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J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.

J. Peter Pham is Director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C., as well as Vice President of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA). In addition to the study of terrorism and political violence, his research interests lie at the intersection of international relations, international law, political theory, and ethics, with particular concentrations on the implications for United States foreign policy and African states as well as religion and global politics.

            Dr. Pham is the author of over two hundred essays and reviews on a wide variety of subjects in scholarly and opinion journals on both sides of the Atlantic and the author, editor, or translator of over a dozen books. Among his recent publications are Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State (Reed Press, 2004), which has been critically acclaimed by Foreign Affairs, Worldview, Wilson Quarterly, American Foreign Policy Interests, and other scholarly publications, and Child Soldiers, Adult Interests: The Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy (Nova Science Publishers, 2005).

            In addition to serving on the boards of several international and national think tanks and journals, Dr. Pham has testified before the U.S. Congress and conducted briefings or consulted for both Congressional and Executive agencies. He is also a frequent contributor to National Review Online’s military blog, The Tank.

Articles:

• Pirates of Somalia: The Curse of the Failed State
• Enabling Mugabe to Cling On
• Botswana’s Success Sparkles amid African Gloom
• Trouble in Paradise: Mixed Success of Intervention in the Comoros
• Somalia: Going Beyond the Terrorist Designation
• Why AFRICOM Is Critical for Our Security Interests
• The U.S. and Somaliland: A Strategic Guide to Partnership
• Profile in Success: Africa’s Cape Verde
• Sudan Strikes Out in Chad Crisis – At Least for Now
• Khartoum’s Questionable Partners in Beijing
• Abyei: High Stakes in the Sudan
• Tragedy in Kenya Jeopardizes the Future of Democracy in Africa
• Thinking about Terrorism and Other Security Challenges in Africa
• The War on Terror in Africa: Assessment and Prospects for 2008
• Somaliland: On the Road to Independent Statehood?
• Too Few Good Men: The Challenge of ‘Peacekeeping’ in Africa
• Winds of War Blow in Africa: Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Crisis Escalates
• Piracy on the High Seas? Responding to This and Other Maritime Security Challenges in Africa
• Playing with Fire: South Africa’s Dangerous Terrorist Liaisons
• South Sudan: Simmering Below the Surface
• Brewing Border Battle Threatens U.S. Counterterrorism Gains
• Somalia Still Sinking as Eritrea Entertains Enemies
• Milestone in Partnership to Counter Terrorism in the Sahel
• An Inconvenient Flag: Liberia’s Ship Registry in the Age of Global Terrorism
• São Tomé and Príncipe: An African Exception?
• Eritrea: The Horn of Africa’s Rogue Regime J. Peter Pham
• China’s Play for Somalia’s Oil J. Peter Pham, Ph.D
• Selling AFRICOM
• ‘Total Force’ for AFRICOM J. Peter Pham
• Mired in Mogadishu J. Peter Pham
• The Indian Tiger’s African Safari J. Peter Pham
• The Security Challenge of West Africa’s New Drug Depots
• Cabinda: The ‘Forgotten Conflict’ America Can’t Afford to Ignore J. Peter Pham
• Hu’s Selling Guns to Africa J. Peter Pham
• “Beware of Al-Qaeda’s Franchise in Africa J. Peter Pham, Ph. D.
• Nigeria: Flailing State
• Additional Sparks for the Fires in the Horn of Africa
• Building Security by Ending Impunity: The Trial of Charles Taylor
• Smokin’ on Somalia
• Vulnerability of Nigerian Oil Infrastructure Threatens U.S. Interests
• New Fronts Call for New Capacities in Global War on Terror By
• Not Being Had by al-Itihaad
• In Nigeria False Prophets are Real Problems
• West Africa and the Coming Naval Battle in al-Qaeda’s Economic War against America
• The Growth of Militant Islamism in East Africa
• Financing Somalia’s Islamist Warlords
• America’s Somali Policy Still Dangerously Adrift
• China Goes On Safari
• Niger Delta Blues
• Hezbollah’s African Network
• Forgotten Interests: Why Côte d’Ivoire matters
• Al Qaeda moves to Africa
• Sheikh Aweys Won’t Go Away (At Least by Himself)
• “Don’t Feed the Animals”: How to Begin Dealing with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il
• General Hayden, Invest in the Arms Trade

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