Nancy Balfour

Biographic Data

ID965118
NAMENancy Balfour
GIVEN NAMESNancy
FAMILY NAMEBalfour
SIGNATUREBALFOUR N
AFFILIATIONSCentre for Humanitarian Change Kenya
ORCID0009-0008-7230-1079
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS20
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1949
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • The mixed resilience outcomes of water interventions in the pastoral drylands of the Horn of Africa

    Open AccessJackson Wachira, Mahdi Taye et al.ARTICLEDisasters2026

    In recent decades, development and humanitarian actors in the Horn of Africa have employed the concept of resilience to design and justify the establishment of diverse water supply systems. The principal aim of these interventions is to enhance pastoralists' resilience to droughts and other shocks. However, limited empirical research has examined the resilience outcomes of new and existing water supply systems in pastoral areas. This study addres…

  • Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data

    Open AccessWilliam A Vene, Nancy Balfour et al.ARTICLEDisasters2025References: 61

    Droughts are a primary driver of humanitarian crises in arid regions, yet early warning systems that index humanitarian financing often omit water security data in favour of food security monitoring. Based on 42 expert interviews assessing management barriers and information needs during the 2020-24 drought in the Horn of Africa, resulting in an estimated 71,100 excess deaths in Somalia alone, we find water security data to be critical in shiftin…

  • Data, guidelines and ethics for managing flood risk when people are already forcibly displaced

    Open AccessLaurence Hawker, Mark A Trigg et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Data, guidelines and ethics for managing flood risk when people are already forcibly displaced, Hawker, Laurence, Trigg, Mark A, Kruczkiewicz, Andrew, Bernhofen, Mark, Katsi, Luckson, Paterson, Ruby, Speight, Linda, Van Den Hoek, Jamon, Balfour, Nancy

  • A weak health response is increasing the risk of excess mortality as food crisis worsens in Somalia

    Open AccessAndrew Seal, Francesco Checchi et al.ARTICLEConflict and Health2017

  • President Carter's Inheritance

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1977

    Journal Article President Carter's Inheritance Get access In Our Time: America from World War II to Nixon. By Godfrey Hodgson. London: Macmillan. 1977. (First publ. New York: Doubleday, 1976.) 564 pp. £7.95.Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. By Doris Kearns. London: Deutsch; New York: Harper and Row. 1976. 432 pp. £6.95.The Creative Balance: Government, Politics and the Individual in America's Third Century. By Elliot Richardson. London: Hami…

  • Goodbye to Uncle Tom and Segregation

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1957

    Journal Article Goodbye to Uncle Tom and Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South Get access Goodbye to Uncle Tom. By J. C. Furnas. London, Secker and Warburg, 1956. 435 pp. Illus. Index. 30s.Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South. By Robert Penn Warren. New York, Random House, 1956. 66 pp. $1.95. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 33, Issue …

  • Speeches

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1954

  • United States Foreign Policy

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1954

    Journal Article United States Foreign Policy: Its Organization and Control Get access United States Foreign Policy: Its Organization and Control. By William Yandell Elliott. (Report of a Study Group for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.) Preface By Harry D. Gideonse. New York, Columbia University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1953. xviii+288 pp. Index. 9′×6′$3.75. 24s. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: O…

  • William Randolph Hearst

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1953

    Journal Article William Randolph Hearst: a Portrait in his own words Get access William Randolph Hearst: a Portrait in his own words. Ed. by Edmond D. Coblentz. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1952. x+309 pp. Illus. 812′ ′×634′ ′ . $3.50. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 1953, Page 211, https://doi.org/10.2307/2608999 Published: 01 Apr…

  • Major Problems of United States Foreign Policy 1952–1953

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1953

    Journal Article Major Problems of United States Foreign Policy 1952–1953 Get access Major Problems of United States Foreign Policy 1952–1953. Prepared by the Staff of the International Studies Group of the Brookings Institution. Foreword by Harold G. Moulton (President). Preface by Leo Pasvolsky (Director). Washington, The Brookings Institution; London, Faber, 1952. xiv+412 pp. Diagrams. Maps. Charts. Bibliog. Index. 914′ ′×614′ ′ . Paper $2. Clo…

  • Congress

    Nancy Balfour, Ernest S GriffithARTICLEInternational Affairs1953

    Congress : Its Contemporary Role Congress : Its Contemporary Role. By Ernest S. Griffith. New York, University Press; London, Oxford University Press, 1951. vii+193 pp. Index. (James Stokes Lectureship on Politics, New York University. Stokes Foundation.) 912′ ′×614′ ′ . $3.50. 28s. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 29, Issue 1, January 1953, Page 129…

  • Foreign Aid and the National Interest

    Nancy Balfour, Joseph BarberARTICLEInternational Affairs1953Cited by: 1

  • America's Man of Destiny

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1953

    Journal Article America's Man of Destiny: an Intimate Biography of General Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson Get access America's Man of Destiny: an Intimate Biography of General Eisenhower. By Kevin McCann. London, Heinemann, 1952. ix+201 pp. 834′ ′×512′ ′ . 12s. 6d.Adlai Stevenson. By John Bartlow Martin. London, Gollancz, 1952. vii+175 pp. 8′′ × 5′′. 12s. 6d. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…

  • The World the Dollar Built

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1953

    The World the Dollar Built The World the Dollar Built. By Gunther Stein. London, Dobson, 1952. 288 pp. Index. 834′ ′×534′ ′ . 12s. 6d. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 1953, Page 269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2609112 Published: 01 April 1953

  • American Imperialism

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1952

    Journal Article American Imperialism Get access American Imperialism. By Victor Perlo. New York, International Publishers, 1951. 256 pp. Tables. Index. 814′ ′×512′ ′ . $2.75. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 1952, Page 132, https://doi.org/10.2307/2605095 Published: 01 January 1952

  • Congress and Foreign Policy

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1951Cited by: 12

    Journal Article Congress and Foreign Policy Get access Congress and Foreign Policy. By Robert A. Dahl. New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1950. x+305 pp. Tables. Index. (Institute of International Studies, Yale University.) 81⁄4′′ × 51⁄2′′ $4. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 1951, Pages 401–402, https://doi.org/10.2307/2606531 Published: 0…

  • Our Farm Program and Foreign Trade

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1951

    Our Farm Program and Foreign Trade: a Conflict of National Policies Get access Our Farm Program and Foreign Trade: a Conflict of National Policies. By C. Addison Hickman. Foreword by Percy W. Bidwell. New York, Council on Foreign Relations, 1949. xii+108 pp. Charts. Tables. 83⁄4′′ × 6′′. $2. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 1951, Pa…

  • U.s.A

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1950Cited by: 1

    Journal Article U.S.A.: Measure of a Nation; a Graphic Presentation of America's Needs and Resources Get access U.S.A.: Measure of a Nation; a Graphic Presentation of America's Needs and Resources. By Thomas R. Carskadon and Rudolf Modley. New York, Macmillan for the Twentieth Century Fund, 1949. 100 pp. Diagrams. 11′ ′×812′ ′ . No price. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internat…

  • Party and Pressure Politics

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1950Cited by: 6

    Party and Pressure Politics Get access Party and Pressure Politics. By Dayton David McKean. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1949. viii+712 pp. Tables. Index. 912′ ′×612′ ′ . $5. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1950, Pages 583–584, https://doi.org/10.2307/2607233 Published: 01 October 1950

  • Labour Politics in U.S.A

    Nancy BalfourARTICLEInternational Affairs1949

    Journal Article Labour Politics in U.S.A Get access Labour Politics in U.S.A. By Mark Starr. Foreword by Margaret Cole. London, Fabian Publications and Gollancz, 1949. 56 pp. Appendixes. Bibliog. (Research Series 133.) 814′ ′×514′ ′ 2s.6d. Nancy Balfour Nancy Balfour Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 1949, Page 554, https://doi.org/10.2307/3018548 Published:…