Pierre Englebert
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 143671 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pierre Englebert |
| NOMBRES | Pierre |
| APELLIDO | Englebert |
| FIRMA | ENGLEBERT P |
| AFILIACIONES | Pomona College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7116-7647 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 553 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Understanding the Dynamics of State Responses to Security Threats in the Sahel
What explains variations in Sahelian states’ responses to jihadist threats? Observing that subnational groups relate differently to the state, we suggest that historically excluded groups are more likely to develop grievances and to support jihadists if they operate in their region. The more violence in these regions, the less likely the state is to mount a forceful response and the more likely it is to delegate it to non-state actors. In making …
The war on terror in context
What explains variations in how African countries respond to security threats? How can we explain situations in which countries face a similar regional threat environment and yet respond very differently? In this article we take advantage of a natural experiment offered by instability in Somalia, which has given rise to terrorist threats to neighbours Ethiopia and Kenya. Analysing Ethiopian and Kenyan responses to instability coming from Somalia …
L’État, dans quel(s) état(s)
(In)dépendance, construction de l’État, démocratisation... Leonardo Villalón et Pierre Englebert reviennent ici sur la nature de l’État postcolonial et de ses dynamiques, notamment depuis la « troisième vague » de démocratisation des années 1990, et les régimes qui ont émergé depuis trente ans. Ils évoquent aussi leurs expériences professionnelles, leurs parcours de pensée, et leurs travaux à venir
When decentralisation undermines representation
African regimes commonly use strategies of balanced ethnic representation to build support. Decentralisation reforms, often promoted in order to improve political representation and state access, can undermine such strategies. In this article we use the example of the DR Congo to show the extent to which the multiplication of decentralised provinces is upending a political system largely based until now upon collective ethnic representation in th…
Shifting Grounds for African Secessionism?
Secessionism in African Politics
Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state. Using historical and contemporary approaches, this edited volume offers the most exhaustive collection of empirical studies of African secessionism to date. The respected expert contributors put salient and lesser known cases into comparative perspective, covering Biafra, K…
Africa’s Secessionism
Aspirations and Realities in Africa
The long-delayed Congolese presidential elections of 30 December 2018 resulted, by most credible accounts, in a landslide victory for opposition candidate Martin Fayulu, with the candidate backed by the regime of outgoing president Joseph Kabila coming a distant third. Yet a third candidate, Felix Tshisekedi, was announced the winner after he struck a power-sharing deal with Kabila. The massive legislative- and provincial-election victories that …
Secessionism in African Politics
A Potemkin state in the Sahel? The empirical and the fictional in Malian state reconstruction
Despite significant reconstruction efforts in the wake of its 2012–2013 collapse, Mali remains mired in crisis: violence is on the rise, institutions are dysfunctional, the military is inefficient, investments are few, and corruption is rampant. We suggest that Mali’s reconstruction’s failure is but the latest iteration of a general failure at building the Malian state. This failure derives from a sheer lack of resources to sustain statehood and …
Making and Unmaking Nations
Genocide studies do not make for fun reading. Scott Straus’s latest book might not violate this rule, but it bends it. This is an exciting, erudite, thought-provoking, and highly readable book. It engages with the highest levels of scholarship on genocide and African politics while remaining largely accessible to general readers, and it offers a new comparative theory of genocide that is both illuminating and intuitively appealing. Straus’s premi…
Misguided and Misdiagnosed
The DR Congo embarked upon decentralization reforms in 2006 to improve governance and accountability, undermine predation, corruption, and personal rule, bring government closer to the people, and promote local development. As of 2014, despite some regional variations, Congolese decentralization had instead increased the degree to which the state extracts the resources and incomes of its citizens. It had also fostered provincial centralization at…
The “Power-Sharing” Trap
The "Power-Sharing" Trap Pierre Englebert (bio) Power Politics in Zimbabwe. By Michael Bratton. Lynne Rienner, 2014, 281 pp. Michael Bratton, Afrobarometer's founder and now one of its senior advisors, has written a powerful and deeply personal book about Zimbabwean politics that also yields considerable comparative insights for students of democracy in other parts of Africa. Bratton was born in 1949 in what was then called Rhodesia, and spent hi…
Briefing
under the sustained assault of a coalition of youth, cultural leaders, civil society organizations and opposition parties, and after the defection of core segments of his military. Compaor had been in power since the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara on 15 October 1987. This briefing first discusses the actual sequence of events that led to the transition. We then identify some deeper trends that weakened the regime, including the d…
Contestation, négociation et résistance
Saisir l’essentiel du politique congolais n’est pas tâche aisee. Comment faire l’etat des lieux d’un Etat gigantesque ou la multitude d’acteurs rivalisent avec des institutions faibles pour creer une atmosphere constante d’incertitude et de chaos apparent ? Les observateurs occasionnels peuvent etre tentes d’affirmer que le Congo ne va nulle part, au regard des developpements de ces dernieres annees. Le cycle de violence pratiquement jamais inter…
Extraversion, vulnerability to donors, and political liberalization in Africa
In seeking to maintain their power, many African regimes rely on strategies of extraversion, converting their dependent relations with the external world into domestic resources and authority. This article assesses the relationship between extraversion and political liberalization, a dimension of African democratization that has been somewhat underappreciated in recent empirical studies. African countries vary in their extraversion portfolios, or…
Incertitude, autonomie et parasitisme
La décentralisation en République démocratique du Congo se décline sur un registre empreint d'incertitude. Celle-ci se manifeste par des tendances simultanées à la recentralisation, une profusion légale et institutionnelle contradictoire, l'arbitraire fiscal et la vulnérabilité du statut des fonctionnaires locaux. Liée à la faiblesse de l'État, cette incertitude réduit la portée de la décentralisation en termes de gouvernance mais facilite l'auto…
Africa
Though the demise of one or another African state has been heralded for nearly five decades, the map of the continent remains virtually unchanged. By and large, these states have failed to protect and promote the interests of their citizens; yet they endure. Asking why, Pierre Englebert carefully articulates the manner in which international sovereignty is translated into domestic legal command—and the sorrow that ensues.
Africa
Separatist Illusions and Sovereignty Variations
Rational Policy Fantasies
About the Book
The Resilience of the African State
The Politics of Unity and Estrangement
Sovereignty’s Shackles
Pre-Colonial Institutions, Post-Colonial States, and Economic Development in Tropical Africa
It is well known that Africa's development lags behind that of other regions. Lesser known is the substantial variance in development fortunes within Africa, with “miracle” economies compensating for the region's development disasters. Prevailing theories of Africa's average performance fail to account for intra-African disparities. Using empirical evidence from cross-sectional data, this study offers a new explanation for success and failure in …
Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa
Postconflict state reconstruction has become a priority of donors in Africa. Yet, externally sponsored reconstruction efforts have met with limited achievements in the region. This is partly due to three flawed assumptions on which reconstruction efforts are predicated. The first is that Western state institutions can be transferred to Africa. The poor record of past external efforts to construct and reshape African political and economic institu…
Dismemberment and Suffocation
Do African countries suffer from their arbitrary boundaries? The authors test several hypotheses from the debate on this question. They differentiate, one by one, the degree of arbitrariness of African boundaries along two axes: the extent to which they partition preexisting political groupings (dismemberment) and the degree to which they bring together distinct precolonial political cultures (suffocation). They find that dismemberment is positiv…
Patterns and Theories of Traditional Resurgence in Tropical Africa
Depuis le début des années quatre-vingt-dix, l'Afrique a connu un regain d'activité politique dans le chef d'organisations à bases traditionnelle. Plutôt qu'un simple retour à des formes politiques présumément pré-coloniales en réaction à l'affaiblissement de l'Etat africain, cette résurgence apparaît davantage comme l'effet dérivé d'autres tendances qui ont caractérisé cette période, à savoir la démocratisation, la crise économique et la globali…
Primary Commodities and War
Political economists argue that developing countries with abundant natural resources are likely to suffer from the curse, a double-barreled affliction of poor governance and irresponsible economic behavior.1 Analysts have applied this approach to civil wars, arguing that primary commodity dependency may stimulate armed rebellion.2 Abundant natural resources are a honey pot, tempting potential rebels to try their luck, especially in the world's po…
Briefing
under the sustained assault of a coalition of youth, cultural leaders, civil society organizations and opposition parties, and after the defection of core segments of his military. Compaor had been in power since the assassination of his predecessor Thomas Sankara on 15 October 1987. This briefing first discusses the actual sequence of events that led to the transition. We then identify some deeper trends that weakened the regime, including the d…
Born-again Buganda or the limits of traditional resurgence in Africa
Since the restoration of traditional leaders in Uganda in 1993, the Kingdom of Buganda has developed unusually effective institutions, financing mechanisms and policy tools, re-building itself as a quasi-state. The reinforcement of Buganda's empirical statehood provides one of the farthest-reaching examples of the current trend of traditional resurgence in African politics and to some extent supports claims for the participation of traditional st…
Solving the Mystery of the Africa Dummy
A Potemkin state in the Sahel? The empirical and the fictional in Malian state reconstruction
Despite significant reconstruction efforts in the wake of its 2012–2013 collapse, Mali remains mired in crisis: violence is on the rise, institutions are dysfunctional, the military is inefficient, investments are few, and corruption is rampant. We suggest that Mali’s reconstruction’s failure is but the latest iteration of a general failure at building the Malian state. This failure derives from a sheer lack of resources to sustain statehood and …
State Legitimacy and Development in Africa
Extraversion, vulnerability to donors, and political liberalization in Africa
In seeking to maintain their power, many African regimes rely on strategies of extraversion, converting their dependent relations with the external world into domestic resources and authority. This article assesses the relationship between extraversion and political liberalization, a dimension of African democratization that has been somewhat underappreciated in recent empirical studies. African countries vary in their extraversion portfolios, or…
Misguided and Misdiagnosed
The DR Congo embarked upon decentralization reforms in 2006 to improve governance and accountability, undermine predation, corruption, and personal rule, bring government closer to the people, and promote local development. As of 2014, despite some regional variations, Congolese decentralization had instead increased the degree to which the state extracts the resources and incomes of its citizens. It had also fostered provincial centralization at…
Let's stick together
Journal Article Let's stick together: Understanding Africa's secessionist deficit Get access Pierre Englebert, Pierre Englebert Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rebecca Hummel Rebecca Hummel graduated from Pomona College in 2003 with a major in politics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs,…
Contestation, négociation et résistance
Saisir l’essentiel du politique congolais n’est pas tâche aisee. Comment faire l’etat des lieux d’un Etat gigantesque ou la multitude d’acteurs rivalisent avec des institutions faibles pour creer une atmosphere constante d’incertitude et de chaos apparent ? Les observateurs occasionnels peuvent etre tentes d’affirmer que le Congo ne va nulle part, au regard des developpements de ces dernieres annees. Le cycle de violence pratiquement jamais inter…
Feature review The contemporary African state
(1997). Feature review The contemporary African state: Neither African nor state. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 767-776
Incertitude, autonomie et parasitisme
La décentralisation en République démocratique du Congo se décline sur un registre empreint d'incertitude. Celle-ci se manifeste par des tendances simultanées à la recentralisation, une profusion légale et institutionnelle contradictoire, l'arbitraire fiscal et la vulnérabilité du statut des fonctionnaires locaux. Liée à la faiblesse de l'État, cette incertitude réduit la portée de la décentralisation en termes de gouvernance mais facilite l'auto…
Burkina Faso
The war on terror in context
What explains variations in how African countries respond to security threats? How can we explain situations in which countries face a similar regional threat environment and yet respond very differently? In this article we take advantage of a natural experiment offered by instability in Somalia, which has given rise to terrorist threats to neighbours Ethiopia and Kenya. Analysing Ethiopian and Kenyan responses to instability coming from Somalia …
A research note on Congo's nationalist paradox
Precious little is redeeming about the state in Congo. Created as a foreign enterprise of exploitation, it reproduced as the instrument of an extractive colonization system, in turns violent and paternalistic. Once independent, it provided the stage and the reason for five years of sheer chaos and three decades of brutal arbitrary rule, predation and economic ruin, before collapsing at the end of the 1990s into civil wars marked by ethnic polariz…
Souveraineté, sous-développement et le paradoxe nationaliste congolais
La République Démocratique du Congo aurait dû s’effondrer il y a quelque temps déjà sous les multiples assauts de sa propre inaptitude en tant qu’Etat, de son extrême hétérogénéité sociale, de la polarisation de ses populations, et des dislocations imposées par la globalisation et les occupations de forces étrangères. Et pourtant, non seulement le Congo persiste, mais il montre aussi une remarquable propension au nationalisme. Cette persistance, …
The African Economic Dilemma
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso
Feature review The contemporary African state
(1997). Feature review The contemporary African state: Neither African nor state. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 767-776
Burkina Faso
The African Economic Dilemma
State Legitimacy and Development in Africa
Solving the Mystery of the Africa Dummy
Pre-Colonial Institutions, Post-Colonial States, and Economic Development in Tropical Africa
It is well known that Africa's development lags behind that of other regions. Lesser known is the substantial variance in development fortunes within Africa, with “miracle” economies compensating for the region's development disasters. Prevailing theories of Africa's average performance fail to account for intra-African disparities. Using empirical evidence from cross-sectional data, this study offers a new explanation for success and failure in …
Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa
Since the 1970s, most countries in Africa have failed to make any significant improvements in the standard of living of their citizens. One of the most important reasons advanced to explain continued poverty and deprivation in the continent is pervasive corruption. Corruption, the subject of this book, has become quite pervasive in Africa and now constitutes an important development constraint. This book emphasizes the public choice perspective t…
A research note on Congo's nationalist paradox
Precious little is redeeming about the state in Congo. Created as a foreign enterprise of exploitation, it reproduced as the instrument of an extractive colonization system, in turns violent and paternalistic. Once independent, it provided the stage and the reason for five years of sheer chaos and three decades of brutal arbitrary rule, predation and economic ruin, before collapsing at the end of the 1990s into civil wars marked by ethnic polariz…
Dismemberment and Suffocation
Do African countries suffer from their arbitrary boundaries? The authors test several hypotheses from the debate on this question. They differentiate, one by one, the degree of arbitrariness of African boundaries along two axes: the extent to which they partition preexisting political groupings (dismemberment) and the degree to which they bring together distinct precolonial political cultures (suffocation). They find that dismemberment is positiv…
Patterns and Theories of Traditional Resurgence in Tropical Africa
Depuis le début des années quatre-vingt-dix, l'Afrique a connu un regain d'activité politique dans le chef d'organisations à bases traditionnelle. Plutôt qu'un simple retour à des formes politiques présumément pré-coloniales en réaction à l'affaiblissement de l'Etat africain, cette résurgence apparaît davantage comme l'effet dérivé d'autres tendances qui ont caractérisé cette période, à savoir la démocratisation, la crise économique et la globali…
Born-again Buganda or the limits of traditional resurgence in Africa
Since the restoration of traditional leaders in Uganda in 1993, the Kingdom of Buganda has developed unusually effective institutions, financing mechanisms and policy tools, re-building itself as a quasi-state. The reinforcement of Buganda's empirical statehood provides one of the farthest-reaching examples of the current trend of traditional resurgence in African politics and to some extent supports claims for the participation of traditional st…
Souveraineté, sous-développement et le paradoxe nationaliste congolais
La République Démocratique du Congo aurait dû s’effondrer il y a quelque temps déjà sous les multiples assauts de sa propre inaptitude en tant qu’Etat, de son extrême hétérogénéité sociale, de la polarisation de ses populations, et des dislocations imposées par la globalisation et les occupations de forces étrangères. Et pourtant, non seulement le Congo persiste, mais il montre aussi une remarquable propension au nationalisme. Cette persistance, …
Primary Commodities and War
Political economists argue that developing countries with abundant natural resources are likely to suffer from the curse, a double-barreled affliction of poor governance and irresponsible economic behavior.1 Analysts have applied this approach to civil wars, arguing that primary commodity dependency may stimulate armed rebellion.2 Abundant natural resources are a honey pot, tempting potential rebels to try their luck, especially in the world's po…
Let's stick together
Journal Article Let's stick together: Understanding Africa's secessionist deficit Get access Pierre Englebert, Pierre Englebert Associate Professor of Politics at Pomona College in Claremont, CA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rebecca Hummel Rebecca Hummel graduated from Pomona College in 2003 with a major in politics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs,…
African Guerrillas
Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa
Postconflict state reconstruction has become a priority of donors in Africa. Yet, externally sponsored reconstruction efforts have met with limited achievements in the region. This is partly due to three flawed assumptions on which reconstruction efforts are predicated. The first is that Western state institutions can be transferred to Africa. The poor record of past external efforts to construct and reshape African political and economic institu…
Africa
Though the demise of one or another African state has been heralded for nearly five decades, the map of the continent remains virtually unchanged. By and large, these states have failed to protect and promote the interests of their citizens; yet they endure. Asking why, Pierre Englebert carefully articulates the manner in which international sovereignty is translated into domestic legal command—and the sorrow that ensues.
Africa
Separatist Illusions and Sovereignty Variations
Rational Policy Fantasies
About the Book
The Resilience of the African State
The Politics of Unity and Estrangement
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