https://www.scmp.com/rss/512182/feed Nicola de Jager is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, and co-editor of "Commonwealth and Comparative Politics". She is a nationally-rated researcher, a former fellow of the African Oxford Initiative, editor of "South African Politics" (2021) and author of peer-reviewed articles on South African politics, democracy and good governance, and comparative politics. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Just before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Francis Fukuyama pronounced humanity to have reached “the end of history”, with Western liberal democracy triumphant as “the final form of human government”. In the years since, leading scholars such as the late Thomas Franck, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Georg Nolte (now a judge of the International Court of Justice) argued that there was an emerging right in international law to democratic governance, that liberal internationalism was universally... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3171568/hong-kong-canada-do-i-tell-you-governments-risk-trapping-us-covid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3171568/hong-kong-canada-do-i-tell-you-governments-risk-trapping-us-covid?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Mar 2022 22:45:20 +0000