Robert L Rotberg

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

Cecil Rhodes was an imposing figure, tall, robust-looking, with a leonine head, a man so charismatic that one contemporary claimed that "belief in Rhodes was a substitute for religion." But he was certainly a man of contradictions. He was a dreamy idealist whose favorite book was The Meditations of ...

Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference in the Developing World

Accomplished political leaders have a clear strategy for turning political visions into reality. Through well-honed analytical, political, and emotional intelligence, leaders chart paths to promising futures that include economic growth, material prosperity, and human well-being. Alas, such leaders ...

Africa Emerges: Consummate Challenges, Abundant Opportunities

Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled ‘dark continent.’ Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and political progress. The new Africa has begun to banish the miseries of the past, and appears ready to play an important role in world affairs. Thanks to shi...

The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars (Studies in Interdisciplinary History)

Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major war is difficult to conceive of, since it would presumably be the last such conflict, and yet it is n...

State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror

The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failure had a primarily humanitarian dimension, with fewer implications for peace and security. Now nation-states that fail, or may do so, pose d...

Truth V. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions

The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of cr...

Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)

"An exciting and wide-ranging exploration of the myths and narratives that lie behind the unresolved Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts.... Anyone dedicated to the fullest possible understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will want to read this volume cover to cover." —Neil Capl...

China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence

Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In the mid-twentieth century, Maoist China funded and educated sub-Saharan African anticolonial liberation mo...

Robert I. Rotberg

Robert I. Rotberg is President of the World Peace Foundation. He was Professor of Political Science and History, MIT; Academic Vice President of Tufts University; and President ...

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

The Founder: Cecil Rhodes And the Pursuit of Power

The Family in History; Interdisciplinary Essays

Israeli And Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix

Health and Disease in Human History: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader

Social Mobility and Modernization: A Journal of Interdisciplinary History Reader

Population History and the Family

Politics and Political Change