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Elections That Mark 2023 as a Key Year

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Elections That Mark 2023 as a Key Year
An official of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) validates a voter at a polling station during the gubernatorial election at Ede in Osun State, southwest Nigeria, on July 16, 2022. Voters went to the polls to elect a new governor for Nigeria's southwest Osun state, in what has become a battleground to test support for the leading presidential hopefuls ahead of presidential elections in 2023. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
Gregory Copley
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Elections, even in small nation-states, can have global consequences, and three national elections, at least in 2023, will have significant strategic ramifications beyond their borders: those in Nigeria, Turkey, and New Zealand.

Gregory Copley
Gregory Copley
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Gregory Copley is president of the Washington-based International Strategic Studies Association and editor-in-chief of the “Defense & Foreign Affairs” series of publications. Born in Australia, Copley is an entrepreneur, writer, government adviser, defense publication editor, and Member of the Order of Australia. His latest and 37th book is “The Noble State: Governance Options in an Ignoble Era.”
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