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Open Journal of Political Science (OJPS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in political science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of p…
Utangisila Bena Osée
The current political issue in the DRC seems to be reduced to the use of the voting machine and the cleaning of the electoral file. These are two important prerequisites, probably to think of transparent, credible elections even if the opening of the politica…
Joseph Okeyo Obosi
Enhanced Health care services address not only one of the key Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which is goal No 3 , but also the development strategies for most developing countries. Good governance is critical to improving health care systems. Many develo…
Erika Jaráiz, Ángel Cazorla, José Manuel Rivera
In this paper we identify four fundamental factors in the construction of the nation-preconditions, political opportunity structure, mobilization and speech-, integrated by a series of elements that serve as indicators for the approach to our explanatory mode…
Markus Fischer
Due to its systemic approach, structural realism (or neorealism) can be subsumed under methodological holism, which takes social phenomena to be wholes that cannot be reduced to their parts. The wholes posited by structural realism are the state and the inter…
Aref Humeidi Hussein Bani Hamad
This study aimed to identify the relationship between political reform and political stability in Jordan through a quick review of the concepts and indicators of political reform and political stability. The study yielded a number of findings, the most import…
Freddy A. Paniagua
Several book reviews were published prior to the publication of “ Fear : Trump in the White House ” on September 11, 2018, with emphasis on “terrifying scenes” (e.g., John F, Kelly reportedly said that Trump is an “idiot”). These reviews, however, did not dis…
Justin Gibbins, Shaghayegh Rostampour
This paper attempts to reveal how intervention in international conflicts (re) constructs the Anglo-American Special Relationship (AASR). To do this, this article uses Syria as a case study. Analyzing parliamentary debates, presidential/prime ministerial spee…
Kiros Abeselom
This Research Paper would like to analyze and examine the Factors Affecting Development of the African Countries: The Case of Ethiopia. Africa is poten-tially rich because Africa has inexhaustible or abundant quantity reserves of important natural (mineral) a…
Yan Zhao
Due to China’s assertive diplomacy in maritime space, nationalism, de-scribed as an element of a “newly assertive China”, arouses concern among Americans. With Donald Trump, who caters to both the far left and the far right, becoming the 45 th US president, C…
Herbert Mba Aki
The present study aims to identify the existing reforms introduced by the re-cent economic diversification policy of the government of Gabon called Plan Stratégique Gabon Emergent . It assesses the current stage of reforms aiming to enable the business enviro…
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Open Journal of Political Science (OJPS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in political science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of p… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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