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Corruption & Lawlessness in Nigeria's Unstable Democracy
This short talk explores the causes and consequences of ubiquitous corruption for Nigerian politics. While there is a virtual cornucopia of corruption cases from which...

A Prelude to Studying Nigerian Politics
This short talk offers considerations from which to launch our scholarly pursuit of Nigerian politics. Please support the CoGoPod at Buy Me a Coffee. All donations are...

Iranian Political Culture, Participation, & Socialization
This talk offers some introductory insights into Persian political culture, with a particular focus on political socialization, elite recruitment, and interest articul...

Students Discuss the "One China" Myth
My students discuss my lecture (in the previous episode) on China's long struggle for internal sovereignty. They discuss the key questions raised by the lecture, they ...

Students Debate Chinese Democracy
Students debate the motion: “Western Liberal Democracy Would Be Wrong for China". While they did not have the luxury of choosing their side of the debate, given the ch...

A Prelude to Studying Iranian Politics
This talk offers considerations from which to launch our scholarly pursuits of Iranian politics and concludes by diving into policy challenges that the Iranian regime ...

The "One China" Myth: Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong
This lecture explores China's long struggle for internal sovereignty. Despite PRC claims of being "Zhong Guo Ren" (Chinese People with Universal Values), China is a fr...

A Prelude to Studying the PRC
This talk offers considerations from which to commence scholarly inquiries into Chinese politics before diving into ten policy challenges that the PRC is facing. Pleas...
