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Jeffrey Herbst

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According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey I. Herbst is an American political scientist, specializing in comparative politics, and in July 2018 became the president of the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, California. Herbst was previously the 16th president of Colgate University, and president and CEO of the Newseum in Washington, D.C. He resigned from his post at the Newseum in 2017 as the museum announced financial issues. Prior to assuming the presidency of Colgate in 2010, he was provost, executive vice president for academic affairs, and professor of political science at Miami University. He received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1983, M.A., MPhil from Yale University in 1985, and Ph.D. in 1987 also from Yale. He is married to Sharon Polansky, with whom he has three children, Matthew, Spencer, and Alana.

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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control (2014) (1146)
States and Power in Africa (2000) (725)
Responding to State Failure in Africa (2011) (266)
War and the State in Africa (1990) (247)
The creation and matintenance of national boundaries in Africa (1989) (195)
The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 (2023) (172)
African Militaries and Rebellion: The Political Economy of Threat and Combat Effectiveness (2004) (160)
The structural adjustment of politics in Africa. (1990) (156)
Economic Incentives, Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa (2000) (143)
State Politics in Zimbabwe (2023) (133)
The Relationship between Political and Economic Reform in Africa (1996) (110)
The Politics of Reform in Ghana (1993) (83)
Somalia and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention (1996) (69)
MIGRATION, THE POLITICS OF PROTEST, AND STATE CONSOLIDATION IN AFRICA (1990) (58)
Launching democracy in South Africa : the first open election, April 1994 (1996) (56)
Big African states (2006) (43)
Fourteen. Let Them Fail: State Failure in Theory and Practice: Implications for Policy (2004) (42)
Africa and the challenge of globalization (2005) (35)
Political Impediments to Economic Rationality: Explaining Zimbabwe's Failure to Reform its Public Sector (1989) (31)
Mbeki's South Africa (2005) (29)
Crafting Cooperation: Crafting regional cooperation in Africa (2007) (28)
Is Nigeria a viable state (1996) (27)
Warlord Politics and African States. By Reno William. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 257p. $58.00. (1999) (26)
Challenges to Africa's Boundaries in the New World Order (1992) (21)
Africa's Third Liberation: The New Search for Prosperity and Jobs (2012) (21)
Political Liberalization in Africa after Ten Years@@@Democracy and Democratization in Africa: Toward the 21st Century@@@Democracy in Africa: The Hard Road Ahead@@@Democratization in Late Twentieth-Century Africa: Coping with Uncertainty (2001) (20)
The Dilemmas of Land Policy in Zimbabwe (1991) (20)
Political Liberalization in Africa after Ten Years (2016) (20)
Prospects For Revolution in South Africa (1988) (20)
The Politics of Revenue Sharing in Resource-Dependent States (2001) (19)
Societal Demands and Government Choices: Agricultural Producer Price Policy in Zimbabwe (1988) (19)
Racial reconciliation in southern Africa (1988) (17)
Africa and the war on terror (2003) (15)
Africa, Terrorism and AFRICOM (2007) (12)
Theories of International Cooperation: The Case of the Lomé Convention (1987) (10)
Prospects for Elite-Driven Democracy in South Africa (1997) (10)
Responding to State Failure in Africa (2011) (10)
Tentative injuries to exposed skin in a homicide case. (1999) (10)
Population Change, Urbanization, and Political Consolidation (2006) (9)
Africa’s Big States: Toward a New Realism (2004) (9)
The Future of Africa: A New Order in Sight (2017) (8)
U.S. Economic Policy Toward Africa (1992) (6)
Populist Demands and Government Resources in the New South Africa (1994) (6)
Creating a New South Africa (1994) (6)
Making Africa Work: A Handbook for Economic Success (2018) (6)
Third World Communism in Crisis: The Fall of Afro-Marxism (2008) (6)
Analyzing Apartheid: how accurate were US intelligence estimates of South Africa, 1948–94? (2003) (5)
The Potential for Conflict in Africa (1992) (5)
South Africa: The Perils of Normalcy (1997) (5)
Africa and the war on terror (2003) (4)
Chapter 4: NEPAD and the AU: Towards a New Order? (2003) (3)
International Laws of War and the African Child: Norms, Compliance, and Sovereignty (2000) (3)
How South Africa Works: And Must Do Better (2015) (3)
State Failure and Challenges to Democratization in Africa (2009) (2)
The Unanswered Question: Attempting to Explain the Rwandan Genocide (2001) (2)
Towards a Taxonomy of Militaries in Contemporary Africa (2013) (2)
Peacekeeping in Africa edited by OLIVER FURLEY and ROY MAY Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1999. Pp. 319. £42.50 (pbk.). (2001) (2)
Good growth and good governance in Africa: An experts forum: AfricaPlus (2015) (1)
The Politics of Privatization in Africa (2019) (1)
Understanding Zimbabwe: The Conflicting Logics of Race and Governance (2007) (1)
States and War in Africa (2020) (1)
One. The Challenge of State-Building in Africa (2015) (1)
State power vs the multinationals: Mineral marketing policy in Zimbabwe (1987) (1)
A New Approach to Sovereignty in Africa (2001) (1)
Emerging Risks and Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (1)
African Security, Commodities, and Development: Whitehall Report 4-06 (2006) (1)
CHAPTER 9. The Challenges of Economic Reform and the Future of the African State (1993) (0)
State Politics in Zimbabwe . By Jeffrey Herbst. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. 283p. $38.00. - The Last Colony in Africa: Diplomacy and the Independence of Rhodesia . By Michael Charlton. London: Basil Blackwell, 1990. 164p. $37.95. (1991) (0)
New Publications From the Council on Foreign Relations (1993) (0)
Twelve related articles, photo essays, and sociological essays about Maine touri (1987) (0)
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective by Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle (1998) (0)
Chapter 5: Tasks for the Future (2003) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Chapter 1: The African Development and Security Record (2003) (0)
Six. Chiefs, States, and the Land (2015) (0)
Two. Power and Space in Precolonial Africa (2015) (0)
South Africa After the Age of Heroes (2008) (0)
Introduction: The everyday lives of peacemakers (1996) (0)
Four. The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa (2015) (0)
Notes (2003) (0)
Chapter 3: Paradox and Parallax: The Special Case of South Africa? (2003) (0)
Globalisation and economic success : policy lessons for developing countries (2008) (0)
Governance in sub-Saharan Africa: Building the foundation for prosperity and security (2005) (0)
Three. The Europeans and the African Problem (2015) (0)
South Africa’s governance and growth challenge (2013) (0)
Introduction (2003) (0)
Adjudicating Refugee and Asylum Status: Foreword (2015) (0)
Since the eighteenth century, when it was part of William Bingham's 3,000,000-ac (1988) (0)
Eight. The Politics of Migration and Citizenship (2015) (0)
AFRICANS LIKE MARKETS; WHY DON’T THEY FAVOR CAPITALISM? (2009) (0)
CHAPTER 8. Alternatives to Orthodox Economic Reform (1993) (0)
Nine. The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa Revised for the New Paperback Edition (2015) (0)
From the CEO (2018) (0)
The role of external actors in combating corruption (2004) (0)
Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1997) (0)
INO volume 43 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1989) (0)
Regulating Foreign Investment: Europe and the U.S. to International Shocks: Japan and the U.S. Issue Linkages in Multilateral Trade Negotiations (2009) (0)
The risk of failed-state contagion (2008) (0)
Conclusion (2003) (0)
Five. National Design and the Broadcasting of Power (2015) (0)
South Africa beyond Mandela (2013) (0)
Chapter 2: Western Responses to Africa's Crisis (2003) (0)
Seven. The Coin of the African Realm (2015) (0)
Commodities, Africa and China (2009) (0)
Editors' Note (2011) (0)
Making Africa Work (2017) (0)
Reforming Africa's Estranged States@@@The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991.@@@State Against Development: The Experience of Post-1965 Zaire.@@@The Rise of a Party-State in Kenya: From "Harambee!" to "Nyayo!". (1994) (0)
The future of Africa (2003) (0)
Preface to the New Paperback Edition (2015) (0)

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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control