Education:
Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1970

Teaching Specializations:
· Comparative Politics
· International Relations

Research Interests:
· Africa
· Democratization
· Political development

Selected Publications:
· Nation Building in Kenya (Northwestern)
· The Ethiopian Transformation: The Quest for the Post Imperial State (Westview)
· Civil Society and the State in Africa (Lynne Rienner)
· Africa in World Politics (ed.) (3rd. ed) (Westview)
· The Military in African Politics (ed.) (Praeger)
· Responsible Government: The Global Challenge (ed.) (University Press of America)
· Rural Development in Ethiopian (ed.) (Michigan State University)