William J Foltz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Foltz |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Foltz |
| SIGNATURE | FOLTZ W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nation Building in Comparative Contexts
What is and what makes a nation? What forces work for and against the emergence of new nations? What does the emergence of a nation mean to its people, and what does it mean to international stability? Nation Building in Comparative Contexts answers these questions. Nine leading area specialists compare and analyze the long history of nationalism in Europe, with its shorter histories in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. The result is an outstanding…
Nation Building in Comparative Contexts
Subnationalism in Africa
Subnationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics. By Joshua B. Forrest. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 279p. $55.00. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from states that are too weak to deliver services or even basic order to their peoples. Things really are falling apart, and challenged by a wide variety of locally based resistance movements or popular indifference, control by the center cannot hold. Joshua Forrest, author of solid monogra…
Collapsed States
The authors address the problem of collapsed states a phenomenon that goes far beyond rebellion or the change of regimes to involve the literal implosion of structures of authority and legitimacy by comparatively examining eleven African cases and also assessing the potential strengths and weaknesses of various responses (e.g. democratization, foreign intervention) to impending state collapse.
Malan to De Klerk
The president and the constitution, Laurence Boulle the president and parliament and his party, Nic Olivier the president and the citizenry, Hermann Giliomee the president and the African population, David Welsh the president and interest groups, Lourens Pretorius the president and foreign relations, Jack Spence the president and the executive, Annette Seegers
Lessons of Struggle
Arms and the African
Arms and the African
Arms and the African
Arms and the African
non, trying desperately to extract publicly embarassing short-run concessions from Soviet officials who bitterly defended their national pride. To protect that pride, the Soviets took draconian steps to reduce domestic consumption and used the U.S. delay to buy all available stocks from U.S. competitors. As hard currency cash buyers offering good prices, the Soviets were everyone else's priority customer. By the time the U.S. was ready to sell, t…
Suffer the Future
Will southern Africa explode? Are there alternatives to violent revolution? Can other countries assist South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe in achieving majority rule? Or can the problems be solved only by the peoples of each nation? And what should be done by the West to aid development, encourage racial harmony, and promote the general welfare? For more than a generation Robert Rotberg has visited and written about southern Africa. He has not on…
The Debate on Accepting Government Grants
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Sanctions
Journal Article Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia, by Harry R. Strack Get access Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia by Harry R. Strack. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1978. 296 pp. $15.00. William J. Foltz William J. Foltz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 188–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/2150195 Published: 15 March 19…
Black Power in South Africa
Planning and Economic Policy
United States Policy toward Southern Africa
Journal Article United States Policy toward Southern Africa: Economic and Strategic Constraints Get access William J. Foltz William J. Foltz WILLIAM J. FOLTZ is associate professor of political science and chairman of the Council on African Studies at Yale University. His publications include From French West Africa to the Mali Federation and various shorter studies of international and communal conflict. Search for other works by this author on:…
Religion and Political Culture in Kano. John N. Paden
The Impact of a Workshop upon Grass-Roots Leaders in Belfast
Nine months after 56 persons from the various communities of Belfast had attended a modified Tavistock-NTL Workshop in Scotland, 40 of them were interviewed to determine the effect of that experience. Emphasis was placed upon the changes they had observed within themselves, upon the organizations they had planned during the Workshop, and upon their own general effectiveness back in Belfast. The results are not clear-cut, but for everyone the Work…
Rationale, Research, and Role Relations in the Stirling Workshop
Criticisms of theory, design, and research connected with a workshop involving Catholics and Protestants from Belfast are assessed by the organizers and consultants responsible for the project. Differences in role and commitment are advanced as partial explanations for divergent assessments of the workshop
The Belfast Workshop
The Belfast Workshop brought together 56 Catholic and Protestant citizens of Belfast during August 1972. Through an intervention design which combined Tavistock and National Training Laboratory group dynamics approaches, a team of American social scientists attempted to assist the 56 to learn about their behavior in organized groups and better to understand their political opponents' situation. The workshop sought further to provide a protected s…
Revolution and Political Leadership
China and Africa 1949-1970
Political Institutions of West Africa
The Fermeda Workshop
Social Structure and Political Behavior of Senegalese Elites
The Belfast Workshop
The Belfast Workshop brought together 56 Catholic and Protestant citizens of Belfast during August 1972. Through an intervention design which combined Tavistock and National Training Laboratory group dynamics approaches, a team of American social scientists attempted to assist the 56 to learn about their behavior in organized groups and better to understand their political opponents' situation. The workshop sought further to provide a protected s…
Revolution and Political Leadership
The Impact of a Workshop upon Grass-Roots Leaders in Belfast
Nine months after 56 persons from the various communities of Belfast had attended a modified Tavistock-NTL Workshop in Scotland, 40 of them were interviewed to determine the effect of that experience. Emphasis was placed upon the changes they had observed within themselves, upon the organizations they had planned during the Workshop, and upon their own general effectiveness back in Belfast. The results are not clear-cut, but for everyone the Work…
Sanctions
Journal Article Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia, by Harry R. Strack Get access Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia by Harry R. Strack. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1978. 296 pp. $15.00. William J. Foltz William J. Foltz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 188–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/2150195 Published: 15 March 19…
Social Structure and Political Behavior of Senegalese Elites
Rationale, Research, and Role Relations in the Stirling Workshop
Criticisms of theory, design, and research connected with a workshop involving Catholics and Protestants from Belfast are assessed by the organizers and consultants responsible for the project. Differences in role and commitment are advanced as partial explanations for divergent assessments of the workshop
The Fermeda Workshop
French West Africa to the Mali Federation
Subnationalism in Africa
Subnationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics. By Joshua B. Forrest. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 279p. $55.00. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from states that are too weak to deliver services or even basic order to their peoples. Things really are falling apart, and challenged by a wide variety of locally based resistance movements or popular indifference, control by the center cannot hold. Joshua Forrest, author of solid monogra…
Arms and the African
Arms and the African
non, trying desperately to extract publicly embarassing short-run concessions from Soviet officials who bitterly defended their national pride. To protect that pride, the Soviets took draconian steps to reduce domestic consumption and used the U.S. delay to buy all available stocks from U.S. competitors. As hard currency cash buyers offering good prices, the Soviets were everyone else's priority customer. By the time the U.S. was ready to sell, t…
Malagasy
Essay| March 01 1964 Malagasy: Patterns and Prospects William J. Foltz William J. Foltz Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University William J. Foltz is the writer of several articles on French-speaking Africa. He is the co-editor of Nation-Building, and is now at work on a new book on the Mali Federation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1964) 46 (271): 163–168. https://doi.o…
French West Africa to the Mali Federation
Political Institutions of West Africa
The Fermeda Workshop
Social Structure and Political Behavior of Senegalese Elites
Revolution and Political Leadership
China and Africa 1949-1970
The Belfast Workshop
The Belfast Workshop brought together 56 Catholic and Protestant citizens of Belfast during August 1972. Through an intervention design which combined Tavistock and National Training Laboratory group dynamics approaches, a team of American social scientists attempted to assist the 56 to learn about their behavior in organized groups and better to understand their political opponents' situation. The workshop sought further to provide a protected s…
The Impact of a Workshop upon Grass-Roots Leaders in Belfast
Nine months after 56 persons from the various communities of Belfast had attended a modified Tavistock-NTL Workshop in Scotland, 40 of them were interviewed to determine the effect of that experience. Emphasis was placed upon the changes they had observed within themselves, upon the organizations they had planned during the Workshop, and upon their own general effectiveness back in Belfast. The results are not clear-cut, but for everyone the Work…
Rationale, Research, and Role Relations in the Stirling Workshop
Criticisms of theory, design, and research connected with a workshop involving Catholics and Protestants from Belfast are assessed by the organizers and consultants responsible for the project. Differences in role and commitment are advanced as partial explanations for divergent assessments of the workshop
Religion and Political Culture in Kano. John N. Paden
United States Policy toward Southern Africa
Journal Article United States Policy toward Southern Africa: Economic and Strategic Constraints Get access William J. Foltz William J. Foltz WILLIAM J. FOLTZ is associate professor of political science and chairman of the Council on African Studies at Yale University. His publications include From French West Africa to the Mali Federation and various shorter studies of international and communal conflict. Search for other works by this author on:…
Planning and Economic Policy
The Debate on Accepting Government Grants
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Sanctions
Journal Article Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia, by Harry R. Strack Get access Sanctions: The Case of Rhodesia by Harry R. Strack. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1978. 296 pp. $15.00. William J. Foltz William J. Foltz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Spring 1979, Pages 188–190, https://doi.org/10.2307/2150195 Published: 15 March 19…
Black Power in South Africa
Suffer the Future
Will southern Africa explode? Are there alternatives to violent revolution? Can other countries assist South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe in achieving majority rule? Or can the problems be solved only by the peoples of each nation? And what should be done by the West to aid development, encourage racial harmony, and promote the general welfare? For more than a generation Robert Rotberg has visited and written about southern Africa. He has not on…
Arms and the African
non, trying desperately to extract publicly embarassing short-run concessions from Soviet officials who bitterly defended their national pride. To protect that pride, the Soviets took draconian steps to reduce domestic consumption and used the U.S. delay to buy all available stocks from U.S. competitors. As hard currency cash buyers offering good prices, the Soviets were everyone else's priority customer. By the time the U.S. was ready to sell, t…
Arms and the African
Arms and the African
Arms and the African
Lessons of Struggle
Malan to De Klerk
The president and the constitution, Laurence Boulle the president and parliament and his party, Nic Olivier the president and the citizenry, Hermann Giliomee the president and the African population, David Welsh the president and interest groups, Lourens Pretorius the president and foreign relations, Jack Spence the president and the executive, Annette Seegers
Collapsed States
The authors address the problem of collapsed states a phenomenon that goes far beyond rebellion or the change of regimes to involve the literal implosion of structures of authority and legitimacy by comparatively examining eleven African cases and also assessing the potential strengths and weaknesses of various responses (e.g. democratization, foreign intervention) to impending state collapse.
Subnationalism in Africa
Subnationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics. By Joshua B. Forrest. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 279p. $55.00. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from states that are too weak to deliver services or even basic order to their peoples. Things really are falling apart, and challenged by a wide variety of locally based resistance movements or popular indifference, control by the center cannot hold. Joshua Forrest, author of solid monogra…
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