AFRICA
November 6, 2004
The Threat from Rogue States
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
After Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush's foremost policy challenge is posed by rogue states, that is, states that threaten the United States and world peace.
October 2004
"Millennium Development Goals: Why They Matter"
Journal Article, Global Governance, issue 4, volume 10
By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Former Research Fellow, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project/Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, 2005-2006
September, 2004
Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges
Book
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Is Nigeria, with its vast wealth in both human and natural resources, on the path to realizing its enormous potential? Or is it in danger of becoming a failed state? Crafting the New Nigeria considers the challenges that the country's leadership now faces, offering rich—and sobering—analyses of Nigeria's current political and economic systems.
July 7, 2004
New US Focus on Africa
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Africa Advisory Panel suggests new US policy
July 4, 2004
Africa: Side by Side...But in Starkly Different Worlds
Op-Ed, Los Angeles Times
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Comparing Leadership in Africa
July, 2004
The Good Governance Problem: Doing Something About It
Report
By Debbie West, Former Program Coordinator, Intrastate Conflict Program and Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
July/August 2004
Strengthening African Leadership
Journal Article, Foreign Affairs, issue 4, volume 83
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 2004
Weak and Failing States: Critical new Security Issues
Journal Article, Turkish Policy Quarterly, issue 2, volume 3
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Rotberg argues that failing states are a particular worry to the security of the twenty-first century.
Summer 2004
Leadership in Africa
Journal Article, Chimera, USA/Africa Institute, issue 2, volume 2
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Africa's rampant conflict (in recent months in the western Sudan and in
Uganda) and strikingly slow economic development (as compared to Asia and Latin America) stems in large part from poor governance and deficient leadership.
Spring 2004
"Rotberg Facilitates Landmark African Leadership Document"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
A landmark Code of African Leadership was unveiled in March by the African Leadership Council (ALC), a group of current and former African leaders. Belfer Center Program on Intrastate Conflict Director Robert Rotberg, who serves as the Council's Interim Executive Director, facilitated the development of the document.
