Stephen F Burgess
Biographic Data
| ID | 5645888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen F Burgess |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen F |
| FAMILY NAME | Burgess |
| SIGNATURE | BURGESS S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maxwell Air Force Base |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
U.S. Training of African Forces and Military Assistance, 1997–2017: Security versus Human Rights in Principal–Agent Relations
Despite its reputation for global democracy promotion, the United States has developed substantial long-term military partnerships with several African countries that have less than stellar human rights records. While in some instances the United States has chosen to rebuke countries for human rights abuses, it has also elected to continue security partnerships with others in the face of similarly credible accusations. To explain this seeming inc…
Multilateral defense cooperation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region: Tentative steps toward a regional Nato
Some U.S. military leaders have asserted that the United States, Japan, Australia, and India and the Republic of Korea are developing multilateral defense cooperation to deter aggression and uphold norms much like North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has in Europe. Frequent military exercises and China’s threats to freedom of navigation (FoN) and North Korea’s nuclear missiles comprise the motive force for such cooperation. However, cooperat…
International support for state building in war-torn Africa: Are there alternative strategies
This article demonstrates that there are multiple strategies for state building, peace building, and security for civilian populations. In five cases of ongoing conflict, the liberal model of top-down state building and elections has caused considerable loss of lives and resources and could be considered to have failed. There are no long-term prospects for success in any of the five countries where the liberal model is being implemented with inte…
Rising bipolarity in the South China Sea: The American rebalance to Asia and China's expansion
This article synthesizes three elements of power and balancing in the South China Sea (SCS): analytical perspectives on China's behaviour and intentions, the American rebalance to Asia and the dispositions of American allies and partners. Based on extensive interviews and theoretical analysis, it concludes that ‘soft balancing’ backed by American military power provides the optimum chance for resolving the growing dispute. Short to medium-term we…
UN and AU counterterrorism norm acceptance: Comparative security policies of Uganda and Chad
Uganda and Chad both took risks to implement global counterterrorism (CT) norms by mounting expeditionary operations against violent extremist organizations (VEOs) because of the Pan-Africanist vision of Ugandan president Museveni and the more realist motivation of Chadian president Déby. The resources that the United States, France, and the EU have provided have enabled the two countries to execute difficult operations. Internally, both countrie…
Comparative Challenges in Securing the Horn of Africa and Sahara
Geography helps to explain why violent extremist organizations are difficult to counter; vast ungoverned spaces combined with weak states make it nearly impossible to decisively defeat them. However, partial success has been achieved by the United States in the Horn of Africa with a strategy of training, equipping, and supporting African intervention forces and attacking extremist leaders. In contrast, a strategy of containment in the Sahara, foc…
A Lost Cause Recouped: Peace Enforcement and State-Building in Somalia
A constitutional convention with representation from clan elders adopted a new constitution for Somalia on 1 August 2012, which paved the way for the election of a federal parliament and a new president of the Federal Republic of Somalia. This article examines two opposing explanations for this progress in a country long dismissed as a lost cause. Bottom-up stability, with grassroots equilibrium, is argued to be more likely to bring representatio…
This Means War? China's Scramble for Minerals and Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa
The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China are competing for strategic minerals. This could lead to market failure, shutting out Western companies. However, competition does not mean that armed conflict will occur. The global reach of the United States is such that it can take measures short of war to guarantee the flow of minerals. China will be at a s…
Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age: Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon
1. IntroductionToshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes 2. After Proliferation: Deterrence Theory and Emerging Powers Joshua Rovner 3. South Africa's Strategy: Deterring Total Onslaught and Nuclear Blackmail in Three StagesHelen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess 4. The Future of Chinese Policy and StrategyChristopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, and Michael S. Chase 5. North Korea's Weapons Program: Motivations, Strategy, and DoctrineTerence Roehrig 6…
We Can Get Something More Complete: Participatory Budgeting to Enhance Sustainability
This is a study of participatory budgeting, where citizens participate in local government decision-making, leading to enhanced sustainability
In the National Interest? Authoritarian Decision-making and the Problematic Creation of US Africa Command
US Department of Defense change agents pursued transformation in creating US Africa Command and focused inwardly to win the bureaucratic struggle. In contrast, they did not bother to consult with African leaders and made assumptions about African reactions to AFRICOM, which demonstrated a lack of empathy. The authoritarian leadership style of Rumsfeld brought about the unworkable directive that AFRICOM headquarters should be placed on the African…
Fashioning Integrated Security Forces after Conflict
In Africa, peacemakers have established arrangements to fashion integrated militaries and police forces out of what were warring government and rebel forces. Success has been achieved because of a combination of four factors: state strength, external involvement and assistance, quality of contending forces, and management of the process, and failure has occurred because one or more of those factors have been absent. Since most African states in c…
Environment and Human Security in the Horn of Africa
No accessFULL TEXTJournal of Human SecurityOther Journal Article01 January 2008Environment and Human Security in the Horn of Africa Authors: Stephen F Burgess Authors: Stephen F Burgess Associate Director, US Air Force Counterproliferation Center, and Associate Professor, Department of International Security, US Air War College, 1205 Anderson Hall, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112, USA, email: [email protected], tel: +1 334 953 7076, fax: +1 334 953 1958 Go…
South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program
South Africa's Nuclear Decisions
July 01 2002 South Africa's Nuclear Decisions Helen E. Purkitt, Helen E. Purkitt Professor in the Department of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Stephen F. Burgess, Stephen F. Burgess Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and International Security at the U.S. Air War College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Peter Liberman P…
South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective
This article describes important historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of South Africa's past covert chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast. Some of the complex international linkages developed under the auspices of Project Coast are also discussed. The conclusion discusses some of the characteristics of the programme that help to explain these widely varying assessments
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 1975–1991
African Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Indigenization and Multilateralism
With the onset of the twenty-first century, power distribution has become a key factor in African security. In western and southern Africa, power has become more concentrated and hierarchical, especially with the growing assertiveness of three regional powers, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and organizations (ECOWAS and SADC) which have the authority, salience and capability to mount and lead security operations. In contrast, in central and …
Smallholder Voice and Rural Transformation: Zimbabwe and Kenya Compared
Among more than fifty African states, Zimbabwe and Kenya represent two of a handful of success stories where agricultural production and marketing boomed after independence and smallholders played a major role.' In first five years of independence, from 1980 to 1985, Zimbabwe's small-scale communal farmers tripled production of maize and cotton, country's key crops; communal sector superseded privileged large-scale commercial sector in both produ…
Women's Voice and Agency in Rural Africa: Small-Scale Communal Farmers in Zimbabwe
In Africa, women farmers must gain greater access to markets if they are to overcome patriarchy and fulfill their potential as agriculturalists. In spite of the prevailing reality of patriarchy and male domination, many rural women have been able to surmount the obstacles which have prevented the vast majority from becoming successful farmers and marketers. In this article, cases are depicted in which women have overcome barriers and become parti…
Comparative Challenges in Securing the Horn of Africa and Sahara
Geography helps to explain why violent extremist organizations are difficult to counter; vast ungoverned spaces combined with weak states make it nearly impossible to decisively defeat them. However, partial success has been achieved by the United States in the Horn of Africa with a strategy of training, equipping, and supporting African intervention forces and attacking extremist leaders. In contrast, a strategy of containment in the Sahara, foc…
Fashioning Integrated Security Forces after Conflict
In Africa, peacemakers have established arrangements to fashion integrated militaries and police forces out of what were warring government and rebel forces. Success has been achieved because of a combination of four factors: state strength, external involvement and assistance, quality of contending forces, and management of the process, and failure has occurred because one or more of those factors have been absent. Since most African states in c…
South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction
South Africa's Nuclear Decisions
July 01 2002 South Africa's Nuclear Decisions Helen E. Purkitt, Helen E. Purkitt Professor in the Department of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Stephen F. Burgess, Stephen F. Burgess Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and International Security at the U.S. Air War College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Peter Liberman P…
South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective
This article describes important historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of South Africa's past covert chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast. Some of the complex international linkages developed under the auspices of Project Coast are also discussed. The conclusion discusses some of the characteristics of the programme that help to explain these widely varying assessments
Smallholder Voice and Rural Transformation: Zimbabwe and Kenya Compared
Among more than fifty African states, Zimbabwe and Kenya represent two of a handful of success stories where agricultural production and marketing boomed after independence and smallholders played a major role.' In first five years of independence, from 1980 to 1985, Zimbabwe's small-scale communal farmers tripled production of maize and cotton, country's key crops; communal sector superseded privileged large-scale commercial sector in both produ…
Multilateral defense cooperation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region: Tentative steps toward a regional Nato
Some U.S. military leaders have asserted that the United States, Japan, Australia, and India and the Republic of Korea are developing multilateral defense cooperation to deter aggression and uphold norms much like North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has in Europe. Frequent military exercises and China’s threats to freedom of navigation (FoN) and North Korea’s nuclear missiles comprise the motive force for such cooperation. However, cooperat…
Rising bipolarity in the South China Sea: The American rebalance to Asia and China's expansion
This article synthesizes three elements of power and balancing in the South China Sea (SCS): analytical perspectives on China's behaviour and intentions, the American rebalance to Asia and the dispositions of American allies and partners. Based on extensive interviews and theoretical analysis, it concludes that ‘soft balancing’ backed by American military power provides the optimum chance for resolving the growing dispute. Short to medium-term we…
This Means War? China's Scramble for Minerals and Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa
The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China are competing for strategic minerals. This could lead to market failure, shutting out Western companies. However, competition does not mean that armed conflict will occur. The global reach of the United States is such that it can take measures short of war to guarantee the flow of minerals. China will be at a s…
UN and AU counterterrorism norm acceptance: Comparative security policies of Uganda and Chad
Uganda and Chad both took risks to implement global counterterrorism (CT) norms by mounting expeditionary operations against violent extremist organizations (VEOs) because of the Pan-Africanist vision of Ugandan president Museveni and the more realist motivation of Chadian president Déby. The resources that the United States, France, and the EU have provided have enabled the two countries to execute difficult operations. Internally, both countrie…
A Lost Cause Recouped: Peace Enforcement and State-Building in Somalia
A constitutional convention with representation from clan elders adopted a new constitution for Somalia on 1 August 2012, which paved the way for the election of a federal parliament and a new president of the Federal Republic of Somalia. This article examines two opposing explanations for this progress in a country long dismissed as a lost cause. Bottom-up stability, with grassroots equilibrium, is argued to be more likely to bring representatio…
In the National Interest? Authoritarian Decision-making and the Problematic Creation of US Africa Command
US Department of Defense change agents pursued transformation in creating US Africa Command and focused inwardly to win the bureaucratic struggle. In contrast, they did not bother to consult with African leaders and made assumptions about African reactions to AFRICOM, which demonstrated a lack of empathy. The authoritarian leadership style of Rumsfeld brought about the unworkable directive that AFRICOM headquarters should be placed on the African…
U.S. Training of African Forces and Military Assistance, 1997–2017: Security versus Human Rights in Principal–Agent Relations
Despite its reputation for global democracy promotion, the United States has developed substantial long-term military partnerships with several African countries that have less than stellar human rights records. While in some instances the United States has chosen to rebuke countries for human rights abuses, it has also elected to continue security partnerships with others in the face of similarly credible accusations. To explain this seeming inc…
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 1975–1991
African Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Indigenization and Multilateralism
With the onset of the twenty-first century, power distribution has become a key factor in African security. In western and southern Africa, power has become more concentrated and hierarchical, especially with the growing assertiveness of three regional powers, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and organizations (ECOWAS and SADC) which have the authority, salience and capability to mount and lead security operations. In contrast, in central and …
Women's Voice and Agency in Rural Africa: Small-Scale Communal Farmers in Zimbabwe
In Africa, women farmers must gain greater access to markets if they are to overcome patriarchy and fulfill their potential as agriculturalists. In spite of the prevailing reality of patriarchy and male domination, many rural women have been able to surmount the obstacles which have prevented the vast majority from becoming successful farmers and marketers. In this article, cases are depicted in which women have overcome barriers and become parti…
Women's Voice and Agency in Rural Africa: Small-Scale Communal Farmers in Zimbabwe
In Africa, women farmers must gain greater access to markets if they are to overcome patriarchy and fulfill their potential as agriculturalists. In spite of the prevailing reality of patriarchy and male domination, many rural women have been able to surmount the obstacles which have prevented the vast majority from becoming successful farmers and marketers. In this article, cases are depicted in which women have overcome barriers and become parti…
Smallholder Voice and Rural Transformation: Zimbabwe and Kenya Compared
Among more than fifty African states, Zimbabwe and Kenya represent two of a handful of success stories where agricultural production and marketing boomed after independence and smallholders played a major role.' In first five years of independence, from 1980 to 1985, Zimbabwe's small-scale communal farmers tripled production of maize and cotton, country's key crops; communal sector superseded privileged large-scale commercial sector in both produ…
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, 1975–1991
African Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Indigenization and Multilateralism
With the onset of the twenty-first century, power distribution has become a key factor in African security. In western and southern Africa, power has become more concentrated and hierarchical, especially with the growing assertiveness of three regional powers, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and organizations (ECOWAS and SADC) which have the authority, salience and capability to mount and lead security operations. In contrast, in central and …
The Rollback of South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program
South Africa's Nuclear Decisions
July 01 2002 South Africa's Nuclear Decisions Helen E. Purkitt, Helen E. Purkitt Professor in the Department of Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Stephen F. Burgess, Stephen F. Burgess Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and International Security at the U.S. Air War College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Peter Liberman P…
South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme: A Historical and International Perspective
This article describes important historical roots and factors that influenced the evolution of South Africa's past covert chemical and biological warfare (CBW) programme, Project Coast. Some of the complex international linkages developed under the auspices of Project Coast are also discussed. The conclusion discusses some of the characteristics of the programme that help to explain these widely varying assessments
South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Fashioning Integrated Security Forces after Conflict
In Africa, peacemakers have established arrangements to fashion integrated militaries and police forces out of what were warring government and rebel forces. Success has been achieved because of a combination of four factors: state strength, external involvement and assistance, quality of contending forces, and management of the process, and failure has occurred because one or more of those factors have been absent. Since most African states in c…
Environment and Human Security in the Horn of Africa
No accessFULL TEXTJournal of Human SecurityOther Journal Article01 January 2008Environment and Human Security in the Horn of Africa Authors: Stephen F Burgess Authors: Stephen F Burgess Associate Director, US Air Force Counterproliferation Center, and Associate Professor, Department of International Security, US Air War College, 1205 Anderson Hall, Maxwell AFB, AL 36112, USA, email: [email protected], tel: +1 334 953 7076, fax: +1 334 953 1958 Go…
In the National Interest? Authoritarian Decision-making and the Problematic Creation of US Africa Command
US Department of Defense change agents pursued transformation in creating US Africa Command and focused inwardly to win the bureaucratic struggle. In contrast, they did not bother to consult with African leaders and made assumptions about African reactions to AFRICOM, which demonstrated a lack of empathy. The authoritarian leadership style of Rumsfeld brought about the unworkable directive that AFRICOM headquarters should be placed on the African…
We Can Get Something More Complete: Participatory Budgeting to Enhance Sustainability
This is a study of participatory budgeting, where citizens participate in local government decision-making, leading to enhanced sustainability
Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age: Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon
1. IntroductionToshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes 2. After Proliferation: Deterrence Theory and Emerging Powers Joshua Rovner 3. South Africa's Strategy: Deterring Total Onslaught and Nuclear Blackmail in Three StagesHelen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess 4. The Future of Chinese Policy and StrategyChristopher T. Yeaw, Andrew S. Erickson, and Michael S. Chase 5. North Korea's Weapons Program: Motivations, Strategy, and DoctrineTerence Roehrig 6…
A Lost Cause Recouped: Peace Enforcement and State-Building in Somalia
A constitutional convention with representation from clan elders adopted a new constitution for Somalia on 1 August 2012, which paved the way for the election of a federal parliament and a new president of the Federal Republic of Somalia. This article examines two opposing explanations for this progress in a country long dismissed as a lost cause. Bottom-up stability, with grassroots equilibrium, is argued to be more likely to bring representatio…
This Means War? China's Scramble for Minerals and Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa
The tendency for rising powers to seek control of resource markets is being repeated in Southern Africa, where rising powers led by China are competing for strategic minerals. This could lead to market failure, shutting out Western companies. However, competition does not mean that armed conflict will occur. The global reach of the United States is such that it can take measures short of war to guarantee the flow of minerals. China will be at a s…
Comparative Challenges in Securing the Horn of Africa and Sahara
Geography helps to explain why violent extremist organizations are difficult to counter; vast ungoverned spaces combined with weak states make it nearly impossible to decisively defeat them. However, partial success has been achieved by the United States in the Horn of Africa with a strategy of training, equipping, and supporting African intervention forces and attacking extremist leaders. In contrast, a strategy of containment in the Sahara, foc…
Rising bipolarity in the South China Sea: The American rebalance to Asia and China's expansion
This article synthesizes three elements of power and balancing in the South China Sea (SCS): analytical perspectives on China's behaviour and intentions, the American rebalance to Asia and the dispositions of American allies and partners. Based on extensive interviews and theoretical analysis, it concludes that ‘soft balancing’ backed by American military power provides the optimum chance for resolving the growing dispute. Short to medium-term we…
UN and AU counterterrorism norm acceptance: Comparative security policies of Uganda and Chad
Uganda and Chad both took risks to implement global counterterrorism (CT) norms by mounting expeditionary operations against violent extremist organizations (VEOs) because of the Pan-Africanist vision of Ugandan president Museveni and the more realist motivation of Chadian president Déby. The resources that the United States, France, and the EU have provided have enabled the two countries to execute difficult operations. Internally, both countrie…
Multilateral defense cooperation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region: Tentative steps toward a regional Nato
Some U.S. military leaders have asserted that the United States, Japan, Australia, and India and the Republic of Korea are developing multilateral defense cooperation to deter aggression and uphold norms much like North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has in Europe. Frequent military exercises and China’s threats to freedom of navigation (FoN) and North Korea’s nuclear missiles comprise the motive force for such cooperation. However, cooperat…
International support for state building in war-torn Africa: Are there alternative strategies
This article demonstrates that there are multiple strategies for state building, peace building, and security for civilian populations. In five cases of ongoing conflict, the liberal model of top-down state building and elections has caused considerable loss of lives and resources and could be considered to have failed. There are no long-term prospects for success in any of the five countries where the liberal model is being implemented with inte…
U.S. Training of African Forces and Military Assistance, 1997–2017: Security versus Human Rights in Principal–Agent Relations
Despite its reputation for global democracy promotion, the United States has developed substantial long-term military partnerships with several African countries that have less than stellar human rights records. While in some instances the United States has chosen to rebuke countries for human rights abuses, it has also elected to continue security partnerships with others in the face of similarly credible accusations. To explain this seeming inc…
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