Haroon's devlog

People who study or work in international development studies often tend to start from an action-oriented, activist and advocacy perspective...

My undergraduate students commonly seem to think that the world doesn't change very much. Yet last week, between 14 September and 18 Se...

According to polling done for the CBC just before Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked the Governor-General to issue the writ to dissolve Par...

On 5 September Angola went to the polls for the first time in 16 years to elect a new parliament. It is expected that the governing Popular...

On 6 September in Islamabad Pakistan's 702-member electoral college, consisting of members of the upper and lower federal houses of parl...

I will be commencing my summer holidays in the next week, after a very busy early summer. The proofs of my next book, again co-edited with C...

Over the course of the summer, there have been a number of major global stories with international development dimensions: but one in partic...