Edmond J.

Keller
Professor, Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Political Science (310) 825-2566

3361 Ralph Bunche Hall (310) 825-4331
University of California, Los Angeles (310) 825-0778 (Fax)
Los Angeles, CA 90095 ekeller@ucla.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Political Science, 1974

Dissertation: “Education, Manpower and National Development: Secondary
Schooling and Socialization in Kenya”

M.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Political Science, 1970

B.A. Louisiana State University in New Orleans, Government, 1969

Postgraduate Education

Fellow, University of California Management Institute, Summer 1985

University of California, Berkeley National Fellowship Fund

Post - Doctoral Fellow and Ford Foundation/NEH Post-Doctoral
Fellow at the Institute of International Studies.
The year was spent participating in political science seminars and
doing research on the Ethiopian Revolution 1981-82

Grants and Fellowships

Grant, The World Bank, for Workshop, “African Development Reconsidered” 1994

Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, International Studies and

Overseas Programs (ISOP) Conference, “Regime Transformation and
Democratization in Comparative Prospective” 1994

Research Fellow, Africa Institute of South Africa 1993-present

Grant, University of California, Institute of Global Conflict and

Cooperation (IGCC) Conference, “The End of the Cold War and the
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Grant, United States Institute of Peace Conference,

"The End of the Cold War and the New African Political Order" 1993-94

Grant, University of California, Office of the President for Systemwide

African/African American Studies Research Working Group 1992-94

United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Grant for South Africa Summer 1993

American Council on Education Fellow 1987-88

Grant, University of California, Institute of Global

Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) 1984-86

National Academy of Sciences, Grant-in-Aid of Research 1983-84

Ford Foundation/NEH/Post-Doctoral Fellow 1981-82

National Fellowship Fund Post-Doctoral Fellow 1981-82

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.

African-American Scholars Council Research Fellow 1976-77

Midwest University Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) Grant to

conduct a workshop on Education for Human Resource Development,
Madison, Wisconsin 1976

Research Fellow, Bureau of Educational Research, University of Nairobi.

MUCIA Research Grant to study the impact of educational policy in Kenya 1975

Research Associate, Institute for Development Studies,

University of Nairobi, Visiting Research Fellow 1972-73

Ford Foundation Middle East and Africa Field Research Fellow 1972-73

Ford Foundation Advanced Doctoral Fellow 1971-72

National Defense Education Act, Title IV Fellow, University of Wisconsin 1969-71

Grants Secured While Director of the African Studies Center*

Unites States Information Agency, for Faculty Exchange Program with

The University of Dar es Salaam Tanzania. $110,000 1994-97

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World Bank, for a Conference on African Development Reconsidered

$58,000 1994-96

International Studies and Overseas Programs for an international conference

On The Politics of Regime Change in Comparative Perspective $20,000 1994

United States Institute of Peace for a conference on Africa in the New

International Order $30,000 1994-95

Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation for a conference on Africa

And the New International Order $18,000 1994-95
Ford Foundation for student support to strengthen African Studies
$50,000 1994-95

Rockefeller Foundation, to support residential post-doctoral fellowships

in the humanities in African Gender Studies. $258,000 1996-99

Ford Foundation to coordinate synergy workshops of partners in the

New African Initiative $87,000 1996-98

Ford Foundation for UCLA’s participation in the New African

Initiative and the East African Uongozi (Leadership) Institute for
Undergraduates $480,000 1996-99

Ford Foundation for the continuation of UCLA’s participation in the New

African Initiative and the East African Uongozi (Leadership) Institute
For undergraduates $365,000 1999-2001

* This does not include three US Department of Education Grants secured in collaboration with
African Studies Faculty between 1993 and 2000.

Most Recent Grants

US Department of Education to establish the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa

in collaboration with the Globalization Research Network $635,000 2001-03

Carneigie Endowment for research on “The Making and Remaking of

State and Nation in Ethiopia” $29,000 2001-04

US Department of Education to continue the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa

in collaboration with the Globalization Research Network $500,000 2003-05

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US Department of Education to continue the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa in

collaboration with the Globalization Research Network $347,563 2003-05

US Department of State to sponsor research on Water and Sanitation issues in African Urban
areas and to continue the work of the HIV/AIDS in Africa Initiative $225,000 2003-05

The Ford Foundation to support to write up and disseminate the results of a 2004 international
conference celebration the centennial anniversary of the birth of Nobel Peace Laureate Ralph
Bunch $10,000 2004-05

Department of Education to continue the UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa in

collaboration with the Globalization Research Network $173,893 2004-06

Professional Honors

President of the North American Chapter of the African Association of Political Science
2005-present

Member of the Executive Council, American Political

Science Association 1999-2001

Head, Comparative Politics of Developing Countries Division

of the American Political Science Association annual meeting 1999

President, African Studies Association 1991-92

Vice President, African Studies Association 1990-91

Distinguished Lecturer in Pan Africanist Studies, Indiana State University Spring 1987

Eminent Scholar, Norfolk State University April 1983

Rodney Higgins Award of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists

for “Best Paper” at the 1980 Annual Association Meeting 1981

Administrative Experience

Director, Globalization Research Center-Africa 2001-present

The UCLA Globalization Research Center-Africa (GRCA) conducts research on the dynamics
and effects of globalization, with particular emphasis on impacts within Africa. This is done
within the context of collaboration through the Globalization Research Network, involving the
University of Hawaii, the George Washington University, the University of South Florida, and
UCLA. The overall aim of the Center is to engage in research on ways global forces impact

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upon African societies; the ways in which African societies have an impact upon the
globalization process; and the cross national and cross cultural comparison of global processes as
they relate to Africa. This work is policy relevant, and its results are widely distributed to
educators, educational institutions, policy makers and the public at large. The long-term
intention is to develop an institution open to collaboration with and input from different
disciplines in academia, and to partnership with other research endeavors in both the public and
private sectors. It is envisioned that GRCA will be a sharer of resources, within the entire
University of California, but particularly on the UCLA campus, within academic as well as non-
academic circles. In addition to supporting its own signature projects (Conflict, Conflict
Management and Democracy; the HIV/AIDS in Africa Initiative, GRCA also supports an inter-
active web-based/CD curriculum project on globalization and Africa and designed for high
school juniors; conferences and workshops, and faculty and student research.

Director, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA 1992-2001

Provide leadership for this organized Research Unit, locate and provide funding support for faculty
and graduate research and research travel; write proposals and raise funds for support of the Center
and its programs; organize seminars, workshops, symposia, lectures and discussion groups on
African subjects; manage the African Studies National Resource Center; recruit graduate students
for the African Studies MA program; manage and allocate graduate assistantships and fellowships,
including the federally funded Foreign Language Academic Support (FLAS) program; liaise with
other academic and non-academic units on campus, within the university system, and other regional
and national organizations. Oversee and manage the Center's publication program.
This position was half-time. The other half of my time was spent fulfilling my duties as a faculty
member doing research and teaching.

Faculty Assistant/Academic Affairs, Office of the President,

University of California 1988-90
Served as a member of the Cabinet of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, and was
involved in all aspects of the administration of the Office of Academic Affairs at the university
system level. Particular responsibilities include academic planning, long-range strategic planning
for new UC campuses, academic personnel and faculty and graduate affirmative action matters. I
consulted with and provided staff support for senior level administrators with responsibilities in
these areas, and carried out special assignments as requested. One of my major responsibilities was
to conceptualize and direct the planning for the 1990 All-University Faculty Conference, the first in
15 years.
The position of Faculty Assistant was half-time. The remainder of my time was spent as the
Executive Director of the President's Task Force on Black Student Eligibility.

Executive Director, President's Task Force on Black Student Eligibility 1988-90

After serving as a member of this Task Force for years, I assumed the executive directorship in the
summer of 1988 for a period of 18 months. My primary responsibilities were to provide managerial
leadership in the execution of the Task Force's final year of work on a number of research projects
and in the preparation of final report and set of recommendations to be presented to the President of
the University and the Regents of the University of California. In addition to managing the day-to-
day activities of the Task Force, I acted as its liaison with national and state organizations, local

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civic and community groups, and other units of the University and state higher education
community. Along with my staff, I was involved in background research in support of the Task
Force and was primarily responsible for preparing and disseminating the results of its work.

American Council on Education Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles 1987-88

Worked closely with the Vice Chancellor for Academic Administration and the Vice Chancellor for
Planning. Participated in weekly meetings of senior administrators with the Chancellor; as well as
in periodic meetings of the Chancellor's Cabinet. Served as staff to the Campus-wide Strategic
Planning Committee and the Task Force on University-Industry Relations.
I also participated in regular meetings of the Budget Affairs Council, the Capital Affairs Council,
Student Fee Advisory Committee, and numerous other campus and university committees, which
provided me with valuable insights into the process of shared governance in the University of
California. I gained a sophisticated understanding of the administration of a large research
university.

Associate Dean, Graduate Division, University of California,

Santa Barbara (UCSB) 1984-87
Primarily responsible for the development and administration of programs for the recruitment and
retention of non-minority women and minority graduate students. Provided leadership in the area of
fund raising and program development.
Several innovative programs resulted in significant strides in this area during my tenure. Although
primarily responsible for managing affirmative action programs and fellowships in the division, I
was broadly responsible for the administration of the division in the Dean's absence.

Acting Dean, Graduate Division, UCSB March-June 1985

Continued functions as Associate Dean and added the functions of the Dean. Responsible for all
aspects of the administration of graduate programs. Supervised the administration of admissions,
quality control procedures, fellowships, and student advisement. Served as ex-officio member of the
Graduate Council and provided staff support to the Council. Represented the Dean at Public
functions and on UC Systemwide Council of Graduate Deans.

Chair, Department of Black Studies, UCSB 1983-84

Administered this small department of ten faculty. Provided leadership in curriculum development.
Conducted a search for five faculty positions, prepared promotion and/or tenure dossiers for five
faculty. Developed several programs, designed to improve the quality and visibility of the
department.

Director, Consortium for Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Minorities

Fellowship Program 1982-83
Housed at Indiana University, Bloomington, this consortium involves all Big Ten universities and
the University of Chicago. As director I managed a multi-million dollar fellowship fund for
minority graduate students in all fields. The funds for the fellowships were provided by three
private foundations. I also managed all of Indiana's minority graduate fellowships, and served as a
member of the Graduate School's management team.

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Teaching Experience

Professor of Political Science, UCLA 1990-present

Professor of Political Science, UCSB 1986-89

Associate Professor of Political Science, UCSB 1983-86

Associate Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 1980-83

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington 1974-80

Visiting Professor of Government, Dartmouth College, Summer 1979

Visiting Professor of Political Science, Xavier University (New Orleans) Summer 1975

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of

Wisconsin, Madison 1974

Preferred Teaching Areas

Seminar: African Politics

Seminar: Comparative Regime Change

Seminar: Comparative Political Transitions

Seminar: The Politics of Cultural Pluralism and Nationalism in Africa

Seminar: The Politics of Cultural Pluralism in Africa in Comparative Perspective

Seminar: Political Transitions in Africa

Seminar: Comparative Political Transitions

Seminar: The Political Economy of Development

Seminar: The Politics of Change in Africa

Seminar: Development Policy Analysis

African Politics

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The Politics of North-East Africa

The Politics of Cultural Pluralism in Africa
Revolution and Violence

University of California Service

Systemwide Service

Member of the University of California President’s

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program Selection Committee 1994,1998, 2006

Member, Study Commission on Regional Conflict/ Diplomatic Initiatives,

an activity of the Project for Soviet-U.S.Cooperation for Africa 1990-93

Member, Advisory Committee on the Establishment of the TransAfrica

Forum Library and Resource Center (Washington, D.C.) 1990-91

Member, Advisory Committee on the Urban Community Schools Collective 1991-present

Member, Committee of Academic Personnel Ad Hoc

Committee for UCSD 1991

Member, Task Force on Black Student Eligibility 1986-90

Member of the Senior Vice President for Academic

Affairs Working Group on Academic Advancement 1989-90

Member, Academic Affairs, Long-Range Planning Working Group 1989-90

Member, Search Committee for Director of the School

Improvement Program 1989

Member, Advisory Committee for the Committee on Higher

Education Opportunities for Black South Africans 1985-91

Member, Subcommittee on Research, Task Force on Black Student Eligibility 1987-90

Chair, Social Science Section of the Selection Committee

of the President's Postdoctoral Fellowships Program 1986-90

Member, Faculty Affirmative Action Advisory Committee 1985-87

Member, UC Committee on Higher Education Opportunities

for Black South Africans 1985

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Member, Special Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Diversity 1985-86

Member, President's Fellowship Advisory Committee 1984-87

Member, Advisory Group for the Pre-Faculty Development Program 1984-85

Member, Graduate and Professional Student Affirmative

Action Advisory Committee 1984-89

Member, Africa Subcommittee Systemwide Education Abroad

Program Advisory Committee 1984-89

University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)

Campus Service

Chair, Department of Political Science 2008-

Member, College of Letters and Sciences Reform Committee 2008

Chair, African Studies Advisory Committee 2007-

Member, Departmental Graduate Studies Committee 2007-8

Member, Departmental Executive Committee 2007-8

Member, Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee for Faculty Promotion to

Professor Step VI 2003

Member, Center for Community Partnerships Advisory Committee 2003-05

Member, Departmental Graduate Admissions Committee 2002-05

Member, Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee for Faculty Promotion to

Professor Step VI 2002

Member Search Committee for the Assistant to the Associate Vice Chancellor
for Community Partnerships 2002

Member, IDP Committee on International Development Studies 2002-present

Member, IDP Committee on Afro-American Studies 2002-present

Member, Departmental Fourth Year Appraisal Committee 2002

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Search Committee Member, ISOP IDP Chair 2002

Member of the Academic Senate Campus Climate Sub-committee of the

Gender Equity Committee 2001-04

Member, UCLA Ralph Bunche Centenery Celebration Committee 2001-04

Chair, Search Committee for the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity 2001-02

Chair, Ralph Bunche Distinguished Chair in International Affairs 2001-03

Political Science Department Representative to the Academic Legislature of

The UCLA Academic Senate 2000-03

Member, Academic Senate, Committee on Diversity and Equal Opportunity 2000-03

Chair, Comparative Politics Field Subcommittee of the Department

Graduate Studies Committee 1999-02

Member of the Search Committee for a Professor of African and

International Education, UCLA GSEIS 1998-99

Member of the Omnibus Search Committee, African American Studies 1998-99

Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for

African American Studies 1998-present

Member, Departmental Executive Committee 1997-2000

Member of IDP Advisory Committee, African American Studies 1997-present

Member of the Search Committee for the Director of Summer Sessions 1997-present

Member of the Search Committee for the Director of Academic

Personnel, College of Letters and Sciences 1997

Chair, Departmental Executive Committee 1996-98

Member, Departmental Merit Review Committee 1996

Member, Search Committee for the Director of the Center

for Latin American Studies 1995

Member, Search Committee, Graduate School of Education 1994-95

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Member of the ISOP Dissertation Fieldwork Selection Committee 1994-95

Member, ISOP Faculty Research Awards Committee 1993-95

Member, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for

African-American Studies 1991-present

Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee for the Center for

African-American Studies 1991-92

Member, Faculty Advisory Committee of the James S. Coleman

African Studies Center 1990-92

Member, Departmental Executive Committee 1991-92

Member, Advisory Committee Center for African American Studies 1991-92

Member, Departmental Merit Review Committee 1991-92

Member, Departmental Target Opportunity Committee 1990-2001

Member, Graduate Council 1990-93

Chair, Fellowships Committee, Graduate Council 1991-93

Member, Ralph Bunche Chair, Search Committee 1990-91

Member, Advisory Committee, African Studies,

M.A. Degree Program 1990-present

Member, Faculty Conference Committee for the UCLA

International Conference on the Impact of Natural Disasters 1990-91

Chair, Committee on Academic Personnel Ad Hoc Committee 1991

University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Campus Service

Member, Education Abroad Advisory Committee for Africa 1986-87

Member, Athletic Policy Committee 1986-87

Coordinator, President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 1986-87

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Coordinator, Committee on Higher Education Opportunities for Black

South Africans 1986-87

Member, Jackson State University/UCSB Cooperation

Advisory Committee 1986-87

Member, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Minority Affairs 1985-87

Chaired numerous graduate fellowship and mentorship committees 1983-87

Chair, Department of Black Studies Search Committee 1983-84

National and International Service

Co-Program Chair of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the

American Political Science Association 2006-08

At Large Member of the Strategic Planning Committee,

African Studies Association 2006-present

Member, Executive Committee of the African Political Science Association 2005-08

President, North American Chapter of the African Political Science Association 2005-08

President, Diaspora Chapter of the African Association of Political Science 2005-present

Radio and Television Interviews: Urban Radio, CCN-International, CNBC 2004-05

NPR, BBC

Member, American Political Science Association Nominations Committee 2003-05

Member, Board of Studies, Pacific Council on International Policy 2002-present

External Review Committee, Ohio State University Department of

African American and African Studies 2002

Member, African Studies Association Distinguished Africanist Awards

Committee 2001-03

Testified before the U.S. House of Representatives,

Africa Subcommittee on Eritrea–Ethiopia War: U.S. Policy Options May 1999

Radio and Television Interviews: NPR, Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Pacifica Radio

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Washington, DC, Voice of America, CNN on the Ethiopia-Eritrea War February 1999

Reviewer, MacArthur Foundation, Peace and Security

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program 1998-99

Member, American Council of Learned Societies,

Post-doctoral Screening Committee 1998-99

Member, Selection Committee, National Science Foundation

Doctoral Fellowships for minorities and women 1998

Member, Blue Ribbon Panel for the review of the Government and
International Studies Department, University of South Carolina 1997

Member, External Review Committee for the Department of Social

Science, College of Letters and Sciences, Savannah State University, 1997

Member, National Summit on African Experts Group 1997-2000

Chair, National Summit on Africa Expert Group on Democracy

and Human Rights 1997-2000

Member, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Academic

Advisory Group on the African Odyssey Project 1997-2000

Member Advisory Committee, Ford Foundation-Global

Diasporas Project at Cal. State Domingues Hills 1996-present

Member, US Museum of Natural History Advisory Panel on the

African Voices project 1995-2000

Founding Member, Pacific Council on International Policy 1994

Executive Committee of the Comparative Politics Section

of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 1995-96

Chair, American Political Science Association,

James Madison Award Committee 1995-96

Chair, Social Science Research Council Africa Dissertation

Fieldwork Selection Committee 1994-96

Member, Overseas Development Council 1993-2000

Member, Board of Directors, African Refugee Center 1993-present

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Consulted with the Carter Center, Emory University 1993

Member, Board of Directors, TransAfrica Forum 1993-98

Member, TransAfrica Forum Scholars Advisory Council 1993-98

Member, SSRC Dissertation Fieldwork Selection

Committee for Africa 1991-96

APSA, Annual Meeting Comparative Politics Section Leader 1991-92

Member, Council on Foreign Relations 1990-present

Member, TransAfrica, Library and Resource Center

Advisory Committee 1990-91

Testified before the U.S. Senate Africa Subcommittee,

Committee on Foreign Affairs on Political Conflict in Ethiopia (May) 1991

Testified before the U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Hunger and Foreign
Affairs on The Politics of War, Drought and Famine in Ethiopia (February) 1990

Member, Council on Foreign Relations Study Group

on Conflict in the Horn of Africa 1989-90

Consultant to President Jimmy Carter on Eritrean Peace Negotiations 1989-90

Treasurer, African Association of Political Scientists,

North American Chapter 1987-2000

Consultant to U.S. State Department on Ethiopia 1988

Testified before the U.S. House of Representatives,

Joint Committee on Human Rights in Ethiopia 1985

Testified before the Indiana University Board of Trustees

on Responsible Investment Policy in South Africa 1985

Chair, Social Science Selection Committee, National Academy

of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities 1985-86

Member, Nominations Committee Western Political Science Association 1985-86

Chair, Overseas Projects Committee, Oxfam-America 1986-89

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Member, Board of Directors, Oxfam-America 1985-89

Program Chair, African Studies Association Annual Meeting 1985

Comparative Politics Section Leader, Political Science

Association Annual Meeting 1985-86

Associate Director, CIC Summer Institute in Social Science 1982

Director, CIC Minorities Fellowship Program 1982-83

Chair, African Studies Association, Current Issues Committee 1980-84

Editorial Services

Editorial Board, Globalizations 2003-present

Editorial Board, Africa Insight 1999-2008

Editor, TransAfrica Forum 1993-97

Editor, Journal of African Policy Studies 1993-97

Editorial Board, National Journal of Political Science 1992-present

Editorial Board, Horn of Africa 1990-present

Editorial Board, Ethiopian Review 1990-92

Editorial Board, The Horn Review 1990-96

Associate Editor, Western Political Quarterly 1987-2000

Editor, Issue: A Journal of Africanist Opinion 1982-87

Since 1986, I have served as a reviewer for APSR , African Studies Review, Journal of African
Policy Studies, TransAfrica forum, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Journal of Governance,
Western Political Quarterly, Journal of American Politics, Journal of Politics, NSF, NEG, McArthur
Foundation and USIP, University of California Press, Princeton University Press, Indiana
University Press, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Westview Press, Encyclopedia Britannica, Colliers
Yearbook, Mellam Publishers, Library of Congress, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Palgrave
Press.

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Publications

Books

Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters, edited with Donald Rothchild. Boulder, Colorado:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.

Africa in The New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security, edited
with Donald Rothchild. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.

South Africa in Southern Africa: Domestic Change and International Conflict, edited with Louis A.
Picard. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1989.

Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic. Bloomington: Indiana University

Press, 1988.

Afromarxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy, edited with Donald Rothchild. Boulder,
Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987.

Education, Manpower and Development: The Impact of Educational Policy in Kenya. Nairobi:
Kenya Literature Bureau, 1980.

Articles

African Politics

“Secessionism in Africa,” Journal of African Policy Studies, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 1.

“Ethiopia,” in Countries at the Crossroads 2007: A Survey of Democratic Governance, ed. Sanja
Tatic (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

“Politico-Administrative Reform and Political Transition in Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South

Africa,” International Journal of African Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp 3-36.

“Federalism, Citizenship and National Identity in Ethiopia,” International Journal of African

Studies, with Edith M. Omwami, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp 37- 69.

“Africa in Transition: Facing the Challenges of Globalization,” Harvard International Review,

(Summer 2007), pp 46-51.

“Africa and The United States: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization,” in Donald Rothchild
and Edmond J. Keller, eds. Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2006.

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“The Special Case of the Horn of Africa” with Ruth Iyob, in Donald Rothchild and Edmond J.
Keller, eds. Africa-US Relations: Strategic Encounters. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2006.

“US Policy in the Horn: Grappling with a Difficult Legacy,” with Ruth Iyob, in Dorina Bekoe,
ed., East Africa and the Horn: Confronting Challenges to Good Governance. Boulder, Colorado:
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.

“Obstacles to Implementing Territorial Decentralization: The first Decade of Ethiopian

Federalism,” with Lahra Smith.in Donald Rothchild and Philip Roeder, eds. Sustainable Peace:
Power and Democracy after Civil Wars. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005.

“Making and Remaking State and Nation in Ethiopia,” in Ricardo Rene Laremont, ed, Borders,
Nationalism, and the African State, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005

“Understanding Conflicts in the Horn of Africa,” in Chandra Lakha Sriram and Zoe Nielsen.
Exploring Subregional Conflict: Opportunities for Conflict Prevention. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 2004.

“Ethnic Federalism and Democracy in Ethiopia,” Horn of Africa, Vol. XXI (2003), pp 30-43.

“Ethnic Federalism, Fiscal Reform, Development and Democracy in Ethiopia,” African Journal of
Political Science, Vol. 7, No. 1 (June 2002), pp 21-50.

“Political Institutions, Agency and Contingent Compromise: Understanding Democratic

Consolidation and Reversal in Africa,” National Political Science Review, Vol. 7, 1999, pp.96-115.

“Democracy and Human Rights,” National Summit on Africa, Washington, DC: 1998, co-authored
with Francis Deng, John Entelis, Peter Takirambudi, Pala Achola-Oyeyo.

“Globalization, African Studies and the Academy,” Centre D’etude D’Afrique Noire, University of
Bordeaux, France, Working Papers. No. 57, 1998.

“Regime Change and Ethno-Regionalism in Ethiopia: The Case of the Oromo,” in Asafa Jalata, ed.
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse. The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1998.

“Transnational Ethnic Conflict in Africa,” in David Lake and Donald Rothchild, eds. The
International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 1998.

“Rethinking African Regional Security,” in David Lake and Patrick Morgan, eds. Regional Orders.
State College, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

"Structure, Agency and Political Liberalization in Africa," Journal of African Political Science, Vol.
1, No. 2 (December 1996), pp. 202-216.

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“The Ethnogenesis of the Oromo Nation and Its Implications for Contemporary Politics in
Ethiopia,” The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1995), pp. 621-634.

“The Social Dimension of Reform in Transitional Economies: The Cases of Mozambique and
Ethiopia,” in Asfaw Kumssa and Haider Al Khan, eds., Lessons from Five Low-income Developing
Countries, (NAGOYA,:1996) pp. 105-117.

“Toward a New African Political Order: An Introduction” in Edmond J. Keller and Donald
Rothchild, eds., Africa and the New International Order: New Perspectives on State Sovereignty
and Regional Security, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.

"African Conflict Management in the New World Order," Institute for Global Conflict and
Cooperation Policy Paper No. 13, 1995.

“Liberalization, Democratization and Democracy in Africa: Comparative Perspectives,” Africa

Insight, No. 4, 1995.

“The Imperatives of Regional Studies of Africa: Directions for New Research,” APSA-CP
Newsletter, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1995.

“Remaking the Ethiopian State,” in I.W. Zartman, ed., Collapsed States: The Disintegration and
Restoration of Legitimate Authority, Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1995.

“The Ethnogenesis of the Oromo Nation and Its Implications for Politics in Ethiopia,” The Journal
of Modern African Studies, Vol. 33, No.4, December, 1995, pp. 135-139.

“Decolonization, Independence and the Failure of Politics,” in Patrick O’ Meara and Phyllis Martin,
eds., Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 156-171.

“Majority Rule and Minority Rights: American Federalism and African Experience,” with Barbara
Thomas-Woolley, The Journal of Modern African Studies, (Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp.
411-427.

“The Eritrean National Question,” in Bernard Schechterman and Martin Slann, eds. The Nationalist
Dimension in International Relations, (New York: Praeger, 1993).

“Ethiopia: Politics and Government,” in Ethiopia: A Country Profile, (Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress,1993) pp. 401-493.

“Towards a New African Order? Presidential Address to the 1992 Annual Meeting of the African
Studies Association,” African Studies Review, Vol. 36, No. 2 (September 1993).

“The United States, Ethiopia, and Eritrean Self-Determination,” in Amare Tekle, ed., International
Dimensions of the Eritrean Question, (Trenton, [NJ]: The Red Sea Press, 1993).

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“Whither Afromarxist Regimes?” The Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2, (Fall 1992).

“Drought, War, and the Politics of Famine in Ethiopia and Eritrea,” The Journal of Modern African
Studies, Volume 40, No. 4, (December, 1992).

“Eritrean Self-determination Revisited,” Africa Today, Vol. 38, No. 2, (1991) pp. 7-14.

“Political Change and Political Science Research in Africa,” Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Volume
XX/1, (Winter 1991).

“The O.A.U. and the Ogaden Dispute,” in Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, ed., Conflict in the Horn of
Africa, (Atlanta: African Studies Association Press, 1991).

“The State in Contemporary Africa: A Critical Assessment of Theory and Practice,” in Dankwart
Rustow and Kenneth Erickson, eds., Comparative Political Dynamics: Global Research
Perspectives, (New York: Harper & Collins, 1991).

“Rejoiner to Mamdani,” Codesria Bulletin, No. 3 (1990).

“Constitutionalism and the National Question in Africa: The Case of Eritrea,” in Marina Ottaway,
ed., The Political Economy of Ethiopia, (New York: Praeger, 1990).

“Revolution and the Collapse of Traditional Monarchies in the 20th Century: The Case of
Ethiopia,” in Barry Schutz and Robert Slater, eds., Revolutionary Changes in the Third World,
(Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 1990).

"Constitutionalism and Self-determination: The Case of Eritrea," in Cuadernos Informativos de

Derecho Historico Publico, Procesal y de la Navegacion, No. ll, (Barcelona) (1990).

“Revolution and State Power in Ethiopia,” in Current History: A World Affairs Journal, Vol. 87,
No. 529, (May, 1988).

“Afro-Marxist Regimes,” in Edmond J. Keller and Donald Rothchild eds., Afro-Marxist

Regimes: Ideology and Policy, (1987).

“The Politics of State Survival: Continuity and Change in Ethiopian Foreign Policy,” Annals of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 489, (January, 1987) pp. 76-87.

“Ethiopian Socialism, Decentralization, and the Political Economy of Agricultural Development,”

in Louis A. Picard and Raphael Zariski, eds., Subnational Politics in the 1980s:
Organization, Reorganization and Economic Development, (1987).

“Nationalism, Independence and Beyond,” in Phyllis Martin and Patrick O'Meara, Africa, 2nd
Edition, (1986).

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“United States Policy on the Horn of Africa: Policymaking with Blinders On,” in Richard Sklar,
Gerald Bender and James S. Coleman, eds., African Crisis Areas and United States Foreign Policy,
(1985).

“Revolutionary Ethiopia: Ideology, Capacity and the Limits of State Autonomy,” Journal of
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, (1985) pp. 112-139.

“State, Party and Revolution in Ethiopia,” African Studies Review, Vol. 28, No. 1, (1985), pp. 1-17.

“The Ethiopian Revolution: How Socialist Is It?” Journal of African Studies, Vol. II, No. 2, (1984).

“The Ethiopian Revolution at the Crosswords,” Current History: A World Affairs Journal, Vol. 83,
No. 491, (March, l984).

“The Revolutionary Transformation of Ethiopia's Bureaucratic Empire,” in Pearl T. Robinson and

Elliot P. Skinner, eds., Resiliency and Transformation in Africa, (1983).

“The State, Public Policy and the Mediation of Ethnic Conflict,” in V. Olorusnola and D. Rothchild,
eds., State Versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas, (1983).

“Development Policy and the Evaluation of Community Self-help: The Harambee School
Movement in Kenya,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 10, No 4, (1983).

“Ethiopia: Revolution, Class and the National Question,” African Affairs, Vol. 80, No. 321,
(October, 1981) pp. 519-50.

"Ethiopia: The Revolutionary Transformation of a 20th Century Bureaucratic Empire," Journal of

Modern African Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, (June, 1981) pp. 307-36.

“Education, Ethnicity and Political Socialization in Kenya,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 12,
No. 4, (January, 1980) pp. 442-69.

“The Political Socialization of Adolescents in Contemporary Africa: The Role of the School in
Kenya,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 10, No. 2, (January, 1978) pp. 227-50.

“Decolonization and the Struggle for Independence,” in P.O. O'Meara and P. Martin, eds., Africa.
Bloomington, Indiana: University Press, (1977).

“Harambee! Educational Policy, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Rural Community Self-
help Organization,” Journal of African Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, (Spring, 1977) pp. 86-101.

“The Use of Film for Teaching and Research: African Social Change,” Kenya Educational Review,
Vol. 3, No. 1, (June, 1976) pp. 76-81.

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“The Role of Self-help in Education for Development: The Harambee School Movement in
Kenya,” in Matthew Holden, Jr. and Dennis L. Dresang, eds., What Government Does, (1975).

“Urbanization and the Emergence of the Politics of Independence: The Belgian Congo (Zaire),”
Mawazo, (January,1974).

“A Twentieth Century Model: The Mau Mau Transformation from Social Banditry to Social
Rebellion,” Kenya Historical Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, (1973).

Black Politics
“The Legacy of Frantz Fanon and Black Politics in America,” in Francois N. Muyuba and Esther
Atcherson, eds., From Third World to One World: A Pan-African Perspective, (1988).

“Black Americans and U.S. Policy on the Horn of Africa,” TransAfrica Forum, Vol. 2, No. 3,
(August, 1984).
“Mayoral Performance, Organization and the Political Economy of the Black Vote: Electoral
Politics in Gary,” Urban Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1, (September, 1979) pp. 43-64.

“The Impact of Black Mayors on Urban Policy,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science, No.439,(September, 1978) pp. 40-52

Contributions to Reference Works

“Africa,” The Americana Annual 1999 (Canada: Grolier Limited, 1999) pp. 103-106

“Ethiopia,” Encyclopedia Britannica 1999 (London: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 1999), pp. 434-
435

“Eritrea,” Encyclopedia Britannica 1999 (London: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 1998), pp.433-434

“Ethiopia,” Encyclopedia Britannica 1998 (London: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 1998), pp. 423-
424.

“Eritrea,” Encyclopedia Britannica 1998 (London: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc., 1998), p. 423.

“Ethiopian Revolution,” The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions, (Washington, D.C.:

Congressional Quarterly, c1998.) xxxviii, 580 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.

“Ethiopia,” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 1997 (Microsoft Corporation, 1997)

“Eritrea,” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 1997 (Microsoft Corporation, 1997)

“Ethiopia and Eritrea,” Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbook (Collier, NY: F.P. Collier, L.P, 1995),
1250 words, pp. 224-225.

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“Afro-Marxism,” in Oxford University Press Companion to World Politics, (1992) p. 13.

Newspaper Contributions

“World Begins to React to the Tragedy of Sudan,” San Diego Union Tribune, (September 28, 2004)

Curriculum Development

A Study Guide for Political Science Y320: Black Politics (a correspondence course). Bloomington,
Indiana: University School of Continuing Studies, 1980; revised 1983.

Higher Education

“Introduction: Diversity and Faculty Renewal,” Position Papers: All University Conference on
Graduate and Faculty Affirmative Action. University of California, (1990).

“Faculty Roles in Recruiting and Retaining Graduate Students,” with Lavelle Ure and Karen
Nelson, Position Papers: All-University Faculty Conference on Graduate and Faculty Affirmative
Action. University of California, (1990).

“Models of Community-Based Intervention Programs for Academic Improvement Among African

Americans,” Vols. I and II, with Hardy Frye, Nadine Julius and Ella M. Kelley. Berkeley,
California: Task Force on Black Students Eligibility, (1990).

“Crisis in Graduate Education for Minorities,” The Journal of State Government, Vol. 61, No. 2,
(March/April, 1988).

Work Forthcoming or in Progress

“Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph Bunche and the Decolonization of Africa,” co-edited
with Robert Hill, (Oxford, OH: University of Ohio Press, 2008, (Forthcoming).

HIV?AIDS in Africa: Challenges and Impact, co-edith with Edith Omwami and Steve Commins,
Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 2008 Fforthcoming).

“Constitutionalism, Citizenship and Political Transitions in Ethiopia: Historic and

Contemporary Processes”, Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, forthcoming 2008.

Book Reviews

Reviewer for: Indiana University Press, Westview Press, United States Institute for Peace Press,
The Brookings Institution, Red Sea Press, Lynne Rienner Publications, University of California
Press.

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Ethnic Federalism: The Ethiopian Experience in Comparative Perspective, ed, David Turton. Ohio
University Press, International Journal of African Historical StudiesVol. 40, No. 1 (2007).

The Trampled Grass: Mitigating the Impacts of Armed Conflict on the Environment,
Environmental Change and Security Project, (Summer 2002)

States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey Herbsts, Princeton University Press, International Studies
Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 2002).

Zones of Peace in the Third World: Latin America and Africa in Comparative Perspective
By Arie M. Kacowicz, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998, in American Political
Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 3 (September 2000).

The Poverty of Nations: The Aid Dilemma at the Heart of Africa, by James Morton, Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania State University (1997) in Studies in Comparative International Development. Vol.
32, 4 (Winter 1998).

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-43 by Ruth
Iyob. The International History Review, Vol.XV11, 4 (November 1996).

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1945- 1993 by Ruth
Iyob. American Science Review. Volume 90, Number 3, (September 1996), pp. 698-99.

The Ethiopian Revolution 1974-1987: A transformation from an Aristocratic to a Totalitarian

Autocracy by Andragachew Tiruneh. London: Cambridge University Press, (1993).

Gabru Tereke, Ethiopia: Power and Protest--Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. New York:
Cambridge, 1991, in The American Historical Review, (1993).

Julius E. Nyang'oro and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., Corporatism in Africa: Comparative Analysis and
Practice. Boulder, [CO]: Westview, 1989, in Canadian Journal of African Studies,(1991).

Peasants and Nationalism in Eritrea: A Critique of Ethiopian Studies by Jordan Gebre-Medhin.

Journal of Northeast African Studies, (1991).

Integrated Rural Development: The Ethiopian Experience and the Debate, by John Cohen in
Canadian Journal of African Studies, (1990).

The Ethiopian Transformation: The Quest for the Post-Imperial State, by John W. Harbeson, in The
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, No. 507, (January, 1990) pp. 149-
50.

Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia by Dawit Wolde Giorgis; The Long Struggle
for Eritrean Independence and Constructive Peace by Lionel Cliffe and Basil Davidson, eds., and

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Surrender or Starve: The Wars Behind Famine by Robert D. Kaplan. Journal of Third World
Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, (Fall 1989) pp. 304-310.

Black Political Mobilization: Leadership, Power and Mass Behavior, by Minion KC Morrison and,
WhoseVote Counts? Affirmation Action and Minority Voting Rights, Abigail Thernstrom.
American Political Science Review, (Summer, 1988).

From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia by James McCann, American Historical Review,
(February, 1989).

C.O.C. Amate, Inside the OAU: Pan Africanism in Practice in The Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 498, (July, 1988).

Daniel R. Smith, The Influence of the Fabian Colonial Bureau of the Independence Movement in
Tanganyika, in The American Historical Review, (Fall, 1986).

C. Legum and Bill Lee, the Continuing Crisis on the Horn of Africa, in the Journal of North East
African Studies, (1980).
G. Holtham and A. Hazelwood, Aid and Inequality in Kenya, in the Journal of Modern Studies,
(September, 1978), Vol. 16, No. 3.

A. Bozeman, Conflict in Africa; J. Barkan, An African Dilemma; University Students Development

and Politics in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda; and S. Decalo, Coups and Army Rule in Africa, in the
Journal of Politics, Vol. 39, No. 2,(May, 1977), pp. 496-500.

C. Hyden, et. al. Development Administration: The Kenyan Experience; J. Finucane, Rural
Development and Bureaucracy in Tanzania; and T. Chambers, Managing Rural Development in
Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3, (September, 1976), pp. 536-39.

Michael Cohen, Urban Policy and Political Conflict in African Journal of Modern African Studies,
Vol. 23, No. 3, (September, 1975), pp. 552-54, and in the Journal of Politics, (November, 1975), p.
1090.

Henry Bienen, Kenya, and H. Kindy, Life and Politics in Mombassa, in the Journal of Modern
African Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4, (December, 1974), pp. 681-84.

G.M. Frederickson, Black Images in the White Mind and L. Henderson, Black Political Life in the
United States, in the Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 12, No. 1, (March,1974), pp. 158-160.

Invited Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings (a selected listing)

“Ethiopia and the Challenge of Regional Security in the Horn of Africa,” The Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, October 29, 2007.

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“Governance in the Context of Political Instability in Ethiopia,” US State Department Seminar

on Ethiopia, Washington, DC, August 1, 2006

“Conflict Management and Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa,” Presentation at the

University of Pittsburgh at a workshop on Conflict and Conflict Management in Africa, March
25, 2006.

Presented a paper, “Political Partitition, Irredentism, and Secession in Africa,” at a conference

sponsored by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, and the Solomon
Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania, on Managing
Ethno-Political Conflicts in Africa,University of Pennsylvania, February 24-25, 2006

“The United States and Africa: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization and Human Security,”
Prepared for Presentation at the Tufts University Program for Africa and the New World Lecture
Series, Medford, Massachusetts, April 6, 2005
Presented a paper, “The Sudan Crisis in Perspective: Darfur and the Wider Problem,” at the
University of California-San Diego, African and African-American Studies Program, January 20,
2005.

Presentation at the UCLA Darfur Action Committee Week of Awareness on “Genocide and
Denial: Past, Present, and Future,” February 28, 2005.

Presented a paper, “Governance, Citizenship, and National Identity in Contemporary Ethiopia,”

at the James S. Coleman African Studies Center Special Forum on Contemporary Ethiopia:
Revolution and Transformation, March 19, 2005.

Presented a paper, “The United States and Africa: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization and
Human Security,” at the Tufts University Program for Africa and the New World Lecture Series,
Medford, Massachusetts, April 6, 2005

Presented a Paper, “Africa and the New Face of World War: International Terrorism,” Uongozi
Institute, University of Dar es Salaam, July 16, 2004.

Presented a Paper, “The African Union: Building Effectiveness for African Conflict
Management,” The International Peace Academy Roundtable Series: Ad Hoc Working Group on
Africa, United Nations Security Council, Millennium Hotel, New York, New York, June 7, 2004

Presented a paper, “Africa-US Relations in the Era of Globalization,” University of Notre Dame,
Notre Dame, Indiana, September 24, 2003.

Presented a paper, “US Policy in the Horn of Africa: Continuity and Change,” (with Ruth Iyob)
at a seminar entitled Building Peace in East Africa, sponsored by the International Peace
Academy, at Entebbe, Uganda, December 18, 2002.

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Presented a paper at the 2002 annual meeting of the African Studies Association, “The Making
and Remaking of State and Nation in Ethiopia,” December 8, 2002, Washington, DC.

Presented a paper, “The State and Civil Society in Africa Revisited,” at a conference organized
by the African and African-American Studies Research Project, University of California, San
Diego, Transitions to Democracy, State Formation, and Identity in Africa, March 8, 2002

Presented a paper, “The Politics of Ethnic Federalism in Ethiopia,” University of Wisconsin,

Madison, April 3, 2002

Participated in a conference sponsored by the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy
Research and the Globalization Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Democratization in the Context of Globalization and Regionalization, March 18-20, 2002,
Magdalen College, Oxford University, United Kingdom

Served as a resource person at a “Regional Conference for African Parliamentarians on Recent

Strategic Development Initiatives in Africa,” in Accra, Ghana, April 18-20, 2002. The
conference was sponsored by the African Leadership Forum.

Presented a paper, “The Enduring and Changing Role of the Social Sciences in African
Development in the Era of Globalization,” at the University of Asmara International Research
Symposium, June 15-19, 2002, Asmara, Eritrea.

Presented a paper, “Ethnic Federalism, Fiscal Reform and Democracy in Ethiopia,” at the
African Studies Association Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, November 15-18, 2001.

Served as a resource person at a “Regional Conference for African Parliamentarians on Recent

Strategic Development Initiatives in Africa,” in Accra, Ghana, April 18-20, 2002. The
conference was sponsored by the African Leadership Forum.

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“The Politics of Ethnic Federalism in Africa,” Center for Democracy and Development, Accra,
Ghana, August 22, 2001.

“Human Rights, Justice and Regional Security: The Case of Slavery in Modern Africa,” Keynote
Address, Annual Conference of the Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution, May 4, 2001,
Sacramento State University.

“African Studies in the United States: Past, Present and Future,” Keynote address delivered at the
Southern Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Africa, Kentucky State University, April 13-14, 2001.

“Africa and the Challenge of Globalization,” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, March 15,
2001.

“Culture, Politics and the Transnationalization of Ethnic Conflict in Africa in the Era of
Globalization,” International Conference: Africa at the Turn of the Century, Istituto Superior de
Ciencias do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-23, 2000.

“The Transnationalization of Social Conflict in Africa in the Era of Globalization,” The 21st
Conference of Heads of State of Africa and France, Sponsored by the United Nations Development
Program, September 10-12, 2000, Yaounde, Cameroon.

“Intellectual Empowerment and Social Development: Rights, Resources and Responsibility,” at the
1998 Ford Foundation Fellows Annual Conference, Newport Beach, California.

“Africa, the United States and the New African Order,” lecture presented at the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, February 24, 1998.

Presented a paper, “Political Institutions, Agency and Contingent Compromise: Understanding

Democratic Consolidation and Reversal in Africa,” at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Washington D.C.
“The Social Dimensions of Reform in Transitional Economies: The Cases of Mozambique and
Ethiopia,” International Seminar on Transitional Economies and Regional Economic Development
Strategies in Developing Countries, held in Nagoya, Japan, April 9-11, 1996.

“Policy Challenges of Transnational Ethnic Conflict in Africa,” United Nations High-Level

Symposium on Peace and Development: Problems of Conflict in Africa, held in Tokyo, Japan,
October 11-12, 1995.

“Liberalization, Democratization and Democracy in Africa: Comparative Perspectives,” a public

seminar at the Africa Institute in South Africa, July 14, 1995

"African Conflict Management and the New World Order," at the Institute on Global Conflict and
Cooperation Fifth Workshop, May 5-6, 1995.

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“The Ethnogenesis of the Oromo Nation and its Implications for Contemporary Politics in
Ethiopia,” at the Transnationalization of Ethnicity and World Politics Conference, by the
International Affairs Center, Howard University, April 6-7, 1995.

“Ethno-regionalism and Democracy in Ethiopia,” at the African Studies Association Annual

Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November,1994.

Participant, White House Conference on Africa, June 26-27,1994.

Organized and chaired a seminar jointly sponsored by the James S. Coleman African Studies Center
and the World Bank, “African Development Reconsidered,” UCLA Conference Center, Lake
Arrowhead, California, June 13-15, 1994.

Chaired Associates in Rural Development Seminar on “Civil Society and Democratization in

Africa,” Washington, D.C., June 9-10, 1994.

“Rethinking African Regional Security,” IGCC Workshop, Laguna Beach, California, June 5 & 6,
1994.

“Regime Change in Africa,” at meeting of the Chinese Association for International Understanding,
Bejing, China, May 23-25, 1994.

“Political Issues: What Next?” at the seminar on "Ethiopia: Ambassadorial Seminar. Prepared for
Ambassador-designate Irvin Hicks, Washington, D.C., May 16, 1994.

“The State of African Universities Today,” at the symposium on Reflections and Re-Considerations
of African Higher Education, African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the
Fulbright Scholar Program, April 30, 1994.

“Towards a Model of Political Transition in Africa,” at the Social Science Research Council and the
American Council on Learned Societies Workshop on “Political Transitions in Africa,” University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 11-12, 1994.

Presenter on “Forum on Minorities in Higher Education: Campus Pressure Groups: The New Wave
Impacting Curriculum,” at the 76th Annual American Council on Education, Washington, D.C.,
February 21, 1994.

“The Dilemmas of African Studies in America,” at the Biennial Congress of the African Studies
Association of South Africa, Magaliesberg Conference Centre, Broederstrom, South Africa, June
17, 1993.

“The Eritrean Referendum: An International Observer's Report,” at the International Center,

Michigan State University, April 30, 1993.

“Democratization and Eritrea's Future,” at the Civic Center, Asmara, Eritrea, April 20, 1993.

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“Remaking the Ethiopian State,” at the School of Advanced International Studies Conference on
“Putting Collapsed States Back Together,” April 16-17, 1993, Washington, D.C.

“National Assembly Elections in Djibouti: Are There Lessons to be Learned?” at the Annual
Meeting of the National Conference of Black Political Scientist, Oakland, California, March 12,
1993.

“Tension Areas: The World Today: Somalia: Neither State nor Nation,” at the UCLA Extension,
Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences Conference, March, 1993.

“The Challenge of Democracy in Africa: Internal and External Factors,” at California State
University, Long Beach, February, 1993.

“Somalia: Neither State Nor Nation,” at the Winter Colloquium Series on Ethnic Conflict,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Global Peace and Security Program, January 28, 1993.

“The Somalia Crisis,” The World Affairs Council, San Diego, California, January 13, 1993.

“The New African Order?” Presidential Address at the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the African
Studies Association, November 22, 1992, Seattle, Washington.

"The Second Ethiopian Revolution," at the Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association, November 21, 1992, Seattle, Washington.

“Africa and the New World Order,” at the Conference on The Third World and the New World
Order, Pritzer College, Claremont, California, November 7, 1992.

“Which Way East Africa?” at the seminar on Democratization and Economic Reforms in Africa,
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Dominiquez Hills, California, May 4, 1992.

“Regime Transformation in Africa? Liberalization, Democratization and Democracy in Africa,”

American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September, 1991, Washington, D.C.

“U.S. - Ethiopia Relation in the Post-Cold War Era,” African Studies Association Thirty-fourth
Annual Meeting, November 20, 1991, St. Louis, Missouri.

“Self-Determination and Regional Security in Africa,” at the Study Commission on Regional

Conflict/Diplomatic Initiatives, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Nigeria, October
26, 1991.

“Drought, War, and the Politics of Famine in Ethiopia,” Conference on Natural Disasters, UCLA.
July 10-12, 1991.

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“Whither Afromarxist Regimes?” at the Second Sino-U.S. African Studies Conference, Calamingos
Ranch, Malibu, California, January 11-15, 1991.

“African Regimes in Transition: Proto-Corporatism and Organization of Politics,” Annual Meeting

of the African Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 5, 1989.

“United States Response to the African Crisis,” Annual Meeting of the African Association of
Political Science, September 18-21, 1989.

“The OAU and the Ogaden Question,” Conference on Conflict in the Horn of Africa, Madrid,
Spain, September 12-16, 1989.

“Ethiopia: Revolution and the Transformation of a Traditional Polity, Conflict and Conflict
Resolution in Africa,” a Conference Sponsored by the Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for African
Studies, April 22, 1989.

“US Africa Policy in the Bush Administration,” World Affairs Council and the United Nations
Association Forum, San Francisco, March 21, 1989.

“Horn of Africa: Empty Cornucopia?” University of Washington, March 6, 1989.

“The United States and Africa,” World Affairs Council, Seattle, Washington, March 6, 1989.

"The Modern African State in Perspective," Graduate School of the City University of New York,
September 10, 1988.

“Constitutionalism and the National Question in Africa: The Case of Eritrea,” School of Advanced
International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, April 8, 1988.

“Afro-Marxist and Afro-Marxist Regimes,” National Conference of Black Political Scientists:

Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, April 25, 1987.

“Pan Africanism and Conflict Resolution,” Indiana State University, April 24, 1987.

“Black Politics and the Coming Crisis in South Africa,” California Polytechnic State University,
April 13, 1987.

“The Theory and Practice of Afro Marxist Regimes,” Joint Center for African Studies, University of
California, Berkeley/Stanford University, March 19, 1987.

“The Politics of Socialist Transformation in Ethiopia,” Department of Political Science, University

of California, San Diego, December 9, 1986.

“The Legacy of Frantz Fanon for Black America in the 1980s,” African Association of Political
Science Regional Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, January 8, 1987.

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“From Empire to People's Republic: Continuity and Change in Authority Patterns in Ethiopia,”
African Studies Seminar, Indiana University, October 19, 1986.

“Ethiopia Socialism: The Soft State and Ideological Foundations,” Western Political Science
Association Annual Meetings, Eugene, Oregon, 1986.

"Ideology and Party Formation in Ethiopia," Fifth Annual Conference of the Joint Stanford-
Berkeley Center for African Studies, Stanford, California, May, 1985.

“U.S. Foreign Policy: Drought and Famine in the Horn of Africa,” Graduate School, The
University of Wisconsin-Madison, March, 1985.

“Ethiopian Socialism and Agricultural Development: The Pitfalls of Policymaking in a 'Soft' State,”
African Studies Program and Department of Political Science, The University of Wisconsin-
Madison, March, 1985.

“The Foreign Policy of Revolutionary Ethiopia,” International Studies and Overseas Programs,
University of California, Los Angeles, March, 1985.

“Ethiopian Socialism and the Political Economy of Rural Development,” International Symposium
on the African Horn, University of Cairo Institute of African Research and Studies, January, 1985.

“Ethiopian Socialism and the Political Economy of Agricultural Development,” Ninth Annual
Hendricks Symposium on Subnational Politics: The Problems of Intergovernmental Regulations in
a Time of Scarcity, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, November, 1984.

“U.S. Policy Toward the Horn: What Can We Learn From the Past?” Association of Concerned
Africanist Scholars Annual Meeting, October, 1984.
“Socialism or Garrison Communism,” Conference on the Continuing Crisis in the Horn of Africa,
Howard University, Washington, D.C., August, 1984.

“The State and Development in Ethiopia,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting,
Sacramento, California, April, 1984.

“Party, State and Revolution in Ethiopia and Mozambique,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1983.

“The Vanguard Party and Revolution in Ethiopia,” The Second Annual Conference on Ethiopia:
Quo Vadis Ethiopia-II, Howard University, Washington, D.C., November, 1983.

“Minority Politics in the 1980s: Can It Meet the Conservative Challenge?” 79th Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1983.

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“Black Americans and the Shaping of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa,” at the
TransAfrica Forum, Boston, Massachusetts, April, 1983.

“Black Electoral Politics: Problems and Prospects,” Lecture at the Norfolk State University Eminent
Scholars Series, Norfolk, Virginia, March 24, 1983.

Presented a paper, “U.S. Foreign Policy in the Horn of Africa: Policymaking with Blinders On,” at a
conference on African Crisis Areas and United States Foreign Policy, University of California, Los
Angeles, March 10, 1983.

“Big Power Politics on the Horn of Africa: Notes on Reagan Globalism and Soviet Expansion,”
International Center Symposium, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982.

“The State and Socialist Transformation in Ethiopia,” Conference entitled Quo Vadis Ethiopia,
Washington, D.C. November 3, 1982.

“Political Science: The State of the Art,” CIC Summer Institute, Bloomington, Indiana, 1982.

“The Socialist Transformation of Ethiopia,” National Council of Black Political Scientists Annual
Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 1982.

“The Ethiopian Revolution: Is It Socialist?” University of California, Los Angeles, February, 1982.

“The Ethiopian Revolution in Perspective,” Africa Table, Stanford University, February, 1982.

“The Mediatory Role of the State,” Conference on State Coherence and Ethnic Self-Determination,
African Dilemmas, Bellagio, Italy, June, 1981.

Consulting

Expert Testimony on political conditions in Ethiopia, The World Bank, Jan. 2006

Expert and Chair of the Committee Drafting the Working Paper on

Democracy and Human Rights for the National Summit on Africa 1997-2000

Academic Consultant to the Smithsonian Institution, Museum of

Natural History, on The African Voices Exhibit 1995-98

Academic Consultant to the Kennedy Center for the Performing

Arts on the African Odyssey Project 1997-present

Checci & Co, Head, Evaluation of USAID,

African Regional Electoral Assistance Fund 1994

Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, Georgia, on Current Politics in Ethiopia 1993

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Head of Delegation, African-American Institute Referendum Observer

Group to the Eritrean Referendum April 1993

Head of Delegation, African-American Institute Election Observer

Group to Djibouti Dec.1992

Head of Delegation, African American Institute Delegation to the

Joint International Observer Group, monitoring regional and district
election in Ethiopia Summer 1992

Prepared an “Issue Paper on Ethiopia” for U.S. Presidential Candidate

Governor William Clinton of Arkansas Dec. 1991

Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta, Georgia, on the Eritrea Ethiopia

Peace Negotiations 1989

Foreign Policy Association on the Horn of Africa 1988

U.S. State Department on Ethiopia 1988

External Evaluator for the Stanford University of California,

Berkeley Joint Center for African Studies 1986

Oxfam-America on Drought and Famine Relief in Africa 1985

The Wilson Journal on the Horn of Africa 1984

Oxfam-America on the Horn of Africa 1984

Frost and Sullivan, Inc., World Political Risk Forecast, Kenya 1983

National Endowment for the Humanities, African Studies 1983

National Endowment for the Humanities, Black Studies 1981

Ministry of Agriculture, Kenya, Agriculture Manpower Survey 1977

Visiting Research Fellow, UNECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,

conducting baseline research on non-formal education plans
and programs in East and Southern Africa 1976-77

The Ford Foundation on African Affairs 1975

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