Comparative Politics
International Relations
Sub-Saharan Africa
Factors Affecting the Rise and Fall of European Overseas Empires

• Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Distinctive Contributions to Undergraduate Education (given at Commencement ceremonies, June, 2002)
• Richard W. Lyman Award, given by the Stanford Alumni Association for volunteer service to the University's alumni/ae; 2002
• Principal Investigator, course development project on "The World Outside the West," funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984-85. (Six Stanford faculty members developed a two-quarter course sequence introducing undergraduates to the comparative study of non-Western societies.)
• Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1976-77 and 1992-93
• Ford Foundation, Faculty Research Fellowship in Political Science, 1972-73
• Fellow of the University, 1970-72, 1973-74
• Doctoral thesis received Chase Prize (best Harvard dissertation contributing to world peace, 1965-66)
• Foreign Area Fellowship Program, grant for dissertation research in Nigeria, 1963-65 Danforth Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• Noble Foundation Leadership Grant, for study at Oxford University, 1959-61
• Phi Beta Kappa Harvard College, 1959

Editorial Board, African Studies Review , 1982-88

Testified before Advisory Commission to the Secretary of State on U.S. Policy toward South Africa, 1986

President, Stanford Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 1993-96

Undergraduate Courses

• Political Change in Tropical Africa
• Southern Africa: Race, Class, and Political Change
• Colonialism and Nationalism in the Third World
• The World Outside the West in the Age of European Imperialism
• Comparing Political Systems
• Power, Policy, and Industrial Development
• Controversies over Foreign Aid
• Decolonization in Asia and Africa, 1940-80
• Education and Politics in Developing Countries
• The Evaluation of Government Performance
• International Dependence
• Multinational Corporations in the Third World
• The Politics of Development Planning

Graduate Courses

• Comparative Political Analysis
• Theories of European Imperialism
• External Influences on African Politics
• The Politics of Rural Development in Africa African Identities

Books

The Political Dilemma of Popular Education:  An African Case .  (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969).

The Dynamics of Global Dominance:  European Overseas Empires, 1415-1980 (Yale University Press, 2000)

Articles

"Morality and Armageddon," Public Policy, XIII (1964), pp. 3-35.

"Nigeria Creates a New Region," Africa Report (March, 1964), pp. 8-10.

"Education and Politics in Developing Countries" (with Trevor Coombe), Harvard Education Review (Sept., 1965), pp, 287-302.

"Bureaucracy and Economic Development in Africa," The African Review, 1:1 (March, 1971), pp. 93-107.

"The Major Policy Positions of the Reagan Administration: Implications for U.S.-South African Relations," International Affairs Bulletin (South African Institute of International Affairs), 5:2 (1981), pp. 18-44.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

"Church and State in Nigerian Education," in David Scanlon, ed., Church, State and Education in Africa (New York: Columbia Teachers College Press, 1966), pp. 197-244.

"Political and Administrative Factors Affecting Economic Development Strategies in Independent African States," University of East Africa, Social Sciences Council Conference, Political Science Papers (1969), pp. 1-22.

"Teachers in Politics: the Southern Nigerian Case," in Joseph Fischer, ed., The Social Sciences and the Comparative Study of Educational Systems (Scranton, Pa.: International, 1971), pp. 409-29.

"Assessing Human Rights Violations: A Comparison of the Contemporary South African and Ugandan Regimes," in Lee McDonald, ed., Human Rights and Educational Responsibility (North Hollywood: Clio Books/Western Periodicals, 1979), pp. 179-214.

"Decolonization in Southern Africa: Variations on a Theme," in Yan Yansane, ed., Decolonization and Dependency:  Problems of Development of African Societies (Westport, Ct.: Greenwood Press, 1980), pp. 196-228.

"Reflections on a Continent in Crisis," in Gerald Bender, James Coleman, and Richard Sklar, eds., African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Policy  (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1985), pp. 321-39.

"Dominant-Subordinate Relationships: How shall we Define them? How do we Compare them?," in Jan Triska, ed., Dominant Powers and Subordinate States (Durham: Duke University Press, 1986), pp. 103-23.

"European Colonialism and Post-Colonial Crises in Africa," in Harvey Glickman, ed., The Crisis and Challenge of African Development (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1988), pp. 3-23.

"Bureaucratic Growth and Economic Stagnation in Sub-Saharan Africa," in Stephen K. Commins, ed., Africa's Development Challenges and the World Bank (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1988), pp. 179-214.