Herman J Cohen

Biographic Data

ID83216
NAMEHerman J Cohen
GIVEN NAMESHerman J
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN H J
AFFILIATIONSU.S. Global Leadership Coalition
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS33
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
H-INDEX2

  • Aiding Strife

    Herman J Cohen, Paul CollierARTICLEForeign Policy2003

  • The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa

    Open AccessHerman J CohenARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2001

    Journal Article The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa Get access The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa by Courtney Jung. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000. 294 pp. $35.00. Herman J. Cohen Herman J. Cohen Johns Hopkins University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 116, Issue 4, Winter 2001, Pages 670–671, https://doi.org/10.2307/798245 Published: 15 February 2013

  • Intervening in Africa

    Gail M Gerhart, Herman J CohenARTICLEForeign Affairs2001Cited by: 1

  • Intervening in Africa

    Open AccessHerman J CohenBOOKIntervening in Africa2000

    As the Cold War faded, Ambassador Hank Cohen, President George Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for Africa, engaged in aggressive diplomatic intervention in Africa's civil wars. In this revealing b

  • Angola

    Open AccessHerman J CohenCHAPTERIntervening in Africa2000

    Angola headed our African agenda early in the Bush administration. US involvement in the Angolan civil war had begun in 1986 through “covert” assistance to Dr Jonas Savimbi and his UNITA insurgents. 1 It was a surrogate war between the Soviets and Cubans on one side and the United States and South Africa on the other. With President Bush and Secretary Baker placing a high priority on ending the Cold War, Angola was a logical place for superpower …

  • Liberia

    Open AccessHerman J CohenCHAPTERIntervening in Africa2000

    In a technical sense, Liberia’s civil war began on 24 December 1989 when a hundred armed insurgents of the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) crossed into Nimba County from neighboring Côte d’Ivoire. In a larger sense, the war began on 12 April 1980 when seventeen inebriated noncommissioned officers of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) invaded the Presidential Palace and assassinated President William R. Tolbert, Jr. These same soldiers t…

  • Out of Conflict. From War to Peace in Africa

    Herman J Cohen, Gunnar M Sorbo et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1999Cited by: 5

    Africa has become enveloped in an image of disaster and strife. The history of conflict management, likewise, is largely the history of failure. This book identifies lessons to be learnt from conflict management in Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, and others. It underlines the importance of a thorough understanding of the causes and dynamics of a conflict in order to find appropriate strategies of intervention

  • The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa

    Herman J Cohen, Adebayo Olukoshi et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review1999Cited by: 27

  • Elections and Conflict Management in Africa

    Herman J CohenREVIEWAfrican Studies Review1999

    Elections and electoral systems ethnicity, elections and constitutional democracy in Africa rethinking the applicability of Proportional Representation for Africa elections in Southern Africa electoral systems and conflict management in Africa managing electoral conflicts - lessons from Ghana race, ethnicity and voting behaviour - lessons from South Africa elections and conflict management in Africa - conclusions and recommendations

  • Enough Already

    David Isenberg, Brad De Long et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1997