Robert Rotberg

September 16, 2002

South Africa's Free Media Have No Friend in Mbeki

Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor

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

Free and vigorous news media are essential to democracy, especially in the developing world, where there is little other accountability. Yet vigilant media threaten those leaders who prefer unquestioned control and propaganda outlets.

July/August 2002

Failed States in a World of Terror

Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 4, volume 81

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

"Poor leadership has been the depressing norm in Africa for decades. But as a bold new initiative by a group of past and present African leaders takes off, good governance may finally come to the continent."

Summer 2002

The New Nature of Nation-State Failure

Journal Article, Washington Quarterly, issue 3, volume 25

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

Nation-states fail because they can no longer deliver positive political goods to their people.

May 14, 2001

Zimbabwe's Spreading Misery

Op-Ed, New York Times

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

The economic and political cancer of President Robert G. Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe now promises to spread to South Africa - and so endanger the continent. Zimbabwe's man-made tragedy desperately threatens all its neighbors, and deeply compromises American attempts to help Africa help itself.

May 3, 2000

Saving Zimbabwe from Mugabe

Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor

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

The impending transfer of authority from Zimbabwe's increasingly discredited rulers to a newly empowered grassroots political movement is fueling savage intimidation - killings of black opponents, invasions of white-owned farms, and the assassination of white farmers.

What unites those killed, both black and white, is their support of the Movement of Democratic Change, Zimbabwe's new popular counter to the 20-year rule of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).

June 22, 1998

Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future

Book

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

"It is no exaggeration to say that Burma is one of the most troubled countries in the world today. In Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future, an extraordinarily accomplished group of scholars and analysts examines the full range of political, military, economic, and public policy problems the country faces..." ---Michael E. Brown, Harvard University

Policy Brief - State Building in Afghanistan: New Ideas

Event Summary

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

The First Ten Years: An Assessment of the Office of Transition Initiatives

Report

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

Sudan and the War in Darfur

Book Chapter

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

Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix

Book

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

"An exciting and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie behind the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts...Anyone dedicated to the fullest possible understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will want to read this volume cover-to-cover."

---Neil Caplan, Vanier College, Montreal