Pierre Englebert
- Associate Professor
- Address & Contact Information
- 425 North College Avenue (Carnegie 5)
- Claremont, CA 91711
- Phone: (909) 607-2496
- Fax: (909) 607-1274
- E-mail: penglebert@pomona.edu
- Office Hours
- By appointment
- Interests
- African politics and development
- Institutions and development
- Political economy of the state
- Separatism and nationalism
- Classes
- Politics 162: Comparative Politics of Africa
- Politics 164: Advanced Questions of African Politics and Development
- Politics 178: Political Economy of Development
- Politics 90: Statistics for Politics and International Relations
- Ongoing Projects
- The Determinants of Partial Democratization in Africa. With Caryn Peiffer.
- Contemporary African Politics. A textbook project with Peter Lewis and Terrence Lyons, for Lynne Rienner Publishers.
- Books
-
Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow.
Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.
- Codebook for Chapter One
- Dataset for Table 1.3 (Excel)
- Dataset for Table 1.4 (Excel)
State Legitimacy and Development in Africa. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.
- Click here for data set
- Click here for the data underlying the construction of the "Horizontal Legitimacy" variable
- Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1996
- La révolution burkinabè. Preface by Jean-Pierre Cot. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1987.
- Selected Publications
- "Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa: Flawed Ideas about Failed States," with Denis Tull, International Security, 32(4), Spring 2008:106-139.
- "Wither the Separatist Motive?" In Kevin Dunn and Morten Boas (eds.). African Guerillas: Raging against the Machine. Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007, 55-68.
- "Congo's Implausible Democracy." With Paule Bouvier. Foreign Policy (Web), July 2006.
- "Life Support or Assisted Suicide? Dilemmas of US Policy towards the Democratic Republic of Congo." In Nancy Birdsall et al. (eds.). Short of the Goal: US Policy and Poorly Performing States. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, for the Center for Global Development, 2006, p. 53-82.
- "Why Congo Persists: Sovereignty, Globalization and the Violent Reproduction of a Weak State." In Valpy Fitzgerald et al. (eds.). Globalization, Self-Determination and Violent Conflict. New York: Palgrave, 2006, p. 119-146. A longer version is available as Queen Elizabeth House Working Paper WPS95, Feb. 2003.
- "Let's Stick Together: Understanding Africa's Secessionist Deficit." With Rebecca Hummel (Pomona '03), African Affairs, July 2005, 104(416):399-427.
- "Compliance and Defiance to National Integration in Barotseland and Casamance," Afrika Spectrum, 39 (2005)1:29-59.
- "Primary Commodities and War: Congo-Brazzaville's Ambivalent Resource Curse." With James Ron. Comparative Politics, October 2004:61-81.
- "A Research Note on Congo's Nationalist Paradox." Review of African Political Economy, September-December 2002, 29(93/94):591-594
- "Patterns and Theories of Traditional Resurgence in Tropical Africa." Mondes en Développement, 2002, 30(118):51-64
- "Dismemberment and Suffocation: A Contribution to the Debate on African Boundaries," with Stacy Tarango and Matthew Carter.
Comparative Political Studies, December 2002, 35(10):1093-1118.
- Click here for country data set
- Click here for border data set
- Click here for code book and data appendix
- "Born-again Buganda or the Limits of Traditional Resurgence in Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies, 40(3), September 2002, 345-368
- "Solving the Mystery of the AFRICA Dummy,"
World Development, October 2000, 28 (10)
- Click here for data set
- "Pre-Colonial Institutions, Post-Colonial States, and Economic Development in Tropical Africa."
Political Research Quarterly, March 2000, 53(1): 1-30
- Click here for data set
- "A Developmental State without Growth? Explaining the Paradox of Burkina Faso in a Comparative Perspective" (with Michael Kevane). In Yearbook of African Development Perspectives. Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1999.
- "The Contemporary African State: Neither African nor State," Third World Quarterly, December 1997 (4):767-775
- Papers in French
- "Souveraineté, sous-développement et le paradoxe nationaliste congolais." Publié dans Mondes en Développement, 2003, 31(123):63-87. Cliquez ici pour une version non corrigée
- "La Banque Mondiale et les vertus insoupçonnées du 'capital social'." In Les mots du pouvoir: sens et non-sens de la rhétorique internationale. Sous la direction de Gilbert Rist. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Nouveaux Cahiers de l'Institut Universitaire d'Etudes du Développement de Genève). Mars 2002, 83-100. English version
- "Le Bouganda: Un presque Etat dans l'Etat." Afrique Contemporaine, 3ème trimèstre 2001, 166-176.