Governing Africa’s Changing Societies:

Ellen M. Lust is professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg and founding director of the Program on Governance and Local Development at both Yale University and the University of Gothenburg. <!—[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]—><!—[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]—><!—[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]—>Her publications include Structuring Conflict in the Arab World, the coedited Political Participation in the Middle East, and the edited textbook The Middle East. Stephen N. Ndegwa is adviser on fragile and conflict-affected situations at the World Bank. He is author of The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in Africa and coeditor of A Decade of Democracy in Africa.