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IKE UDOGU
Education: BA: Appalachian State University (Political Science)
MA: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Political Science)
Ph.D.: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (International/Comparative
Politics)
Areas of Expertise: International Relations, Comparative Politics, African Politics,
Human Rights, Conflict Resolutions
Campus Address: 2053 Anne Belk Hall, Department of Government and Justice,
Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 28608
Classes Thought: African Politics, Conflict Resolutions, Comparative Politics, Ethnic
Conflict, International Relations, Minority Politics, Politics of the Developing Nations,
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
E. Ike Udogu (ed.), The Developing World: Critical Issues in Politics and Society
(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press/Rowman and Littlefield, 2012)
E. Ike Udogu, Liberating Namibia: The Long Diplomatic Struggle Between the United
Nations and South Africa (West Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing Ltd., 2011)
E. Ike Udogu, Confronting the Challenges and Prospects in the Creation of a Union of
Africa States in the 21st Century (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2010)
E. Ike Udogu and Alfred B. Zack-Williams (eds.), African Mosaic: The Political,
Social, Healthcare, Education, Economic and Information Communication Technologies
Issues in the 21st Century (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2009)
E. Ike Udogu, African Renaissance in the Millennium: The political, social, and
economic discourses on the way forward (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007)
E. Ike Udogu, African American Politics in Rural America: Theory, Practice and Case
Studies from Florence County, South Carolina (Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 2006)
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E. Ike Udogu (ed.), Nigeria in the 21st Century: Strategies for Political Stability and
Peaceful
Coexistence (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005)
E. Ike Udogu (ed.), The Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa (Aldershot, Brookfield,
Singapore and Sydney: Ashgate Publishers, 2001)
E. Ike Udogu, An African Portrait: A Sociological and Political Fiction (Florence, SC:
Francis Marion University Printing Press, 1999)
E. Ike Udogu (ed.), Democracy and Democratization in Africa: Toward the 21st Century
(Leiden, Koln and Boston: E. J. Brill Publishers, 1997).
E. Ike Udogu, Nigeria and the Politics of Survival as a Nation-state (Lewiston, NY: The
Edwin Mellen Press, 1997)
BOOK CHAPTERS
E. Ike Udogu, “Human Rights Constraints: Analysis and Potential Solutions,” in E. Ike
Udogu (ed.), The Developing World: Critical Issues in Politics and Society (Lanham,
MD:
Scarecrow Press/Rowman and Littlefield Group, 2012)
E. Ike Udogu, “The Politics of Development and Protection of the Environment,” in E.
Ike
Udogu (ed.), The Developing World: Critical Issues in Politics and Society (Lanham,
MD:
Scarecrow Press/Rowman and Littlefield Group, 2012)
E. Ike Udogu, “Minority Groups and Human Rights in Africa: An Overview,”
Introductory
Chapter in Michael U. Mbanaso and Chima J. Korieh (eds.) Minorities and the State
in Africa
(Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2010)
E. Ike Udogu, “Introduction,” African Mosaic: The Political, Social, Healthcare,
Education,
Economic and Information Communication Technologies Issues in the 21st Century
(Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
E. Ike Udogu, “Human Rights, Political Ethnicity and the Issue of Democracy in 21st
Century
Africa: A Concise Overview,” in E. Ike Udogu and Alfred B Zack-Williams (eds.)
African
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Mosaic: The Political, Social, Health, Education, Economic and Information
Communication
Technologies Issues in the 21st Century (Newcastle-upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge
Scholars
Publishing, 2010)
E. Ike Udogu, “Human Rights and the New Globalization in Africa,” in George Kieh
(ed.),
The State in Africa: Beyond False Start (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2008)
Pita O. Agbese and E. Ike Udogu, “Taming of the Shrew: Civil-Military Politics in the
Fourth Republic,” in E. Ike Udogu (ed.), Nigeria in the Twenty-First Century:
Strategies for
Political Stability and Peaceful Coexistence (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005)
E. Ike Udogu, “Building a Sustainable Democracy and Political Stability in the New
Millennium,” in E. Ike Udogu (ed.) Nigeria in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies
for
Political Stability and Peaceful Coexistence (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005)
E. Ike Udogu, “Elections: 2003 Political Contest and Lessons for the Future,” in E.
Ike Udogu (ed.), Nigeria in the Twenty-First Century: Strategies for Political
Stability
and Peaceful Coexistence (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005)
E. Ike Udogu, “Human Rights and Minorities: A Theoretical Discourse,” in Paul
Tiyambe Zeleza and Philip M. McConnaughay (eds.), Human Rights, Development and
the Rule of Law in Africa (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)
E. Ike Udogu, “Africa and the Search for Political Stability in the New Century,” in Olu
Uduku abd A. B.Zack-Williams (eds.), Africa Beyond the Postcolonial: Reading in
Culture
Politics and Sociology (Aldershot, Brookfield, Singapore and Sidney: Ashgate
Publishers,
2004)
E. Ike Udogu, “The Struggle for Stability in Nigeria’s Contemporary Politics (19901999)
and Lessons for the Fourth Republic,” in John M. Mbaku and S. C. Saxena (eds.),
Africa
at the Crossroads: Between Regionalism and Globalization (Westport, CT:
Greenwood
Publishing Group, Inc., 2004)
E. Ike Udogu, “Liberal Democracy and Federalism in Contemporary Politics,” in Toyin
Falola (ed.), Nigeria in the 20th Century (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic
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Publishers,
2002)
E. Ike Udogu, “Economic Community of West African States: From Economic Union to
a
Peacekeeping Mission?” in Thomas D. Boston (ed.), Leading Issues in Black
Political
Economy (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002)
E. Ike Udogu, “Africa and Political Stability in the 21st Century,” in S. C. Saxena (ed.),
Africa Beyond 2000 (New Delhi: Kalinga Publications, 2001)
E. Ike Udogu, “Ethnicity and Theory in African Politics,” in E. Ike Udogu (ed.), The
Issue of Political Ethnicity in Africa (Aldershot, Burlington, Singapore, Sydney: Ashgate
Publishers, 2001)
E. Ike Udogu, “Ethnicity and Democratization in sub-Saharan Africa,” in John M.
Mbaku
(ed.), Preparing Africa for the Twenty-first Century: Strategies for Peaceful Coexistence
and Sustainable Development (Aldershot, Brookfield, Singapore and Sydney:
Ashgate
Publishing Limited, 1999)
E. Ike Udogu, “The Issues of Development and Environment in Africa: An Overview,”
in
Rukhsana A. Siddiqui (ed.), Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s: Challenges to
Democracy and
Development (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997)
E. Ike Udogu, “Incomplete Metamorphic Democracy as a Conceptual Framework in the
Analysis of African Politics: An Exploratory Investigation,” in E. Ike Udogu (ed.),
Democracy and Democratization in Africa: Toward the 21st Century (Leiden, New
York,
ARTICLES
“Human Rights Issues of Minorities in Contemporary India: A Concise Analysis,”
Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 14. No. 1 (Spring Issue 2012). Coauthored with
Sambuddha Ghatak (Doctoral Student, University of Tennessee)
“The National Question in Liberia,” Liberian Studies Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2010), pp.
28-54
“A Concise Discourse on Human Rights Practices in Africa: The Case of Peripheral
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Populations,” Southwestern Journal of International Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring
2009), pp. 103-123
“The Issue of Political Leadership in the Third World: What is to be done?”
Journal of Third World Studies Vol. 25, No. 1(Spring 2008), pp. 13-23 (SEE ALSO
ENCYCLOPIA BRITANNICA FOR THIS ARTICLE)
“Historicizing and Contextualizing the Discourse on African International Law and a
Concise Overview of the Pacific Settlement of the Cameroon-Nigeria Bakassi Peninsula
Dispute,” African and Asian Studies, Vol. 7 (2008), pp. 77-99.
“African Development and the Immigration of Its Intelligentsia: An Overview.”
Irinkerindo: A Journal of African Migration, Issue 3, September 2004.
http://www.africamigration.com/
“Reviving Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria’s Current Politics: A Concise
Analysis,” Africa Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2004), pp. 69-88.
“National Constitutions and Human Rights Issues in Africa,” African and Asian Studies,
Vol. 2, No. 2 (2003), pp. 101-123.
77. “Human Rights and Minorities in Africa: A Theoretical and Conceptual Overview,”
Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XVIII, No. 1 (Spring 2001), pp. 87-104.
“Political Leadership and Governance in Democratic Nigeria,” Africa Quarterly, Vol. 40,
No. 3 (2000), pp. 109-131.
An Examination of Minority Groups and Human Rights Issues in Europe and Africa,”
Journal of Political Science, Vol. 28 (2000), pp. 21-43
“Economic Community of West African States: From an Economic Union to a Peacekeeping Mission?” The Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Spring
1999), pp. 55-74.
“The Issue of Ethnicity and Democratization in Africa: Toward the Millennium,” Journal
of Black Studies, Vol. 29, No. 6 (July 1999), pp. 790-808. (JSTOR)
“Prospects and Challenges in Post-apartheid South Africa: Toward the Next
Millennium,” Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. XV, fasc. 2 (September 1999), pp.
220-234.
“Ethnicity, the State and the Issue of Nation-building in Nigeria’s Forthcoming
Republic,” Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies, Vol. 18,
No. 4 (December 1999), pp. 5-22.
“Military Politics and Constitutional Discourse: Towards Nigeria’s Forthcoming
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Republic,” Makerere Political Science Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 1997), pp. 1-22.
Guest Editor, “Introduction,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. XXXI, Nos. 12 (June 1996), pp. 1-4.
Guest Editor, “Incomplete Metamorphic Democracy as a Conceptual Framework in the
Analysis of African Politics: An Exploratory Investigation,” Journal of Asian and African
Studies, Vol. XXXI, Nos. 1-2 (June 1996), pp. 5-20.
“The Military, Civil Society and the Issue of Democratic Governance: Toward Nigeria’s
Fourth Republic,” Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. XI, fasc. 2 (December 1995),
pp. 206-220.
“The Allurement of Ethnonationalism in Nigerian Politics: The Contemporary Debate,”
Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 3-4 (July-October 1994), pp.
159-171.
“Democracy, the Two-party System and the Transition Imbroglio in the March toward
Nigeria’s Third Republic 1985-1992,” Scandinavian Journal of Development
Alternatives, Vol. 13, No. 1&2 (March and June 1994), pp. 205-220.
“Nigeria: The Quest for Economic Revitalization,” IN DEPTH: A Journal for Values and
Public Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 91-107.
“In Search of Political Stability and Survival: Toward Nigeria’s Third Republic,”
Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives, Vol. XI, No. 2&3 (SeptemberDecember, 1992), p. 5-28.
“National Integration Attempts in Nigerian Politics 1979-1984,” Canadian Review of
Studies in Nationalism, Vol. XVII, No. 1-2 (1990), pp. 157-175.
BOOK REVIEWS
Ogechi Emmanuel Anyanwu, “The Politics of Access: University Education and Nationbuilding in Nigeria, 1948-2000,” African and Asian Studies (Fall 2012)
Mabrok al-Werfalli, “Political Alienation in Libya: Assessing Citizens’ Political Attitude
and Behavior,” Africa Today (Fall 2012)
Johnson Makoba, Rethinking Development Strategies in Africa: The Triple Partnership
as an Alternative Approach—A Case of Uganda, Africa Today, Vol. 58, No. 4 (June
2012) (JSTOR)
Lovise Aalen, The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, Power and Mobilization
under Ethnic Federalism, African and Asian Studies, Vol. 11 (2012): 250-255
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Daniel Branch, Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011, African and Asian
Studies, Vol. 11 (2012): 255-259
Neil Stammers, Human Rights and Social Movements, Africa Today, Vol. 58, No. 2
(Winter 2012): 154-156 (reviewed with Melody Pineda, a graduate student). (JSTOR)
Gail M. Gerhart and Clive L. Glaser, From Protest to Challenge, Vol. 6: A Documentary
History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990, Challenge and Victory 19801990, Africa Today, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Spring 2011): 100-104 (archived in JSTOR)
Olukunle Ojeleye, The Politics of Post-War Demobilization and Reintegration in Nigeria,
Africa Today, Vol.57, No. 4 (Summer 2011): 120-122 (JSTOR)
G. N. Uzoigwe, Visions of Nationhood: Prelude to the Nigerian Civil War, 1960-1967,
Africa Today, Vol. 58, No. 1 (2011): 129-133 (reviewed with a Bryan B. Darden (a
graduate student) (JSTOR)
Michael Goodhart (ed.), Human Rights: Politics and Practice, African and African
Studies, Vol. 9, 4 (2010): 483-488. Book reviewed with Michael Georger (a graduate
student)
Muiu wa Muiu, The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and the Late Nationalism in South
Africa, Africa Today, Vol. 56, No. 1 (2009): 111-113. (JSTOR)
Toyin Falola and Matthew Heaton, A History of Nigeria, Africa Today, Vol. 55, No. 4
(2009): 122-128 (Review Essay) (JSTOR)
Bonny Ibhawoh, Imperialism and Human Rights: Colonial Discourses of Rights and
Liberties in African History, African and Asian Studies, Vol. 7, Nos. 2-3 (2008): 309313.
Book reviewed with Sambudda Ghatak (a graduate student).
John M. Mbaku, Corruption in Africa: Causes, Consequences, and Cleanups, African
and Asian Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2008): 125-130.
Santosh G. Saha (ed.), Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict, African and Asian
Studies, Vol. 5, Nos. 3-4 (2007), pp. 399-405; and Journal of Third World Studies, Vol.
XXIV, No. 1 (Spring 2007): 313-318.
Colin M. Waugh, Paul Kigame and Rwanda: Power, Genocide and the Rwandan
Patriotic Front, Journal of Third World Studies (Fall 2006), pp. 227-231. Book reviewed
with Lara Crook (a graduate student).
Ed Cairns and Micheal D. Roe (eds.), The Role of Minorities in Ethnic Conflict, Journal
of Third World Studies, XXII, No. 1 (2005): 330-334. Book reviewed with Carl
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McMahan (a graduate student).
Jimmy Kandeh, Coups from Below: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa,
Review of African Political Economy, Nos. 104/5, Vol. 32 (2005): 489-493. Book
reviewed with Autumn Scarbrough (a graduate student).
John M. Mbaku and Julius O. Ihonvbere (eds.), The Transition to Democratic
Governance in
Africa: The Continuing Struggle, Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 2
(2004): 216-220.
Rotimi T. Suberu, Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nigeria, Journal of Third World
Studies, Vol. XXI, No. 1 (2004): 296-300.
Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic
Hatred and Global Instability, African and Asian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3-4 (2004): 323329. Book reviewed with Caroline R. Linderman (a graduate student).
John M. Mbaku and Julius O. Ihonvbere (eds.), The Transition to Democratic
Governance in
Africa: The Continuing Struggle, Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 30, No. 98
(2003): 692-694.
John M. Mbaku and Julius O. Ihonvbere (eds.), The Transition to Democratic
Governance in
Africa: The Continuing Struggle, Asian and African Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2003): 350355.
Kieh, Jr., Ida Mukenge (eds.), Zones of Conflict in Africa: Theories and Cases, African
and Asian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2002): 231-236.
55. Joao M. Cabrita, Mozambique: The Tortuous Road to Democracy, Terrorism and
Political
Violence, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Summer 2002): 147-148.
56. Kelechi A. Kalu, Economic Development and Nigerian Foreign Policy and Ufot B.
Inamete,
Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Nigeria, African Studies Review, Vol. 45, No.3
(December 2002): 143-145.
Toyin Falola, The History of Nigeria, Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2
(Fall 2001): 274-276.
Paris Yeros, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa: Constructivist Reflections and
Contemporary Politics in Africa, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (March
2000): 382-383.
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Jean-German Gross, Democratization in Late Twentieth Century Africa: Coping
with Uncertainty, Journal of Third World Studies, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Spring 2000):
238-241.
Paris Yeros, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Africa: Constructivist Reflections and
Contemporary Politics in Africa, African Studies Review, Vol. 42. No. 3 (December
1999): 254-256.
George B. N. Ayittey, Africa in Chaos, International Journal of Comparative Sociology,
Vol.
XL. No. 4 (November 1999): 478-480.
George B. N. Ayittey, Africa in Chaos, Africa Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 2 (1999):144-147.
Toyin Falola, Development Planning and Decolonization in Nigeria, Journal of Third
World
Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring 1999): 240-243.
Michael Willis, The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History, Journal of
Political Science, Vol. XXVI, (1998): 103-106.
John M. Mbaku, Institutions and Reform in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective, The
Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Spring 1998): 99-10
Senyo B-S K. Adjibolosoo, The Human Factor in Developing Africa, Journal of Third
World Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Fall 1996): 247-253.
John A. Wiseman, Democracy in Black Africa: Survival and Revival, Africa Today, Vol.
37, No. 3 (1990 3rd Quarter): 45-47. (JSTOR)
PROCEEDING: Political Integration and Contemporary Discourse on Continental
Unification in Africa, Global Awareness Society International, Jagiellonian University,
Krakow, Poland, 2011.