Robert Rotberg

November 28, 2007

Virtual Book Tour: Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations

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By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

“This volume makes an unparalleled contribution to the growing and vital field of measurement and human rights. Rotberg offers a useful categorization and assessment of repressive and 'rogue' states, allowing us to measure the extent of repressive state behavior more accurately. His work should embolden external critiques and facilitate more transparent and accountable foreign policy."

Sarah Sewall, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University.

November 20, 2007

Africa's Successes: Evaluating Accomplishment

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By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Seven of mainland sub-Saharan Africa’s forty-five nation-states are widely regarded as being success stories. The mixed conclusions of this analysis are instructive in understanding the dynamics of political and economic achievement in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole.

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October 7, 2007

"Playing Favorites on Dictators Robs U.S. of High Ground"

Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Myanmar (formerly Burma) is among the four most repressive countries on Earth, and President Bush is right to strengthen sanctions against the junta of aging generals who have pummeled protesting monks in their monasteries. But what about equally odious regimes with which Washington maintains cordial relations despite appalling human-rights records?

September 25, 2007

Ibrahim Index of African Governance

Report

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution and Rachel Gisselquist, Research Director, Index of African Governance

Strengthening African governance is the goal of a new ranking system that has been developed. The Index draws heavily on pioneering work by Robert I. Rotberg, Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict.

August 25, 2007

Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations

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By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

"This volume makes an unparalleled contribution to the growing and vital field of measurement and human rights. [The book] offers a useful categorization and assessment of repressive and 'rogue' states, allowing us to measure the extenet of repressive state behavior more accurately. His [Rotberg] work should embolden external critiques and facilitate more transparent and accountable foreign policy."

--Sarah Sewall, Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University

June 23, 2007

"China's Mixed Role in Africa"

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

China is transforming Africa, for good and ill. The United States and other traditional trading and aid partners of Africa need to help Africans craft policies that welcome Chinese investment and trade but condemn the taking of African jobs and the destruction of African industries.

June 11, 2007

China: Good or Evil in Africa?

Policy Brief

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

China is transforming Africa, for good and ill. The United States and other traditional trading and aid partners of Africa need to pay closer attention than they are, and with Africans craft bold new policies that welcome Chinese investment and trade but condemn the taking of African jobs and the destruction of African industries. Click here to read the full text, which discusses China’s emerging controversial role in Africa as investor, trader, buyer, and aid donor.

Associated Press

April 25, 2007

"A Nation in Decay"

Op-Ed, Globe and Mail

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Nelson Mandela emerged from prison in 1990 to demonstrate the power for good and the best practices of democratic African leadership. His affirmation of inclusionary and participatory values, moreover, matched those that had been affirmed for decades in neighbouring Botswana under presidents Seretse Khama and Ketumile Masire.

Associated Press

April 20, 2007

"Nigeria Neglect Carries Cost"

Op-Ed, Baltimore Sun

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

By neglecting Nigeria, the Bush administration has missed repeated opportunities to strengthen democracy in Africa's most populous, most fractured and most important country.

Associated Press

April 2, 2007

"Losing the War in Afghanistan"

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

The United States and NATO are about to lose the war in Afghanistan to an insurgent, revived Taliban. Deprived of sufficient firepower and soldiers, Allied forces are failing to hunt down and contain the Taliban, especially in the southern part of the country.