1. Abu Bakarr Bah
  2. Publications

Publications

Books and Monograph

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Nikolas Emmanuel. International Statebuilding in West Africa: Civil Wars and New Humanitarianism in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire (Indiana University Press, 2024).  Web link (thanks to the Andrew Mellon Foundation, it is now  Open Access).
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr (editor). Glocalized Security: Domestic and External Issues in International Security (Indiana University Press, 2025).  Web link
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr (editor). African States: Domestic and External Security Challenges (SUNY Press, 2025).  Web link
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr (editor). African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections (Ohio University Press, 2024).  Web link
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr (editor). Post-Conflict Institutional Design: Peacebuilding and Democracy in Africa. London: Zed Books/Bloomsbury Press, 2020.  Web link
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr (editor). International Security and Peacebuilding: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.  Web link
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.  Web link
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Ethnic Conflicts and Management Strategies in Bulgaria, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.” Programme on Ethnic and Federal Studies Monograph New Series, no. 3. Ibadan, Nigeria: John Archers Publishers, 2003.  Web link

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Sirojuddin Arif. “Digitalized Electoral Democracy, Subversive Politics, and Islam: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Sociology 23, no. (2024): 547-582.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Ibrahim Bangura. "Landholding and the Creation of Lumpen Tenants in Freetown: Youth Economic Survival and Patrimonialism in Postwar Sierra Leone." Critical Sociology 49, no. 7-8 (2023): 1289-1305.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, and Margaret Nasambu Barasa. “Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya.” Critical Sociology, 49, 2 (2023): 217–232.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr; Emmanuel, Nikolas. “Migration Cooperation between Africa and Europe: Understanding the Role of International Incentives.” In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press., 2022. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.735
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Nikolas Emmanuel. “Positive Peace and the Methodology of Costing Peacebuilding Needs: The Case of Burundi.” Administrative Theory & Praxis, 43, no. 3 (2020): 299–318. [First author]
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. "People-Centered Liberalism: An Alternative Approach to International State-Building in Sierra Leone and Liberia." Critical Sociology 43, no. 7-8 (2017): 989-1007. [Lead article]
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “Civil Non-State Actors in Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding in West Africa.” Journal of International Peacekeeping 17, no. 3-4 (2013): 313-336.
    [Translated into Spanish at Campos en Ciencias Sociales based at Universidad Santo Tomas in Colombia (vol. 8, #1, 2020)].
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “The Contours of New Humanitarianism: War and Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone.” Africa Today 60, no. 1 (2013): 3-26. [Lead article]
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “State Decay: A Conceptual Frame for Failing and Failed States in West Africa.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 25, no. 1-3 (2012): 71-89.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “State Decay and Civil War: A Discourse on Power in Sierra Leone.” Critical Sociology 37, no. 2 (2011): 199-216.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Democracy and Civil War: Citizenship and Peacemaking in Côte d’Ivoire.” African Affairs 109, no. 437 (2010): 597-615.
    [Translated into Spanish at Campos en Ciencias Sociales based at Universidad Santo Tomas in Colombia (vol. 8, #2, 2020)].
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “Racial Profiling and the War on Terror: Changing Trends and Perspectives.” Ethnic Studies Review 29, no. 1 (2006): 76-100.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Reconciling Ethnic and National Identities in a Divided Society: The Nigerian Dilemma of Nation-State Building.” Democracy & Development: Journal of West African Affairs 4, no. 2 (Harmattan Edition 2004): 27-43.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Approaches to Nation Building in Post Colonial Nigeria.” Journal of Political and Military Sociology (renamed Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review) 32, no. 1 (Summer 2004): 45-60.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Changing World Order and the Future of Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas 21, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 3-12.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Women in Present-day West African Societies.” Annuaire de L’Universite de Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski,” Faculte de Philisophie, Livre—Sociologie 87 (1995): 111-128; (in Bulgarian language).

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “Contemporary Nationalisms and Conceptions of National Security: Military Power and the Reshaping of International Security.” In Abu Bakarr Bah (editor), Glocalized Security: Domestic and External Issues in International Security. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2025.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Kassandra Gonzalez. “Domestic and External Militarization under Democratic Governance: The Case of Sierra Leone.” In Abu Bakarr Bah (editor). African States: Domestic and External Security Challenges. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2025.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Nikolas Emmanuel. “African Realities and Knowledge Production: Conceptions of Civil Wars, International Interventions, and State Building.” In Abu Bakarr Bah (editor), African Security: Local Issues and Global Connections. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2024.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr. “African Agency in New Humanitarianism and Responsible Governance,” in International Security and Peacebuilding: Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, pp. 148 – 169, edited by Abu Bakarr Bah, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Fredrick Ogenga. “Institutional Design, Democracy, and Peacebuilding in Africa” in Post-Conflict Institutional Designs in Africa, edited by Abu Bakarr Bah London: Zed Books/University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Policy Reports and Public Commentaries

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “The Ukraine War: An African Perspective into International Security.” In Annual Report on African Geopolitics, edited by Abdelhak Bassou, pp: 95-101. Rabat, Morocco: Policy Center for the New South, 2023.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “The Ukraine War and Strategic Shifts in International Relations.” Leiden Security and­ Global Affairs Blog, June 29, 2023.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “The Banality of Oppression, Multipolarity and the Ukraine War.” The Elephant, November 11, 2022.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “The Dialectics of Loyalty in African Politics: Rule of Law and Corruption.” Democracy in Africa blog June 24, 2022.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr and Nikolas Emmanuel “Methodologies to Cost Peacebuilding Needs” report prepared for the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office and PeaceNexus Foundation, 2017.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “Seeking Democracy in Côte d’Ivoire: Overcoming Exclusionary Citizenship”, Accounting for Change in Diverse Societies report prepared for the Global Centre for Pluralism, November 2017. https://www.pluralism.ca/press-release/seeking-democracy-cote-divoire-overcoming-exclusionary-citizenship

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “Positive Peace in Theory and Practice: The Case of Cote d’Ivoire” report prepared for Humanity United and Institute for Economic and Peace, October 2015.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “Role of Non-State Actors in Peacekeeping Efforts in West Africa” report submitted to the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, November 2012.

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, “Republic of Guinea: An analysis of current drivers of change” report prepared for Norwegian Peacebuilding Center (NOREF), Oct. 2010.

Non-Refereed Academic Publications and Book Reviews

  • Bah, Abu Bakarr, Mark Davidheiser, Niklas Hultin, and Tricia Redeker Hepner. “Introduction to ACPR: African Conflict in Global Perspective.” African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 1, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 1-7.
  • Bah, Abu Bakarr “Creole,” in Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society, edited by Richard T. Shaefer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (2008).
  • Bah, Abu. “How Ethical is it to Purchase or Sell Weapons in Either Cash or Credit Instead of Financing Social and Economic Development?” in Science, Technology, and Ethical Priorities, edited by Jennifer Seltzer, 172-175. Washington: Student Pugwash USA, 1997.
  • Book review of Nation Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa, by Dominic Thomas, in Journal of Military and Political Sociology 32, no. 1 (2004): 165-166.
  • Book review of The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire, 1880 -1995, by Thomas Bassett. Journal of International Labor and Working Class History 63 (2003): 173-175.

Contact

Abu Bakarr Bah, Ph.D.

Department of Sociology
Zulauf 807

abah@niu.edu