Page 1 of 21 John F. Clark Department of Politics and International Relations Florida International University Miami, FL 33199 [email protected] Education Ph.D., Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, August 1992 Dissertation: Superpower Intervention in Several Conflicts of Sub-Saharan Africa M.A., Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, May 1988 Thesis: Realism and the Reagan Doctrine A.B., Political Science, Magna Cum Laude, Georgia Southern College, June 1986 Minors: French and International Studies Major Appointments Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, FIU, Fall 2009—present Chairperson, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University (FIU), Fall 2016—Summer 2020 Honorary Visiting Professor, Institute of Interdisciplinary Training and Research, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda, Fall 2014—present Chairperson, Department of International Relations, FIU, Fall 2002-December 2008 (see p.17) Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, FIU, Fall 1997-Summer 2009 Graduate Director, Department of International Relations, FIU, 2000-2001 Fulbright Lecturer/Research Scholar, Makerere University, Uganda, September 1999-July 2000 Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, FIU, Fall 1992--Summer 1997 (Instructor during 1991-92 academic year) Research Assistant/Editor, Miller Center of Public Affairs, (Research Center on the American Presidency, University of Virginia) January 1987-June 1990 Books Page 2 of 21 Africa’s International Relations: Balancing Domestic and Global Interests, co-authored with Beth Whitaker. Boulder, Colo: Lynne Rienner, 2018. Historical Dictionary of Congo, 4th ed., co-authored with Samuel Decalo. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2012. The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2008. The African Stakes of the Congo War, Edited. New York: Palgrave, and Kampala, Uganda: Fountain, 2002. Political Reform in Francophone Africa, Co-edited with David E. Gardinier. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997. Journal Articles “South Africa: Africa’s Reluctant and Conflicted Regional Power.” Air and Space Power Journal: Africa and Francophonie 7, no.1 (Spring 2016): 30-47. “Peacemaking or Pacification for the Pool: The Restoration of State Authority in a Rebellious Region of Congo-Brazzaville.” Journal of African Policy Studies 20, no.1 (2014): 39-70. (With Brett L. Carter). “Neither war nor peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): profiting and coping amid violence and disorder.” Review of African Political Economy 40, no.135 (March 2013): 1-12. (With Miles Larmer and Ann Laudati). “A Constructivist Account of the Congo Wars.” African Security 4, no.3 (September 2011): 147-170. “Does Democratization Reduce the Risk of Military Interventions in Politics in Africa?” Democratization 15, no.1 (February 2008): 85-105. (With Staffan I. Lindberg). “The Decline of the African Military Coup.” Journal of Democracy 18, no.2 (2007): 141-155. Reprinted under the same title in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., Democratization in Africa: Progress and Retreat, 2nd. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010: 73-87. “Understanding Democratic Survival and Democratic Failure in Africa: Insights from the Divergent Democratic Experiments in Benin and Congo.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no.3 (July 2005): 552-582 (With Bruce A. Magnusson). “Resource Revenues and Political Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Congo Republic in Page 3 of 21 Comparative Perspective.” Afrika Spectrum 37, no.1 (2002): 25-41. “The Neo-Colonial Context of the Democratic Experiment of Congo-Brazzaville.” African Affairs 101, no.403 (April 2002): 171-192. Reprinted as “Le context néocolonial de l’expérience démocratique au Congo-Brazzaville,” in Patrick Quantin, ed., L’Afrique politique 2002, Paris: Karthala, 2003. [Annual compendium of important articles on African politics and society.] “Explaining Ugandan Intervention in Congo: evidence and explanations.” Journal of Modern African Studies 39, no.2 (June 2001): 261-87. “UEMOA and ECOWAS: Conflict or Cooperation in the Era of the ‘New Regionalism.’” Global Development Studies 2, nos. 3-4 (Spring 2001): 167-195. (With Sekou Camara) “The Clinton Administration and Africa: White House Involvement and the Foreign Affairs Bureaucracies in Clinton’s Africa Policy.” Issue 26, no.2 (1998): 8-13. “The Nature and Evolution of the State in Zaire.” Studies in Comparative International Development 32, no.4 (Winter 1998): 3-23. “Foreign Intervention in the Civil War of the Congo Republic.” Issue 26, no.1 (1998): 31-36. “Democracy Dismantled in the Congo Republic.” Current History 97, no. 619 (May 1998): 234- 237. “Petro-Politics in the Republic of Congo.” Journal of Democracy 8, no. 3 (July 1997): 62-76. “Reform or Democratization for Africa? Troubling Constraints and Partial Solutions,” Transafrica Forum 10, no. 1 (1996): 3-19. “Ethno-Regionalism in Zaire: Roots, Manifestations and Meaning,” Journal of African Policy Studies 1, no. 2 (1995): 23-45. “Evaluating the Efficacy of Foreign Policy: An Essay on the Complexity of Foreign Policy Goals,” Southeastern Political Review 23, no. 4 (December 1995): 559-79. “Elections, Leadership and Democracy in Congo,” Africa Today 41, no.3, (3rd Quarter 1994): 41-60. “The Constraints on Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case for Limited Democracy,”SAIS Review XIV, no.2 (Summer-Fall 1994): 91-108. Reprinted in Lyn Graybill and Kenneth W. Thompson, eds., Africa’s Second Wave of Freedom, Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1998: 43-64. “The National Conference as an Instrument of Democratization in Francophone Africa,” Journal Page 4 of 21 of Third World Studies 11, no.1 (Spring 1994): 304-335. “Collective Interventions After the Cold War: Lessons from the U.N. Mission to the Congo, 1960-1964,” Journal of Political Science 12 (1994): 93-115. “Socio-Political Change in the Republic of the Congo: Political Dilemmas of Economic Reform,” Journal of Third World Studies 10, no.1 (Spring 1993): 52-77. Chapters in Edited Books “Political Culture and Post-Colonial Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” in Jennifer Leaning, ed., Legacies of War: Enduring Memories, Persistent Patterns. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020, forthcoming. “African Regime Interests and the ‘Securitization of the Economic Community of Central Africa States,” in Jason Warner and Timothy M. Shaw, eds., African Foreign Policies in International Institutions. New York: Palgrave, 2018: 127-148. (With Graham Palmateer). “Identity Politics, Governance, and Development in Africa,” in Louis A. Picard, Terry F. Buss, Taylor Seybolt and Macrina Lelei, eds., Sustainable Development and Human Security in Africa: Governance as the Missing Link. Boca Roton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, 2015: 175-194. “The United Nations and African Security,” in James J. Hentz, ed., The Routledge Handbook of African Security. New York: Routledge, 2013: 279-291. “The International Community and Congo’s Recent Crisis,” in Jacques Mangala, ed., New Security Threats and Crises in Africa: Regional and International Perspectives, New York: Palgrave, 2010: 171-190. “When do the Military Step into the Electoral Arena?” in Andreas Schedler, ed., Electoral Authoritarianism, Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2006: 129-148. “Rwanda: Tragic Land of Dual Nationalisms,” in Lowell W. Barrington, ed., After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Post-Colonial and Post-Communist States. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006: 71-106. “The Collapse of the Democratic Experiment in the Republic of Congo: A Thick Description,” in Leonardo Villalon and Peter VonDoepp, eds., The Fate of Africa’s Democratic Experiments, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005: 96-125. “Petroleum Revenues and Political Development in the Congo Republic: The Democratic Page 5 of 21 Experiment and Beyond,” in Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler, eds., Resource Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hamburg: Institute for African Studies, 2005: 121-144. “Introduction: Causes and Consequences of the Congo War,” in Clark, ed., The African Stakes of the Congo War, pp.1-10 “Museveni’s Adventure in the Congo War: Uganda’s Vietnam?” in Clark, ed., The African Stakes of the Congo War, pp.145-165. “The Economic Consequences of the Congo War,” in Clark, ed., The African Stakes of the Congo War, pp.201-223. (With Mungbalemwe Koyame, first author) “Foreign Policy Making in Central Africa: The Imperative of Regime Security in a New Context” in Gilbert Khadiagala and Terrence Lyons, eds., African Foreign Policy: Power and Process, Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2001: 67-86. “Realism, Neo-Realism and Africa’s International Relations in the Post Cold-War Era,” in Kevin Dunn and Timothy Shaw, eds., Africa’s Challenge to International Relations Theory, New York: Palgrave, 2001: 85-102. “What Price Empire? A Study of the Costs and Benefits of American Involvement in Zaire” in Stuart Nagel, ed., Handbook of Global International Policy, New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000: 21-41. “Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire as a Nondemocratic Presidential Leader” in Lyn Graybill and Kenneth W. Thompson, eds., Africa’s Second Wave of Freedom, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 1998: 81-101. “Political Culture, Civil Society and the National Conferences in Francophone Africa,” in Julius Ihonvbere and John M. Mbaku, eds., Multi-party Democracy and Political Change: Constraints on Democratization in Africa,