, but much of it amounts to willful self-deception. Russia’s position of ...

Palik, Júlia; Pinar Tank & Vidar B. Skretting (2025) Education Provision in Rebel Governance: Comparative Insights from Yemen ...

He relies more on the resignation and adaptability of the Russian polity than on a “patriotic” mobilization, but the gradual spread of tiredness with the war may suddenly turn into an explosion of ...

Economic inequality between countries has long been recognized as a key driver of international migration. However, inequality within communities of origin has received far less attention in the ...

Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (2025) PRIO Annual Report 2024. Oslo: PRIO. The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, ...

Russia has praised and promoted multipolarity for many years, but with its depressed economy, disastrous demography, and corrupt bureaucracy, it is destined to be a designated loser in this ruthless ...

The now apparent failure of this game is not only in gaining too little time to ensure a decisive success for the Russian expendable storm platoons on any of the battlefields. The greater failure is ...