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J. Peter Pham

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#2122

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#2502

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Public Policy

#669

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#716

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J. Peter Pham's Degrees

PhD Political Science Columbia University
Masters International Relations Johns Hopkins University
Bachelors Political Science Augustana College

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According to Wikipedia, John Peter Pham is an American academic and author specializing in international relations with a focus on African affairs. Pham was the United States Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, from March 2020 until the end of President Donald Trump's administration in January 2021. Prior to this, he served as the Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa from November 2018. Prior to these appointments, Pham was also Vice President of the Atlantic Council and Director of its Africa Center. In September 2020, Pham was accorded the personal rank of ambassador, becoming the first Vietnamese American to achieve that rank. After leaving the Trump administration, Pham rejoined the Atlantic Council as a Distinguished Fellow.

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J. Peter Pham's Published Works

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Boko Haram's Evolving Threat (2012) (66)
Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State (2004) (52)
Putting Somali piracy in context (2010) (41)
Foreign Influences and Shifting Horizons: The Ongoing Evolution of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (2011) (28)
What Is in the National Interest? Hans Morgenthau's Realist Vision and American Foreign Policy (2008) (26)
Next Front? Evolving United States–African Strategic Relations in the “War on Terrorism” and Beyond (2007) (25)
Where a State Isn't a State (2011) (23)
China's African Strategy and Its Implications for U.S. Interests (2006) (22)
India's Expanding Relations with Africa and Their Implications for U.S. Interests (2007) (22)
Book Review: Commentaries on Arms Control Treaties, Vol. 1, The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (2006) (21)
Child Soldiers, Adult Interests: The Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy (2005) (18)
Beijing's Great Game: Understanding Chinese Strategy in Central Eurasia (2006) (18)
Boko Haram's Evolving Threat (Africa Security Brief, Number 20, April 2012) (2012) (18)
The Dangerous “Pragmatism” of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (2011) (16)
Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 by Matthias Küntzel (2008) (14)
Not Another Failed State: Toward a Realistic Solution in the Western Sahara (2010) (14)
Boko Haram: The strategic evolution of the Islamic State’s West Africa Province (2016) (13)
The Development of the United States Africa Command and its Role in America’s Africa Policy under George W. Bush and Barack Obama (2014) (11)
U.S. National Interests and Africa's Strategic Significance (2005) (11)
Been There, Already Doing That: America's Ongoing Security Engagement in Africa (2009) (9)
3. The Failed State And Regional Dimensions Of Somali Piracy (2010) (9)
Making Sense of a Senseless War (2007) (8)
Iran's Threat to the Strait of Hormuz: A Realist Assessment (2010) (8)
AFRICOM from Bush to Obama (2011) (7)
U.S. Interests in Promoting Security across the Sahara (2010) (7)
PERIPHERAL VISION (2009) (7)
China's Strategic Penetration of Latin America: What It Means for U.S. Interests (2010) (7)
State Collapse, Insurgency, and Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Somalia (2013) (6)
India in Africa: Implications of an Emerging Power for AFRICOM and U.S. Strategy (2011) (6)
State Collapse, Insurgency, and Famine in the Horn of Africa: Legitimacy and the Ongoing Somali Crisis (2011) (6)
China's “Surge” in the Middle East and Its Implications for U.S. Interests (2009) (6)
The Splintering of Al Shabaab (2012) (5)
Pirates and Dragon Boats: Assessing the Chinese Navy's Recent East African Deployments (2013) (4)
The Perils of "Consensus": Hans Kelsen and the Legal Philosophy of the United Nations (2004) (4)
Legitimacy, Justice, and the Future of Africa (2005) (4)
Terrorism and counterterrorism in Africa: evolving focus (2013) (4)
What Is in the National Interest? Hans Morgenthau's Realist Vision and American Foreign Policy (2008) (4)
Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Africa (2013) (3)
Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State, From Christian Militias to Al Qaeda . By Mark Juergensmeyer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xii + 370 pp. $27.50 cloth, $18.75 paper (2010) (2)
Political Realism and the Question of Regime Legitimacy (2011) (2)
From Normalization to Partnership: An Overview of Relations Between the United States and Vietnam (2005) (2)
Imagining the Congo Secure and Stable (2008) (2)
What Happened to Africa (2008) (1)
India's new African horizons: an American perspective (2013) (1)
Africa Isn’t an Island: An Emerging Continent and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century (2021) (1)
India’s New Engagement of Africa: Trends and Implications (2010) (1)
Back to Africa: Russia’s New African Engagement (2010) (1)
Hans J. Morgenthau and United States Policy toward Africa (2009) (1)
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History edited by John Parker and Richard Reid (2015) (1)
The New Strategic Importance of Africa (2009) (1)
Torture, Democracy, and the War on Terrorism (2006) (1)
The Mind of the African Strongman: Conversations with Dictators, Statesmen, and Father Figures by Herman J. Cohen (2015) (1)
How to End the Stalemate in Somalia (2011) (1)
REVIEWS (2010) (0)
Hans J. Morgenthau and the Weimar Republic: On the Epistemological Origins of Hans J. Morgenthau's Weltanschauung by Felix Rösch (2009) (0)
Political Realism, the Economy, and the National Interest (2011) (0)
Vhy Israel Is Free to Set Its Own Borders Michael 1 (2006) (0)
Chaos and Violence: What Globalization, Failed States, and Terrorism Mean for U.S. Foreign Policy by Stanley Hoffman (2007) (0)
Recent Judicial Decisions of Interest to Oil and Gas Lawyers (2005) (0)
Realism Reconsidered: The Legacy of Hans Morgenthau in International Realism edited by Michael C. Williams (2008) (0)
REVIEWS (2010) (0)
Editor-in-Chief’s Note (2011) (0)
REVIEWS (2009) (0)
Perilous Desert: Insecurity in the Sahara edited by Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars (2014) (0)
Book Review: Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups (2007) (0)
A Review of: The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold (2011) (0)
REVIEWS (2009) (0)
Politics and International Justice in a World of States (2004) (0)
Enforcing the Peace: Learning from the Imperial Past Edited by Kimberly Zisk Marten: A Review of: “New York: Columbia University Press (2006), $18.95 paperback, 208 pages” (2007) (0)
REVIEWS (2011) (0)
Continuity and Change (2011) (0)
A Review of: “Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow. By Pierre Englebert.” (2010) (0)
The Limits of Intervention— Humanitarian or Otherwise (2005) (0)
African Immigrant Religions in America . Edited by Jacob K. Olupona and Regina Gemignani. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007. viii + 352 pp. $75.00 cloth, $23.00 paper (2009) (0)
A Review of: The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. By Lee Smith (2011) (0)
A Review of: “The Age of War: The United States Confronts the World” (2006) (0)
George Kennan: A Study of Character by John Lukacs (2007) (0)
World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman Podhoretz (2007) (0)
A Review of: “Somaliland: An African Struggle for Nationhood and International Recognition. By Iqbal D. Jhazbhay.” (2010) (0)
Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India by Michael Curtis (2009) (0)
U.S. Strategic Opportunities in the Sino-Vietnamese Dynamic (2007) (0)
The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution by Amir Taheri (2010) (0)
The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolutionby Amir Taheri: New York: Encounter Books (2009), $25.95 Hardcover, 423 pages (2010) (0)

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