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Months after an influence-peddling scandal led to her impeachment and days after she faced questioning by prosecutors, former South Korean president Park Geun-hye has been arrested and jailed.
If the polls are correct, Park’s likely successor, to be elected on May 9, will be the leader of the liberal Democratic Party of Korea, Moon Jae-in. He will face some serious domestic and foreign policy challenges involving China, Russia and Japan, as well as North Korea, says Craig Mark.
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Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women's University
Beyond her own personal humiliation, the ramifications of Park’s fall are already reverberating from domestic South Korean politics into the fraught geopolitics of Northeast Asia.
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Politics + Society
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Mikayel Zolyan, Yerevan State University of Languages and Social Sciences
Armenia's upcoming election should advance the country's transition from presidential to parliamentary system. But President Serzh Sargsyan may have a hidden agenda to retain power beyond his term's end.
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Loïc Trégourès, Université de Lille 2 – Université de Lille
Serbians go to poll on April 2. Will the country's trend of illiberalism and authoritarianism continue its three-year run?
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Ashwanee Budoo, University of Pretoria
African countries are bound by continental law to put aside funds for the protection of women's rights, but very few have managed to put their gender-budgeting guidelines into practice
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Arts + Culture
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Chris Thurman, University of the Witwatersrand
Most other African countries have a less fractious or problematic relationship to Shakespeare than South Africa does.
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Science + Technology
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Petr Matous, University of Sydney
Mobile phones are often touted as technology that can help bring economic benefits to the poor. But the benefits to those living in rural and remote areas without other infrastructure are limited.
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