Pierre Englebert,

Professor of African Politics

Pomona College

425 North College Avenue

Carnegie 5

Claremont, CA 91711 (USA)

Phone: 1-909-607-2496

Fax: 1-909-607-1274

Email: penglebert@pomona.edu

Books

African Politics (textbook).  With Kevin Dunn.  Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming.

Africa: Unity, Sovereignty and Sorrow.  Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009.

State Legitimacy and Development in Africa.  Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

Burkina Faso: Unsteady Statehood in West Africa.  Westview Press, 1996.

La révolution burkinabè.  L'Harmattan, 1986.

Opinions and Analyses

"To Save Africa, Reject its Nations," New York Times, 12 June 2010, A21 (NYT responsible for the title).

"African States Need Dilution, not Reconstruction," The Forum, Spring 2010, 91-94.

"Clinton's Challenge in Congo," Christian Science Monitor, August 10, 2009.

"Congo's Implausible Democracy," with Paule Bouvier, Foreign Policy, July 2006.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Extraversion, Vulnerability to Donors, and Political Liberalization in Africa,” with Caryn Peiffer, African Affairs, July 2012, 111(444):355-378.

« Incertitude, autonomie et parasitisme : les entités territoriales décentralisées et l’État en République démocratique du Congo, » Politique Africaine, March 2012, 125 :169-188.

"Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Africa:   Flawed Ideas about Failed States," with Denis Tull, International Security, 32(4), Spring 2008:106-139.

"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.

"Patterns and Theories of Traditional Resurgence in Tropical Africa," Mondes en Développement, 2002, 30(118):51-64.

"A Research Note on Congo's Nationalist Paradox." Review of African Political Economy, September-December 2002, 29(93/94):591-594

"Dismemberment and Suffocation: A Contribution to the Debate on African Boundaries," with Stacy Tarango (Pomona '01) and Matthew Carter (Pomona '01), Comparative Political Studies, December 2002, 35(10):1093-1118.

"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):1821-1835.

"Pre-Colonial Institutions, Post-Colonial States, and Economic Development in Tropical Africa." Political Research Quarterly, March 2000, 53(1): 1-30.

“"The Contemporary African State: Neither African nor State," Third World Quarterly, December 1997 (4):767-775 (review essay).

Book Chapters and Invited Articles

“The Politics of Perpetual Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” In John Harbeson and Peter Lewis (eds.). Crisis Management in Africa. Lynne Rienner. Forthcoming.

"Separatism in Africa.”  In James J. Hentz (ed.).  African Security Handbook.  Routledge, forthcoming.

“The Democratic Republic of Congo:  Fault Lines and Local Fissures.”  In Jeffrey Herbst, Terence McNamee and Greg Mills (eds.), On the Fault Line: Managing Tensions and Divisions within Societies.  Profile Books, 2012.

“Poverty and Democracy in Africa.” With Monica Boduszinsky (Pomona ‘05).  In Lioba Moshi and Abdulahi Osman (eds.). Democracy and Culture: An African Perspective.  Adonis and Abbey, 2008. 

“The Primacy of Politics in Separatist Dynamics,” with Katharine Boyle (Pomona ‘03), African Prospective, 2008, 2:31-63.

"Wither the Separatist Motive?" In Kevin Dunn and Morten Boas (eds.).  African Guerillas: Raging against the Machine.  Lynne Rienner, 2007, 55-68. 

"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.  Brookings Institution Press, 2006, 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.  Palgrave, 2006, 119-146.  A longer version is available as Queen Elizabeth House Working Paper WPS95, Feb. 2003.

"Souveraineté, sous-développement et le paradoxe nationaliste congolais," Mondes en Développement, 2003, 31(123):63-87.

“Back to the Future?  Resurgent Indigenous Structures and the Reconfiguration of Power in Africa.”  In Olufemi Vaughan (ed.).  Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa.  Sefer Books, 2003, 26-59.

"La Banque Mondiale et les vertus insoupçonnées du 'capital social'." In Gilbert Rist (dir.).  Les mots du pouvoir: sens et non-sens de la rhétorique internationale. Presses Universitaires de France, 2002, 83-100.

"Le Bouganda: Un presque Etat dans l'Etat." Afrique Contemporaine, 3ème trimèstre 2001, 166-176.

"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.

“Burundi:  Learning the Lessons.”  With Richard Hoffman.  In Ishrat Husain and Rashid Faruqee (eds.).  Adjustment in Africa: Lessons from Country Case Studies.  World Bank, 1993, 11‑71.

"Cameroon: Background to a Crisis." CSIS Africa Notes, 1991, No 130

“Burkina Faso in Transition.”  CSIS Africa Notes, 1990, No 111. 

Data

Data set for "Pre-Colonial Institutions..." (PRQ 2000)

Data set for "Solving the Mystery..." (World Development 2000)

Data set for State Legitimacy... (LRP 2000)

"Horizontal legitimacy" variable from State Legitimacy... (LRP 2000)

Country data set for "Dismemberment..." (CPS 2002)

Border data set for "Dismemberment..." (CPS 2002)

Code book and data appendix for "Dismemberment..." (CPS 2002)

Codebook for chapter two of Africa: Unity... (LRP 2009)

Data set for Table 2.3 (Excel) of Africa: Unity... (LRP 2009)

Data set for Table 2.4 (Excel) of Africa: Unity... (LRP 2009)

Data set for "extraversion..." (African Affairs, forthcoming)--will be posted after publication

Classes

Politics 90:  Statistics for Politics and International Relations (next offered: Fall 2012)

Politics 162:  Comparative Politics of Africa (next offered: fall 2012)

Politics 164: African Politics and Development Seminar (next offered: Spring 2014)

Politics 178: Political Economy of Development (next offered: Spring 2013)

Politics 190: Senior Seminar in Comparative Politics (next offered: Spring 2013)