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What determines the outcome for rebels in contemporary African civil wars? How are "victory" and "defeat" measured? Is there any connection between a rebel group's organization and its fate? What implications do the answers to these questions have for policymakers concerned with ongoing armed conflicts? Addressing these issues and more, Christopher Day explores the relationship between rebel groups and regime politics in Africa

The ravages of two world wars and a desire to develop a politically and economically united Europe led to the establishment of the Eurozone in January 1999. The European Monetary Union was a grand experiment that brought eleven European nations under a single currency, the euro. Complexities associated with the implementation of effective fiscal, budgetary and banking coordination left the bloc vulnerable to asymmetries in the productivity and factor markets of its members. This paper analyses how adoption of the euro, which prevented nominal exchange rate adjustments, impacted on the competitiveness and real economies of member states, thereby undermining the European Union's key priority of creating balanced economic growth and productivity.

In this paper I will suggest that discussions of teacher quality in and beyond initial or pre-service teacher education will always be incomplete without a consideration of the role played by school leaders in influencing, in particular, three key components of teacher quality: i) professional autonomy; ii) professional capital; and iii) teacher commitment, well-being and expertise. Although ensuring that they teach to their best and well is an individual teacher responsibility and, arguably, their moral duty, it is also a government responsibility, in order to enable the development of a just society and economic progress, and an individual school responsibility through the daily presence and actions of principals and other school leaders. ; En este trabajo quiero sugerir que las discusiones sobre la calidad de los docentes, en la formación inicial docente y más allá de ella, siempre estarán incompletas sin tener en cuenta el papel desempeñado por los líderes escolares para influir, particularmente, en tres componentes clave de la calidad de los docentes: i) Autonomía profesional; ii) capital profesional; y iii) el compromiso, bienestar y la experiencia de los docentes. Aunque asegurar que enseñen bien es una responsabilidad individual del maestro y, posiblemente, su deber moral; es también una responsabilidad del gobierno, para posibilitar el desarrollo de una sociedad justa y el progreso económico, y una responsabilidad individual de la escuela a través de la presencia diaria y las acciones de los directores y otros líderes escolares. ; Universidad de Granada. Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Escolar. Grupo FORCE (HUM386)