African and African Diaspora Studies

John Clark

BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

John F. Clark is Associate Professor and Chairperson, since 2002, of the Department of International Relations at Florida International University (Miami).  He holds a B.A. (Political Science) degree from Georgia Southern University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (Foreign Affairs) from the University of Virginia.  He specializes in the state-society relations of African polities and the international relations of sub-Saharan Africa.  He is co-editor of Political Reform in Francophone Africa (1997), editor of The African Stakes of the Congo War (2002), and author of The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo (2008) http://www.rienner.com/title/The_Failure_of_Democracy_in_the_Republic_of_Congo.  

He has also published some thirty-five articles and book chapters since 1993, including articles in African Affairs, the Journal of Democracy, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and the Africa Spectrum.  During the 1999-2000 academic year he was a Fulbright lecturer and research scholar at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda , and he has made five research trips to the Republic ofCongo and the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1990.  He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the African Politics Conference Group.

SELECT COURSES

INR 3253 International Relations of Sub-Saharan Africa

INR 5255 Seminar in African Development


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