Donald Rothchild
Biographic Data
| ID | 127115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Rothchild |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothchild |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHCHILD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 860 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 88 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation
African States and the Politics of Inclusive Coalitions
This chapter examines the problem of political effectiveness, reviewing common mechanisms for channeling state-society relations, including, most notably, prominent forms of "elite consensus" systems. It discusses how state elites, irrespective of the regime types they have adopted, can augment their capacity for governance, putting themselves in a better position to achieve their policy objectives through reorganized governmental coalitions. The…
The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa
Corporatism and Political Transactions: Some Ruminations on the Ghanaian Experience
The political history of Ghana since independence appears to be both dualistic and paradoxical. On the one hand, Ghanaian politics have been punctuated by a series of ineffectual governmental attempts to mold social relations. On the other hand, Ghana has hardly dissolved into political incoherence or social anomie. Different types of corporatism have subsequently been associated with divergent cultural circumstances, stage of capitalist penetrat…
State Versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas
Women and the State in Africa: State and Society in Africa
This chapter shows that assumption, asserting the particularity of the relationship of women to the state in Africa and consequently the need to study gender-state relations, and other social divisions, in order to understand both the nature of the state and the place of women in it. It is concerned with women's access to the apparatus of the state, the consequences of their underrepresentation in the state, and the mechanisms women have construc…
State Versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas
Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa
Africa in World Politics: Constructing Political and Economic Order
Reconfiguring State-Ethnic Relations in Africa: Liberalization and the Search for New Routines of Interaction
Africa's current economic liberalization and democratization carries with it broad opportunities for choice that could be either creative or destructive. This chapter examines the shifting dynamics of state-ethnic relations in three contexts: the colonial, the immediate postcolonial, and the current period of political and economic liberalization. Although intertwined and overlapping, these different regime patterns nonetheless organize interacti…
Economic Aid and Peace Implementation: The African Experience
This paper examines the potential importance of externally-facilitated peace dividends and donor coordination in sustaining peace after the signing of an accord. We extend our previous research on US performance after civil wars to learn if adversary assumptions on peace dividends have additional positive impact when a wider sample of major Western European donors is included. Was the lack of US follow-through compensated for in whole or in part …
The Logic of a Soft Intervention Strategy: The United States and Conflict Conciliation in Africa
What forms of U.S. intervention are likely to prove realizable and to be appropriate for facilitating the implementation of peace agreements and protecting human rights in Africa? The choices for action are certainly wider than the polar opposites of disengagement and large-scale military intervention. Because the United States can afford neither prolonged military hegemony nor the indulgence of neo-isolationism, it must find some form of creativ…
Africa-U.S. Relations: Strategic Encounters
Contents: Africa and the United States: Meeting the Challenges of Globalization - E.J. Keller. Confronting Security Challenges. African Peacekeeping - S. Rugumamu. A Strategic Approach to Terrorism - P.N. Lyman. US Intervention in Africa's Ethnic Conflicts: The Scope for Action - D. Rothchild and N. Emmanuel. The Special Case of the Horn of Africa - R. Iyob and E.J. Keller. Confronting Societal Challenges. Human Security - C. Thomas. HIV/AIDS in …
Sovereignty Reconsidered
Africans “have begun moving away from colonially designed juridical statehood to fashion empirical formulas that respond to the messiness of their current realities. Only time will reveal whether these new, flexible structures prove an effective response to ... state weakness.”
Reassuring weaker parties after civil wars: The benefits and costs of executive power-sharing systems in Africa
This article begins with a discussion of power-sharing institutions in terms of their short- and long-term implications, examining the possible lack of fit between power sharing as an incentive to reach agreements during the negotiation phase while proving a source of conflict during the longer-term consolidation phase. In the next section, I analyse Africa's real world experiences with power sharing, looking at the details of experiments in the …
Negotiating African Independence: An Introduction
Colonial Bargaining as Tactics: The Ghana Experience, 1954–1957
In the pre-independence conflict between the Nkrumah regime and the Ashanti-led opposition in the Gold Coast, the departing colonial power found itself caught up in an internal confrontation. The NLM and its allies, fearing the shadow of the future, sought to establish credible guarantees against majoritarian rule after independence. The Nkrumah government insisted upon the centralization of political power and majoritarian principles. The effect…
The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice, 1986-2000
Preface 1. Future trends in human rights in Africa: the increased role of the OAU G. Naldi 2. The reporting mechanism of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights M. Evans and R. Murray 3. Admissibility under the African Charter F. Viljoen 4. Evidence and fact-finding by the African Commission R. Murray 5. Civil and political rights in the African Charter C. Heyns 6. Implementing economic, social and cultural rights under the African Chart…
Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power
Journal Article Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power Get access Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power by Thomas Callaghy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 336 pp. Cloth, $70.00; paper, $25.00. Donald Rothchild Donald Rothchild University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sc…
Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements
African Military History and Politics: Coups and Ideological Incursions, 1900: Present
Stabilizing the Peace After Civil War: An Investigation of Some Key Variables
In the wake of negotiated settlements to civil wars, one critical problem involves reassuring people who have been killing one another that conflict is not about to break out again, endangering people's lives. Those concerned with the success of negotiated settlements have debated how best to enhance the prospects of a stable peace. We address this question by exploring variables that may explain the longevity of negotiated peace settlements. The…
Security in deeply divided societies: The role of territorial autonomy
(1999). Security in deeply divided societies: The role of territorial autonomy. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 254-271
The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear, Diffusion, and Escalation
Unofficial mediation and the Nigeria‐Biafra war
In some state‐ethnoregional conflicts, unofficial mediators can play an important peacemaking role. In the bitter encounter between Nigeria and the secessionist‐minded eastern region (or Biafra) in 1966–70, efforts by various states and international organizations to mediate between the adversaries proved ineffective. Moreover, rather than easing tensions, formal peace talks at Kampala and Addis Ababa proved conflict‐creating, in part because the…
Stabilizing the Peace After Civil War: An Investigation of Some Key Variables
In the wake of negotiated settlements to civil wars, one critical problem involves reassuring people who have been killing one another that conflict is not about to break out again, endangering people's lives. Those concerned with the success of negotiated settlements have debated how best to enhance the prospects of a stable peace. We address this question by exploring variables that may explain the longevity of negotiated peace settlements. The…
State Versus Ethnic Claims: African Policy Dilemmas
Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict
October 01 1996 Containing Fear: The Origins and Management of Ethnic Conflict David A. Lake, David A. Lake David A. Lake is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and Research Director for International Relations at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Donald Rothchild Donald Rothchild David A. Lake is Professor of Political Scienc…
Ending Civil Wars: The Implementation of Peace Agreements
Women and the State in Africa: State and Society in Africa
This chapter shows that assumption, asserting the particularity of the relationship of women to the state in Africa and consequently the need to study gender-state relations, and other social divisions, in order to understand both the nature of the state and the place of women in it. It is concerned with women's access to the apparatus of the state, the consequences of their underrepresentation in the state, and the mechanisms women have construc…
Sovereignty As Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa
Sovereignty, according to the authors, can no longer be seen as a protection against interference, but as a charge of responsibility where the state is accountable to both domestic and external constituencies. In internal conflicts in Africa, sovereign states have often failed to take responsibility for their own citizens' welfare and for the humanitarian consequences of conflict, leaving the victims with no protection or assistance. This book sh…
The Contagion of Political Conflict in Africa and the World
In this article we seek to specify and measure the paths by which domestic political conflict can diffuse across state boundaries. By focusing on data for Africa and the world from 1962 to 1966 and 1971 to 1975 we have found that receptivity to outside political conflict is contingent upon a recent history of domestic strife and will increase if a society is polarized among a few contending groups. In those countries where the mass media come und…
Economic Integration: The East African Experience
Ghana: The Political Economy of Recovery
The contributors look at the issues involved in Ghana's current reform programme, addressing questions of governance, the transformation of the ruling party, regime legitimacy, the parallel economy, economic restructuring, export diversification and international financial negotiations
Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution
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The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: The System in Practice, 1986-2000
Preface 1. Future trends in human rights in Africa: the increased role of the OAU G. Naldi 2. The reporting mechanism of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights M. Evans and R. Murray 3. Admissibility under the African Charter F. Viljoen 4. Evidence and fact-finding by the African Commission R. Murray 5. Civil and political rights in the African Charter C. Heyns 6. Implementing economic, social and cultural rights under the African Chart…
Security in deeply divided societies: The role of territorial autonomy
(1999). Security in deeply divided societies: The role of territorial autonomy. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 254-271
Ghana: The Political Economy of Recovery
Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960-1966
Peace operations: From short‐term to long‐term commitment
By developing a strategic approach to the implementation of peace accords in civil war, the United Nations can better the odds for ending a war and fostering development in the long run. Recent attempts at implementation have suffered from recurring difficulties: incomplete, vague and expedient agreements; lack of coordination between mediators and those who have to implement an agreement; lack of co‐ordination between implementing agencies; lack…
Cultural Forces in World Politics
The Police in Modern Nigeria 1861-1965: Origins, Development and Role
Kenya's Africanization Program: Priorities of Development and Equity
Africa's postindependence leaders are under enormous pressure. They must assume such new functions as the conduct of foreign relations and military defense and must expand developmental activities greatly, all at a time of falling world commodity prices, population explosion, and increasing indifference to foreign aid on the part of the wealthier countries. Local African expectations are rising, even though such requisites for satisfying these as…
Military Regime Performance: An Appraisal of the Ghana Experience, 1972-78
Military regime performance relates to the effectiveness of organizations in attaining multiple goals at relatively low cost. But whose criteria are to be applied in evaluating this organizational effectiveness? On the one hand, it is possible to make use of generalizable standards of judgment, comparing military and civilian performance in the Third World as a whole, according to what one authority has depicted as intrinsically desirable dimensi…
Ethnic Inequalities in Kenya
The time has come', writes James S. Coleman, 'to recognize the professional respectability as well as the practical essentiality of the ancient and honorable hybrid discipline of political economy.'1Such an approach to the study of developing countries is as timely as it is prudent. This article attempts to apply the approach of political economy to the question of elite recruitment, the process by which individuals are selected and assigned to s…
Ethnic bargaining and state breakdown in Africa
This article analyses the dynamics of state‐society relationships in Africa through the prism of changing bargaining relationships in three contexts: the colonial hegemonic regime, the post‐colonial hegemonic regime, and the mixed patterns of the contemporary period. It finds that, with the exception of the new, multiparty democratic orders, ethnic bargaining has proved more of a transitional expedient than a method of furthering regularity in po…
Interethnic conflict and policy analysis in Africa
1986). Interethnic conflict and policy analysis in Africa. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 66-86
Africa in the New International Order: Rethinking State Sovereignty and Regional Security
Part 1 Regional Change and Global Security Issues: the Role of Regional and Global Organisations in Addressing Africa's Security Issues, I. Gambari the OAU, State Sovereignty and Regional Security, S. Gomes Regional Security and Changing Patterns of Relations, I.W. Zartman. Part 2 Country Studies: Somalia - a Regional Security Dilemma, A. Simons Civil War and Identity in Sudan's Foreign Policy, F. Deng and K. Medani the International Context of I…
Ethnic Minority Problems in Nigerian Politics: 1960-1965
Rural‐urban inequities and resource allocation in Zambia
(1972). Rural‐urban inequities and resource allocation in Zambia. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 222-242
Toward Unity in Africa: A Study of Federalism in British Africa
East African Federation
FEW PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO acknowledge or recognize the extent to which political factors thwart the achievement of optimum economic arrangements. The problem of federation is a case in point. Whether in the West Indies, South America, the Middle East or West Africa, wide territorial integration seems to offer substantial economic benefits. Nevertheless, despite economic and indeed non-economic advantages, progress toward unity in these areas rema…
Regional/Central Relations in Uganda
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The Limits of Federalism: And Examination of political Institutional Transfer in Africa
While Africa was in the throes of the decolonisation process, many of its leaders considered classical federalism an effective way of reconciling unity and diversity.1 Along with their counterparts in Europe, they reasoned that federalism would compensate for the nation-state's inability to meet modern political, economic, and strategic demands without at the same time threatening the special interests of the constituent parts. Federalism would a…
The Soldier and the State in East Africa: Some Theoretical Conclusions on the Army Mutinies of 1964
Ali A. Mazrui, Donald Rothchild, The Soldier and the State in East Africa: Some Theoretical Conclusions on the Army Mutinies of 1964, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1967), pp. 82-96
Kenya's Minorities and the African Crisis over Citizenship
Nigeria. Walter Schwarz
Ethnic Inequalities in Kenya
The time has come', writes James S. Coleman, 'to recognize the professional respectability as well as the practical essentiality of the ancient and honorable hybrid discipline of political economy.'1Such an approach to the study of developing countries is as timely as it is prudent. This article attempts to apply the approach of political economy to the question of elite recruitment, the process by which individuals are selected and assigned to s…
Freedom and Socialism. Uhuru na Ujamaa. A Selection from Writings and Speeches 1965-1967
Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution
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Kenya's Africanization Program: Priorities of Development and Equity
Africa's postindependence leaders are under enormous pressure. They must assume such new functions as the conduct of foreign relations and military defense and must expand developmental activities greatly, all at a time of falling world commodity prices, population explosion, and increasing indifference to foreign aid on the part of the wealthier countries. Local African expectations are rising, even though such requisites for satisfying these as…
Colonial Sequence 1949 to 1969. A Chronological Commentary upon British Colonial Policy in Africa
On becomingBwana in Kenya
Rural‐urban inequities and resource allocation in Zambia
(1972). Rural‐urban inequities and resource allocation in Zambia. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 222-242
The Police in Modern Nigeria 1861-1965: Origins, Development and Role
My Odyssey. An Autobiography
From Village to State in Tanzania: The Politics of Rural Development. Clyde R. Ingle
Freedom Fighter
Changing Racial Stratifications and Bargaining Styles: The Kenya Experience
Les négociations entre groupes n'affectent la stratification sociale que dans certaines circonstances. Elles n'offrent guére d'intérêt lorsque la classification raciale est parfaitement rigide et lorsque le pouvoir économique et politique est solidement entre les mains d'une petite minorité racialement homogéne (cas de l'Afrique orientale coloniale, de la Rhodésie et de l'Union sudafricaine actuelles). Plusieurs formes de négociation directe et t…
Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya
On Economic Bargaining between African Governments and Multi-National Companies
The activities of multi-national companies provide primary sources of economic contact between African countries and the industrialised world. The companies' operations in both resource and product markets are often influenced by impositions made, or not made, by host governments in Africa. Such impositions result from bargaining between governments and companies in which each negotiating agent is intent upon obtaining the most preferred conditio…
Structure and Conflict in Nigeria 1960-1966
Scarcity, Choice, and Public Policy in Middle Africa
Economic Integration: The East African Experience
Scarcity, Choice, and Public Policy in Middle Africa
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