The positive effects of rule of law norms and institutions are often assumed in the fields of global governance and international development, with empirical work focusing more on the challenges of using law to engineer social change abroad. Questioning this assumption, the book…
"The positive effects of rule of law norms and institutions are often assumed in the fields of global governance and international development, with empirical work focusing more on the challenges of using law to engineer social change abroad. Questioning this assumption, the boo…
"The positive effects of rule of law norms and institutions are often assumed in the fields of global governance and international development, with empirical work focusing more on the challenges of using law to engineer social change abroad. Questioning this assumption, the boo…
Drawing on field research and engaging with post-liberal conceptualisations of peacebuilding, this book investigates the interaction of a variety of actors and institutions involved in the provision of peace, security and justice in post-colonial states. The chapters analyse how…
"The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained.…
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a deadly disease with no known cure and it caused an outbreak from 2014-2016 in Western Africa. Liberia had the highest morbidity and mortality; its capital city, Monrovia, was the focus of this study. The purpose of this research was to explore the …
This dissertation explores the impact of the American Civil War on the Liberian nation-building project. While the American Civil War serves as an end point in most studies of colonization and the making of Liberia, this dissertation argues that the war was a pivotal moment in t…
The research project that produced this dissertation is motivated by two concerns, one analytical, the other methodological. Methodologically, I conclude that machine-coded event data produce valid representations of political phenomena in Africa. Additional information for this…
The global economic processes often abbreviated as "globalization" play a significant role in hastening state collapse in weak, post-colonial states where regime legitimacy is undermined by patrimonial politics and the emergence of rivals to state power. The case studies of Libe…
Historical fertility studies and recent world demographic surveys have been kind to researchers who view contraceptive adoption as a diffusion mechanism. In the last decade, major theoretical breakthroughs have been achieved in helping us understand how such diffusion may occur;…
This dissertation on the missionary activity of the Roman Catholic and Assemblies of God churches in four English-speaking West African countries: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria, and Ghana, presents the theologies of mission and evangelization of the two churches, their interpre…
This thesis explores the tension between scientific and portrait photography in nineteenth-century United States through an examination of the daguerreotypes of African Americans who emigrated to Liberia under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. Through an analysi…
Between 1861 and 1885, the emancipation of African American slaves led to debates within white communities and within the United States government over what to do with the newly freed. The colonization of black Americans in lands such as Liberia through the American Colonization…
This is a study of state culture and ethnicity in West Africa, particularly Ghana, Liberia, and Nigeria. These countries represent the diverse cultures and major economies of the West African region. State culture is a polarizing political culture originally created to achieve n…
My dissertation strives to understand the conditions under which peace operations in intra-state wars succeed or fail. I address two main questions: What is peace operation success, and what contributes to such an outcome? I define the success of a peace operation based on two d…
This dissertation examines historical rhetoric about Africa in British and American writings between the beginnings of the Abolition period and the 1884 Berlin Conference at which the continent was divided by colonial powers. Tracing rhetorical trends of travel writers and their…
The study reviews and assesses Nigeria's contributions to ECOMOG peace support operations in Liberia and finds that the contributions indeed positively impacted on the success of the mission. The study reviews all available evidence and finds that without any doubt Nigeria's con…
In 2003, thousands of Liberian women participated in a nonviolent protest action named Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace (WOLMAP). This movement gained international credit for its significant role in ending Liberia's fourteen year civil war and the mobilization for the ele…