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From Tokyo to Paris to Kathmandu: The Fall

of Three Governments in a Single Month

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Toqa Salah - Political Science - 3 year

In today’s world, nations are often While the reasons for their collapse and the
categorized according to multiple criteria - mechanisms of downfall varied, the striking
such as democracy and economic parallel raises an important question: is this
development- into classifications like the merely a coincidence, or does it reflect a
Global South and Global North, the Third broader crisis in the legitimacy of governments
World and the First World, or, more and their ability to respond to contemporary
commonly, developed and developing challenges? Between the anger of the French
countries. Despite the many differences that parliament, the protests in Kathmandu’s
exist within each of these categories, it is streets, and the tense backstage politics in
possible for countries, regardless of Tokyo, a global scene emerges one that signals
classification, to experience similar events that turbulence in political authority even in the
are not only global in dimension but also most established systems, inviting us to reflect
deeply local in character. This is precisely on the deeper political meaning of these

what happened at the beginning of September, events. ELITE’s Seventh Anniversary (2018-2025)
when the governments of three very different
states: Japan, France, and Nepal fell within
days of each other.

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