Africa in World Politics (ePub)

John W. Harbeson is Professor of Political Science emeritus in the City University of New York in its Graduate Center and in City College. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including Civil Society and the State in Africa (with Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan), Nation Building in Kenya: The Role of Land Reform, The Ethiopian Transformation: The Quest for the Post-Imperial State and the previous editions of this book (the first three with the late Donald Rothchild). He has served as Democracy and Governance Advisor for Eastern and Southern Africa in the U.S. Agency for International Development. He has been a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow in the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is the first recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award of the African Politics Conference Group of the American Political Science Association and the African Studies Association.

Donald Rothchild (1928-2007), who co-edited the first three editions of Africa in World Politics, was one of the foremost students of African international relations, authoring or editing two dozen books and more than seventy articles over a career spanning almost 50 years. He was a Professor of Political Science at the University of California-Davis from 1965 until his death, and he was named a Distinguished Professor in 2003.