Ken Menkhaus

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ken Menkhaus is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Menkhaus has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 33 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Ken Menkhaus's work include Political Conflict and Governance (21 papers), African history and culture analysis (16 papers) and Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (12 papers). Ken Menkhaus is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (21 papers), African history and culture analysis (16 papers) and Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (12 papers). Ken Menkhaus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Russia. Ken Menkhaus's co-authors include Koen Vlassenroot, Timothy Raeymaekers, Nicolas van de Walle, Jagdish Dua, John Prendergast, Cindy Horst and Laura Hammond and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Foreign Affairs and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

In The Last Decade

Ken Menkhaus

48 papers receiving 928 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Governance without Government in Somalia: Spoilers, State Building, and the Politics of Coping

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Managing Risk in Ungoverned Space: Local and International Actors in Somalia 2016 ·The SAIS review of international affairs ·Ken Menkhaus	4
2	If Mayors Ruled Somalia : Beyond the State-building Impasse 2014 ·KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) ·Ken Menkhaus	1
3	Making sense of resilience in peacebuilding contexts: approaches, applications, implications 2013 ·Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) ·Ken Menkhaus	11
4	No access: Critical bottlenecks in the 2011 Somali famine 2012 ·Global Food Security ·Ken Menkhaus	26
5	Stabilisation and humanitarian access in a collapsed state: the Somali case 2010 ·Disasters ·Ken Menkhaus	37
6	The Crisis in Somalia: Tragedy in Five Acts 2009 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Ken Menkhaus	0
7	Somalia: ‘They Created a Desert and Called it Peace(building)’ 2009 ·Review of African Political Economy ·Ken Menkhaus	27
8	SOMALIA 2009 ·The RUSI Journal ·Ken Menkhaus	7
9	State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises: governance without government? 2008 ·AVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus ·Timothy Raeymaekers, Ken Menkhaus, Koen Vlassenroot	33
10	The rise of a mediated state in northern Kenya: the Wajir story and its implications for state-building 2008 ·AVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus ·Ken Menkhaus	58
11	State and non-state regulation in African protracted crises: governance without government? 2008 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Timothy Raeymaekers, Ken Menkhaus, Koen Vlassenroot	101
12	Arrangements sécuritaires locaux dans les régions somalies de la Corne de l'Afrique 2008 ·Politique africaine ·Ken Menkhaus, (unknown)	4
13	Mediation efforts in Somalia 2007 ·Ken Menkhaus	3
14	The crisis in Somalia: Tragedy in five acts 2007 ·African Affairs ·Ken Menkhaus	102
15	Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism 2005 ·Foreign Affairs ·Nicolas van de Walle, Ken Menkhaus	31
16	Somalia in 2005 : No exit 2005 ·Annales d Ethiopie ·Ken Menkhaus	0
17	Vicious circles and the security development nexus in Somalia 2004 ·Conflict Security and Development ·Ken Menkhaus	45
18	About the author/About The International Institute for Strategic Studies 2004 ·The Adelphi Papers ·Ken Menkhaus	5
19	Quasi-States, Nation-Building, and Terrorist Safe Havens 2003 ·The Journal of Conflict Studies ·Ken Menkhaus	14
20	GETTING OUT VS. GETTING THROUGH: U.S. AND U.N. POLICIES IN SOMALIA 1994 ·Middle East Policy ·Ken Menkhaus	3

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