Hilary Matfess (Yale) and I have recently published a report with West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) offering a comprehensive overview of Boko Haram’s use of suicide bombers.

View a copy of the report here.

 

 

 

Dr. Warner was recently quoted in a CNN article by Robyn Kriel and Briana Duggan, on the potential connections betwen the Isalmic State in Somalia, and the pirates operating off its coast in the Gulf of Aden.

See the article here. 

 

I’ve recently published a book chapter entitled “The African Union and Article 4(h): Understanding Changing Norms of Sovereignty and Intervention in Africa Through an Integrated Levels-of-Analysis Approach,” in Eunice Sahle’s edited collection, Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Development (Palgrave 2017).

An abstract of the piece is below:

The emergence of the African Union (AU) in 2002 was notable for a number of reasons, especially its inclusion of Article 4(h)—which explicitly allows for the AU to intervene in member states’ affairs—in its Constitutive Act. What caused the inclusion of the highly progressive Article 4(h), especially given the states’ historical commitments to a norm of non-intervention? This chapter suggests that to understand the normative shifts leading to the inclusion of Article (h) in the AU’s Constitutive Act, one must employ an explicitly multi-causal, integrated levels-of-analysis approach, taking into account inputs that informed Article 4(h)’s development at the systemic, pan-African, regional, statist, and leadership levels of analysis.

Find a PDF copy in the “Writing” section of this website.

In case you missed it, Peter Volberding (Harvard) and I have published a working paper with Johns Hopkins’ China-Africa Research Initiative (CARI) on how the entrance of Chinese firms into African spaces impacts the African host countries. See the full report here.

Volberding-Warner, China-Africa, Uranium

Though I’m late to the party, I couldn’t recommend this book, “The Future of African Peacekeeping Operations: From Janjaweed to Boko Haram” more highly, especially pieces by Cedric de Coning, Jide Okeke, Walter Lotze, and Thomas Tieku.

Whole book is (oddly) downloadable here:

https://brage.bibsys.no/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/2428902/Future%2Bof%2BAfrican%2BPeace%2BOperations_Full%2Bwith%2Bcover35338.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y#page=54

A colleague recently shared with me this outstanding and comprehensive overview of the tapestry of militant groups in Mali, produced by the always outstanding Jamestown Foundation.

Kudos to Andrew MacGregor.

See the full report here.

I have a new article out in the CTC Sentinel entitled “Sub-Saharan Africa’s Three ‘New’ Islamic State Affiliates,” accessible here.