Abstract This article investigates opposition to the competitive authoritarian regimes in Montenegro (1997–2020), North Macedonia (2006–2017), and Serbia (2012–). In each of three countries, parties face or have faced challenge competing on an electoral playing field that is structurally skewed favour incumbent. The articles explore question which circumstances been able contest dominant partie...

This article offers a new analysis of how the Third Reich’s Foreign Office reported on anti-fascist activities in Union South Africa during 1930s. Based letters, dispatches and reports written by German legation official representatives Africa, reveals discusses Nazi officials followed reacted to activity Africa. The demonstrates perceived movements analysed them as part rising global anti-Germ...

Humanity has never benefited more from the ocean as a source of food, livelihoods, and well-being, yet on global scale this been accompanied by trajectories degradation persistent inequity. Awareness spurred policymakers to develop an expanding network governance instruments, catalyzed civil society pressure public private sector, motivated engagement general consumers constituents. Among local...

As tourists become more politically conscious, the number of boycotts grows. Despite their proliferation, tourism rarely succeed. This study explores why reject in context mega-events that are often subject to boycott calls. The paper focuses on attempted 2019 Eurovision Song Contest Tel Aviv, Israel, by Palestinian activist group BDS. Qualitative and quantitative insights from a questionnaire ...

In 2003 five northern Nigerian states boycotted the oral polio vaccine due to fears that it was unsafe. Though the international responses have been scrutinised in the literature, this paper argues that lessons still need to be learnt from the boycott: that the origins and continuation of the boycott were due to specific local factors. We focus mainly on Kano state, which initiated the boycotts...