Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison (Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina)

Submitted: Mon, 30 August 2010


Adrien M. Ratsimbaharison, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Social Science and Criminal Justice
Benedict College
Columbia, South Carolina 29204  USA

phone:  (803) 705-4315
e-mail: ratsimbaharisona@benedict.edu 
or ratsimb@gmail.com



Teaching and research interests:
Economic development, democratization and armed conflicts in Africa
United Nations System


Selected publications:

2007    "Women's health in Post-Cold-War Africa:  The dramatic effects of 
poverty, HIV/AIDS and armed conflicts," Asian Women, 23, 4 (Winter 2007): 
7-20.

2005   With Richard R. Marcus
"Political parties in Madagascar: neopatrimonial tools or democratic 
instruments?"  Party politics 11, 4 (July 2005): 495-512.

2003  The failure of the United Nations development programs for Africa. 
Lanham, MD: University Press of America.