l'Afrique

Allemagne

Director

Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, Germany

mehler@giga-hamburg.de

Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg
German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354
Hamburg
Germany

phone: +49.40.42825.523
fax: +49.40.42825.511

http://www.giga-hamburg.de/

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire.

Political science: causes of conflict and conflict prevention ;
democratization processes and elections in Francophone Africa; political
parties; ethnicity ; special interest in Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Côte d'Ivoire.

Political science: causes of conflict and conflict prevention ;
democratization processes and elections in Francophone Africa; political
parties; ethnicity ; special interest in Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Côte d'Ivoire.

Collective works

Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler (eds.): Resource Politics in Africa
(Hamburg African Studies; 14), Hamburg: IAK, 2005.

Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber, and Klaas van Walraven (eds.): Africa
Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara, Leiden:
Brill, 2005.

Tobias Debiel, Andreas Mehler, Stephan Klingebiel and Ulrich Schneckener:
Between Ignorance and Intervention. Strategies and Dilemmas of External
Actors in Fragile States (SEF Policy Paper 23), Bonn, 2005.

Ulf Engel, Gero Erdmann, Andreas Mehler (eds.): Tanzania Revisited:
Political Stability, Aid Dependency and Development Constraints (Hamburg
African Studies; 10), Hamburg, 2000.

Peace-Building and Conflict Prevention in Developing Countries. A Practical
Guide, Ebenhausen/Brussels, 1999 (with Michael Lund et al.).

Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management in Technical Cooperation. An
Overview of the National and International Debate, Wiesbaden, 2000 (with
Claude Ribaux).

"Closing the gap" between early warning and early action: Applying
political science to violent conflict in Africa (University of Leipzig
Papers on Africa; 44), Leipzig, 2000 (with Ulf Engel).

Articles

"Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflicts and the Evaluation of Preventive
Practice in Africa," in Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, and Anna-Maria Gentili
(Hrsg.): Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? Theories of Conflict and
Approaches to Conflict Prevention, Leiden: Brill 2005, 99-123.

"The hidden costs of power-sharing: Reproducing insurgent violence in
Africa," African Affairs; 104 (2005) 416: 375-398 (with Denis Tull).

"Major flaws in conflict prevention policies towards Africa. The
conceptional deficits of international actors? approaches and how to
overcome them," German Overseas Institute, Hamburg, 2005.

"The shaky foundations, adverse circumstances and limited achievements of
democratic transition in the Central African Republic," in Leo
Villalon and Peter VonDoepp (eds.): The Fate of Africa's Democratic
Experiments: Elites and Institutions. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press 2005, 126-152.

"African Studies and Africa policy?: a precarious relationship,"
Development and Cooperation, 31 (2004) 1, S.24-27 (with Ulf Engel).

"Oligopolies of violence in Africa south of the Sahara," Nord-Süd
aktuell 18 (2004) 3, S. 539-548.

"African Resources and War," Internationale Politik Transatlantic
Edition, 4 (2003) 3, 95-100 (with Matthias Basedau).

Decentralization, Division of Power and Crisis Prevention: A Theoretical
Exploration with Reference to Africa, in: Tobias Debiel/Axel Klein.
(eds.): Fragile Peace. State Failure, Violence and Development in Crisis
Regions, London etc. 2002, 72-85.

Structural Stability: Meaning, scope and use in an African context, in:
Afrika Spectrum, 37 (2002) 1, 5-23.

"Cameroon," in Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich, and Bernhard Thibaut
(eds.): Elections in Africa. A Data Handbook, Oxford 1999, 167-188.

Central African Republic, in: Dieter Nohlen/Michael Krennerich/Bernhard
Thibaut (eds.): Elections in Africa. A Data Handbook, Oxford 1999,
205-220.

"La démocratie n'est pas un vaccin: politique formelle et
informelle en République Centrafricaine," in: CEAN: L'Afrique
politique 2000, Talence 2000 (with Vincent da Cruz).

"Cameroun and the politics of patronage," in David Birmingham and Phyllis
M. Martin (eds.): History of Central Africa. The contemporary years since
1960, London/New York 1998, 43-65.

"Cameroun: une transition qui n'a pas eu lieu," Jean-Pascal
Daloz/Patrick Quantin (eds.): Transitions démocratiques africaines,
Paris 1997, 95-138.

conflict ; political parties ; ethnicity ; politics; elections.