M A Mohamed Salih
Biographic Data
| ID | 179502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Mohamed Salih |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A Mohamed |
| FAMILY NAME | Salih |
| SIGNATURE | SALIH M A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4893-3128 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Fantu Cheru, 1949–2026: A life of giving, inspiration and solace
Human Rights matter: A reassertion of the UN charter and UDHR core values in turbulent times
The US Military Bases in the Post-9/11 Horn of Africa
Once entangled in an intense ideological contest and power play with the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa (HOA) during the Cold War, the US saw little geopolitical interest to defend in the sub-region in the first decade of the post-Cold War period. Terrorism-induced security threats since the late 1990s, and particularly the 9/11 incident, have drawn the US's attention back to the geostrategic Horn region. This article explores the factors beh…
Discrepancy between theory and practice: Democratic recession or a crisis of state legitimacy
The discrepancy between democratic theory and practice is common to all democratic and quasi-democratic governments. Democratic recession manifests where there is an extreme discrepancy between normative democratic values and their practice – for instance where the state has flouted democratic normative rules (theory) and rendered major democratic institutions dysfunctional. This article posits that democratic recession can be seen in the 21st ce…
Africa and The Decline of The Democracy Debate
The debate on the decline of democracy is not new. It can be traced to the period between the First and Second World Wars, and it resurfaced during the 1970s, followed by the most spectacular dem- ocratic resurgence in human history. This lecture focuses on the current debate on the decline of democracy and downward trends in major democracy assessment indices. Africa is among the three least democratic world regions, with 42% of African countrie…
Party dominance and electoral institutions: Framing Frelimo’s dominance in the context of an electoral governance deficit
Focusing on Frelimo’s dominance over party politics and state institutions, this article analyses the issues pertaining to the role of electoral institutions in the consolidation of this dominant position. The authors argue that in order to understand party dominance in Mozambique, it is necessary that there should be an historical perspective linking the present (that is, the constitutional reforms since the 1990s) to the past. These reforms pav…
Local Climate Change and Society
Interpreting Islamic Political Parties
Interpreting Islamic Political Parties offer a critical analysis and explanation of the evolution, institutionalization and current developments of Islamic political parties. The volume contains case
Hermeneutics, Scriptural Politics, and Human Rights: Between Text and Context
This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Chr
African Liberation Movement Governments and Democracy
Using polyarchy as an analytical frame of reference in combination with other democracy performance evaluation methods, this article offers a longitudinal analysis interrogating the democratic credentials of African decolonization and second liberation movement governments. Characteristically, upon victory and rise to power, some liberation movement governments failed to implement the democratic values that kindled their struggle. One subsequent …
African Parliaments: Between Governance and Government
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. London: International African Institute; Oxford: James Currey; Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Kampala: Fountain Publishers (paperback £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 392 7). 2003, 256 pp. - Alex de Waal and Yoanes Ajawin (eds), When Peace Comes: civil society and development in Sudan. Lawrenceville and Asmara: Red Sea Press, for Justice Africa, Committee for the Civil Project in Sudan (paper…
Better Governance and Public Policy: Capacity Building for Democratic Renewal in Africa
Exploring the relationship between governance and development policy, the authors of this collection describe recent governance changes in a range of African countries, analyze the consequences of those changes for institutional reforms, and highlight the challenges involved in consolidating ongoing processes of economic liberalization and democratization
African Democracies and African Politics
Preface Maps 1 Introduction 2 Ethnicity in Quasi-Polyarchies 3 Harnessing Authoritarian Development 4 The Democratic Potential of Democratic Education 5 An Authoritarian Circus: Sudan from NIF to 6 Multi-Party Democracy 7 Sierra Leone: Democratising Anarchy 8 Nigeria: Democracy, Ethnicity and Faith 9 Southern African Democracies and 10 South Africa's Resilience 11 Minorities in First-Past-the Post Bibliography Index
Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa
M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis(eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., £18.95 (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4. - Volume 70 Issue 1
Other identities: Politics of Sudanese discursive narratives
Most Sudanese authors who have written about the nationality question in the Sudan have been personally involved in Sudanese politics, have held political offices, or have become advocates for the cause of one or another political liberation front. This unique position makes their contributions to the debate on ethnicity and nationalism not only tense, but also means that these writings contain influential political messages. This paper examines …
Resistance and response: Ethnocide and genocide in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Somalia: State and society in Turmoil
On 15 January 1994, an international conference on ‘Somalia: State and Society in Turmoil’ was organised by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference was attended by representatives of eight Somali factions, the indigenous peoples of Somalia, ministers from the self‐proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, Somali peace and intellectual groups, Somali and Northern NGOs, representatives of human, rights groups, repr…
Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat "King" in Southern Sudan
Generation and migration: Identity crisis and political change among the Moro of the Nuba mountains
Ecological Stress and Political Coercion in the Sudan
This article outlines the impact of state intervention on ecological relations in the Sudan. The establishment of large-scale mechanised agricultural schemes; population and livestock concentration around water sources; and the evolution of large urban centres with high demands for firewood and charcoal have all contributed to ecological degradation. These effects have been coupled with the use of coercive measures to displace traditional farmers…
Modernising Hunger
New wine in old bottles’: Tribal militias and the Sudanese state
Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa
M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis(eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., £18.95 (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4. - Volume 70 Issue 1
African Liberation Movement Governments and Democracy
Using polyarchy as an analytical frame of reference in combination with other democracy performance evaluation methods, this article offers a longitudinal analysis interrogating the democratic credentials of African decolonization and second liberation movement governments. Characteristically, upon victory and rise to power, some liberation movement governments failed to implement the democratic values that kindled their struggle. One subsequent …
African Parliaments: Between Governance and Government
African Democracies and African Politics
Preface Maps 1 Introduction 2 Ethnicity in Quasi-Polyarchies 3 Harnessing Authoritarian Development 4 The Democratic Potential of Democratic Education 5 An Authoritarian Circus: Sudan from NIF to 6 Multi-Party Democracy 7 Sierra Leone: Democratising Anarchy 8 Nigeria: Democracy, Ethnicity and Faith 9 Southern African Democracies and 10 South Africa's Resilience 11 Minorities in First-Past-the Post Bibliography Index
Resistance and response: Ethnocide and genocide in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Ecological Stress and Political Coercion in the Sudan
This article outlines the impact of state intervention on ecological relations in the Sudan. The establishment of large-scale mechanised agricultural schemes; population and livestock concentration around water sources; and the evolution of large urban centres with high demands for firewood and charcoal have all contributed to ecological degradation. These effects have been coupled with the use of coercive measures to displace traditional farmers…
New wine in old bottles’: Tribal militias and the Sudanese state
Other identities: Politics of Sudanese discursive narratives
Most Sudanese authors who have written about the nationality question in the Sudan have been personally involved in Sudanese politics, have held political offices, or have become advocates for the cause of one or another political liberation front. This unique position makes their contributions to the debate on ethnicity and nationalism not only tense, but also means that these writings contain influential political messages. This paper examines …
Somalia: State and society in Turmoil
On 15 January 1994, an international conference on ‘Somalia: State and Society in Turmoil’ was organised by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference was attended by representatives of eight Somali factions, the indigenous peoples of Somalia, ministers from the self‐proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, Somali peace and intellectual groups, Somali and Northern NGOs, representatives of human, rights groups, repr…
Generation and migration: Identity crisis and political change among the Moro of the Nuba mountains
New wine in old bottles’: Tribal militias and the Sudanese state
Ecological Stress and Political Coercion in the Sudan
This article outlines the impact of state intervention on ecological relations in the Sudan. The establishment of large-scale mechanised agricultural schemes; population and livestock concentration around water sources; and the evolution of large urban centres with high demands for firewood and charcoal have all contributed to ecological degradation. These effects have been coupled with the use of coercive measures to displace traditional farmers…
Modernising Hunger
Generation and migration: Identity crisis and political change among the Moro of the Nuba mountains
Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat "King" in Southern Sudan
Somalia: State and society in Turmoil
On 15 January 1994, an international conference on ‘Somalia: State and Society in Turmoil’ was organised by the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference was attended by representatives of eight Somali factions, the indigenous peoples of Somalia, ministers from the self‐proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, Somali peace and intellectual groups, Somali and Northern NGOs, representatives of human, rights groups, repr…
Resistance and response: Ethnocide and genocide in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
Other identities: Politics of Sudanese discursive narratives
Most Sudanese authors who have written about the nationality question in the Sudan have been personally involved in Sudanese politics, have held political offices, or have become advocates for the cause of one or another political liberation front. This unique position makes their contributions to the debate on ethnicity and nationalism not only tense, but also means that these writings contain influential political messages. This paper examines …
Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa
M. A. Mohamed Salih and John Markakis(eds), Ethnicity and the State in Eastern Africa.Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1998, 208 pp., £18.95 (SEK 200, US $26.95), ISBN 91 7106 418 4. - Volume 70 Issue 1
African Democracies and African Politics
Preface Maps 1 Introduction 2 Ethnicity in Quasi-Polyarchies 3 Harnessing Authoritarian Development 4 The Democratic Potential of Democratic Education 5 An Authoritarian Circus: Sudan from NIF to 6 Multi-Party Democracy 7 Sierra Leone: Democratising Anarchy 8 Nigeria: Democracy, Ethnicity and Faith 9 Southern African Democracies and 10 South Africa's Resilience 11 Minorities in First-Past-the Post Bibliography Index
Better Governance and Public Policy: Capacity Building for Democratic Renewal in Africa
Exploring the relationship between governance and development policy, the authors of this collection describe recent governance changes in a range of African countries, analyze the consequences of those changes for institutional reforms, and highlight the challenges involved in consolidating ongoing processes of economic liberalization and democratization
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Douglas H. Johnson, The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars. London: International African Institute; Oxford: James Currey; Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Kampala: Fountain Publishers (paperback £12.95, ISBN 0 85255 392 7). 2003, 256 pp. - Alex de Waal and Yoanes Ajawin (eds), When Peace Comes: civil society and development in Sudan. Lawrenceville and Asmara: Red Sea Press, for Justice Africa, Committee for the Civil Project in Sudan (paper…
African Parliaments: Between Governance and Government
African Liberation Movement Governments and Democracy
Using polyarchy as an analytical frame of reference in combination with other democracy performance evaluation methods, this article offers a longitudinal analysis interrogating the democratic credentials of African decolonization and second liberation movement governments. Characteristically, upon victory and rise to power, some liberation movement governments failed to implement the democratic values that kindled their struggle. One subsequent …
Interpreting Islamic Political Parties
Interpreting Islamic Political Parties offer a critical analysis and explanation of the evolution, institutionalization and current developments of Islamic political parties. The volume contains case
Hermeneutics, Scriptural Politics, and Human Rights: Between Text and Context
This book articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Chr
Local Climate Change and Society
Party dominance and electoral institutions: Framing Frelimo’s dominance in the context of an electoral governance deficit
Focusing on Frelimo’s dominance over party politics and state institutions, this article analyses the issues pertaining to the role of electoral institutions in the consolidation of this dominant position. The authors argue that in order to understand party dominance in Mozambique, it is necessary that there should be an historical perspective linking the present (that is, the constitutional reforms since the 1990s) to the past. These reforms pav…
Africa and The Decline of The Democracy Debate
The debate on the decline of democracy is not new. It can be traced to the period between the First and Second World Wars, and it resurfaced during the 1970s, followed by the most spectacular dem- ocratic resurgence in human history. This lecture focuses on the current debate on the decline of democracy and downward trends in major democracy assessment indices. Africa is among the three least democratic world regions, with 42% of African countrie…
The US Military Bases in the Post-9/11 Horn of Africa
Once entangled in an intense ideological contest and power play with the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa (HOA) during the Cold War, the US saw little geopolitical interest to defend in the sub-region in the first decade of the post-Cold War period. Terrorism-induced security threats since the late 1990s, and particularly the 9/11 incident, have drawn the US's attention back to the geostrategic Horn region. This article explores the factors beh…
Discrepancy between theory and practice: Democratic recession or a crisis of state legitimacy
The discrepancy between democratic theory and practice is common to all democratic and quasi-democratic governments. Democratic recession manifests where there is an extreme discrepancy between normative democratic values and their practice – for instance where the state has flouted democratic normative rules (theory) and rendered major democratic institutions dysfunctional. This article posits that democratic recession can be seen in the 21st ce…
Human Rights matter: A reassertion of the UN charter and UDHR core values in turbulent times
Fantu Cheru, 1949–2026: A life of giving, inspiration and solace
Political science (21 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · African history and culture analysis (5 works)