The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region faces a growing ‘youth bulge’ that is disproportionately burdened by unand underemployment, capturing the votes of this demographic is becoming more important than ever before. Yet, despite their numerical importance and the historical relevance of generational identities within ...

This article analyzes the positioning of political parties in current realities. The special military operation Ukraine is considered as a significant internal and geopolitical event, which to one degree or another affected almost all socio-political institutions Russia, including parties. In this are classified into new ones, that those created after 2015 participating federal election campaig...

An important challenge in several disciplines is to understand how sudden changes can propagate among coupled systems. Examples include the synchronization of business cycles, population collapse in patchy ecosystems, markets shifting to a new technology platform, collapses in prices and in confidence in financial markets, and protests erupting in multiple countries. A number of mathematical mo...

Multi-party fair exchange (MFE) and secure multi-party computation (fair SMPC) are under-studied fields of research, with practical importance. In particular, we consider MFE scenarios where at the end protocol, either every participant receives other participant’s item, or no anything. We analyze case a trusted third party (TTP) is optimistically available, although emphasize that trust put on...