ACADEMIC PAPERS & REPORTS
July, 2004
The Good Governance Problem: Doing Something About It
By Debbie West, Former Program Coordinator, Intrastate Conflict Program and Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Winter 2004/2005
Strengthening Governance: Ranking Countries Would Help
Washington Quarterly, issue 1, volume 28
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
The demonstrated link among poor governance, poverty, and nation-state failure makes strengthening the quality of governance in the developing world an urgent task.
October, 2003
The Roots of Africa's Leadership Defecit
Compass: A Journal of Leadership, issue 1, volume 1
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Leadership in Africa is typified more by disfiguring examples --
the Idi Amins and Robert Mugabes -- than by positive role models
such as Nelson Mandela and Seretse Khama.
June 23, 2003
Assessing Vulnerabilities to the Effects of Global Change: An Eight-Step Approach
By Marybeth Long Martello, Former Research Fellow, Global Environmental Assessment Project/Environment and Natural Resources Program, 1996-1997, 1999-2002
June, 2003
Governing Nigeria: Continuing Issues after the Election
By Debbie West, Former Program Coordinator, Intrastate Conflict Program
April, 2003
Africa's Discontent: Coping with Human and Natural Disasters
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
"The inhabitants of tropical Afria in 2003 demand higher levels of performance from their governments than they could, or dared to do, in the 1970s and 1980s, a decade or two after independence from colonial rule."
July/August 2002
Failed States in a World of Terror
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
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.
July / August 2002
Industrial Applications for Biotechnology: Opportunities for Developing Countries
Environment, issue 6, volume 44
By Victor Konde, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2000-2002 and Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
