Robert Rotberg
Robert Rotberg is the Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy Schools Program on Intrastate Conflict and President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation. He was President of Lafayette College and Academic Vice President of Tufts University, and Professor of Political Science at MIT. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Fulbright Research Professor at the Paterson School Carleton and the Balsillie School Waterloo, both international affairs graduate schools in Canada. He has published a number of books on failed states, governance, corruption, African politics, Burma, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, plus books on China in Africa and preventing genocide.
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/ 25 April 2007

A nation in decay

"President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is today’s African poster child for damaging, venal leadership. By 2005, if not well before, he had driven Zimbabwe’s once-high levels of good governance into the ground." Robert Rotberg reports that Zimbabweans are even more impoverished than ever before.