Africa

United States of America

Assistant Professor

Barnard College, Columbia University, New York

sa435@columbia.edu

Department of Political Science
Barnard College
Columbia University
3009 Broadway
New York, New York 10027-6598 USA

phone: 212-854-4877
fax: 212-854-3024

Democratic Republic of Congo

- Research on civil and international wars, international interventions,
and African politics

- Current research project on local violence and international
intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo

- African-studies related teaching: classes on African civil wars and on
aid and politics in Africa

Recent:

Forthcoming 2010. The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence
and the Failure of International Peacebuilding. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

"Hobbes and the Congo: Frames, Local Violence, and International
Intervention," International Organization, Vol. 63, pp. 249-280, 2009.

"Penser les Conflits Locaux: L'Echec de l'Intervention Internationale au
Congo." L'Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2007-2008. Paris :
L'Harmattan, 2008.

"The Trouble with Congo - How Local Disputes Fuel Regional Violence,"
Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008.

"D.R. Congo: Explaining Peace Building Failures, 2003-2006," Review of
African Political Economy, September 2007.

"Local violence, National Peace? Post-war .settlement. in the Eastern D.R.
Congo," African Studies Review, December 2006.

"The United States 'humanitarian diplomacy' in South Sudan," Journal of
Humanitarian Affairs, January 2002.
http://jha.ac/

I am also working on a book: Local Violence, International Indifference?
The Failure of Peace Building in the Congo.

civil wars ; international wars ; international intervention ; African politics.