Andreas Mehler (Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg, Germany)

Submitted: Fri, 11 August 2006


Dr. Andreas Mehler
Director
Institut für Afrika-Kunde, Hamburg
German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Mail adress: 
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 
Hamburg
Germany

phone:  +49.40.42825.523
fax:    +49.40.42825.511 
e-mail: mehler@giga-hamburg.de

Web site: http://www.giga-hamburg.de/

Research, consulting and teaching: 
Political science: causes of conflict and conflict prevention ;
democratization processes and elections in Francophone Africa; political 
parties; ethnicity ; special interest in Cameroon, Central African 
Republic, Côte d'Ivoire.


Select Bibliography

Collective works

Matthias Basedau and Andreas Mehler (eds.): Resource Politics in Africa
(Hamburg African Studies; 14), Hamburg: IAK, 2005.

Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber, and Klaas van Walraven (eds.): Africa
Yearbook. Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara, Leiden: 
Brill, 2005.

Tobias Debiel, Andreas Mehler, Stephan Klingebiel and Ulrich Schneckener:
Between Ignorance and Intervention. Strategies and Dilemmas of External
Actors in Fragile States (SEF Policy Paper 23), Bonn, 2005.

Ulf Engel, Gero Erdmann, Andreas Mehler (eds.): Tanzania Revisited:
Political Stability, Aid Dependency and Development Constraints (Hamburg
African Studies; 10), Hamburg, 2000.

Peace-Building and Conflict Prevention in Developing Countries. A Practical
Guide, Ebenhausen/Brussels, 1999 (with Michael Lund et al.).

Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management in Technical Cooperation. An
Overview of the National and International Debate, Wiesbaden, 2000 (with
Claude Ribaux).

"Closing the gap" between early warning and early action: Applying
political science to violent conflict in Africa (University of Leipzig
Papers on Africa; 44), Leipzig, 2000 (with Ulf Engel).


Articles

"Area Studies, the Analysis of Conflicts and the Evaluation of Preventive
Practice in Africa," in Patrick Chabal, Ulf Engel, and Anna-Maria Gentili
(Hrsg.): Is Violence Inevitable in Africa? Theories of Conflict and
Approaches to Conflict Prevention, Leiden: Brill 2005, 99-123.

"The hidden costs of power-sharing: Reproducing insurgent violence in 
Africa," African Affairs; 104 (2005) 416: 375-398 (with Denis Tull).

"Major flaws in conflict prevention policies towards Africa. The 
conceptional deficits of international actors? approaches and how to 
overcome them," German Overseas Institute, Hamburg, 2005.

"The shaky foundations, adverse circumstances and limited achievements of
democratic transition in the Central African Republic," in Leo 
Villalon and Peter VonDoepp (eds.): The Fate of Africa's Democratic 
Experiments: Elites and Institutions. Bloomington: Indiana University 
Press 2005, 126-152.

"African Studies and Africa policy?: a precarious relationship,"
Development and Cooperation, 31 (2004) 1, S.24-27 (with Ulf Engel).

"Oligopolies of violence in Africa south of the Sahara," Nord-Süd 
aktuell 18 (2004) 3, S. 539-548.

"African Resources and War," Internationale Politik Transatlantic
Edition, 4 (2003) 3, 95-100 (with Matthias Basedau).

Decentralization, Division of Power and Crisis Prevention: A Theoretical
Exploration with Reference to Africa, in: Tobias Debiel/Axel Klein.
(eds.): Fragile Peace. State Failure, Violence and Development in Crisis
Regions, London etc. 2002, 72-85.

Structural Stability: Meaning, scope and use in an African context, in:
Afrika Spectrum, 37 (2002) 1, 5-23.

"Cameroon," in Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich, and Bernhard Thibaut 
(eds.): Elections in Africa. A Data Handbook, Oxford 1999, 167-188.

Central African Republic, in: Dieter Nohlen/Michael Krennerich/Bernhard
Thibaut (eds.): Elections in Africa. A Data Handbook, Oxford 1999, 
205-220.

"La démocratie n'est pas un vaccin: politique formelle et 
informelle en République Centrafricaine," in: CEAN: L'Afrique 
politique 2000, Talence 2000 (with Vincent da Cruz).

"Cameroun and the politics of patronage," in David Birmingham and Phyllis 
M. Martin (eds.): History of Central Africa. The contemporary years since 
1960, London/New York 1998, 43-65.

"Cameroun: une transition qui n'a pas eu lieu," Jean-Pascal
Daloz/Patrick Quantin (eds.): Transitions démocratiques africaines,
Paris 1997, 95-138.