December 2015

Democratization and armed conflicts in post-cold war Africa (1989-2012)

The coming of the “Third Wave of democratization” to Africa in the late 1980s and early 1990s coincided with the dramatic increase of armed conflicts on the continent.  The purpose of this study is to revisit the connection between democratization and occurrence of armed conflicts, and to address specifically the following questions:  To what extent has Africa been democratized since the end of the...

Author(s): Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison