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  1. Stabilizing State Fragility in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia

    Article • Peace Review, October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  2. Kenya police brutality – it will take more than laws and public anger to change behaviour

    Article • June 2025, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  3. State collapse, peace enforcement and the responsibility to protect in Somalia

    Article • January 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  4. Kenya has moved people out of the country illegally: what the law says about extraordinary rendition

    Article • December 2024, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  5. Violence at the Kenya-Ethiopia border: what’s driving insecurity in the region

    Article • September 2024, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  6. Kenya’s mission to Haiti: how the 1,000-strong force is preparing for planned intervention

    Article • April 2024, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  7. Securitisation and spaces of terrorism in Kenya’s National Police Service counterterrorism discourse

    Article • Critical Studies on Terrorism, January 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi, Dr Catherine Waithera Mwangi

  8. Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation, and governance in fragile states

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  9. Kenya’s spy chief leads the national intelligence service – what the job is all about

    Article • June 2023, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  10. Judicial activism, populism and counterterrorism legislation in Kenya: coalition for Reform and democracy (CORD) & 2 others v Republic of Kenya & 10; others [2015]

    Article • February 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  11. Failed States

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  12. Al-Shabaab and the Regional Security Dilemma

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  13. Kenya violence: 5 key drivers of the decades-long conflict in the north and what to do about them

    Article • November 2022, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  14. Kenya’s parliament and senate: how will they work together if there’s no clear majority?

    Article • August 2022, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  15. Why Kenya’s experiment in giving local governments the power to manage food security hasn’t worked

    Article • July 2022, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  16. Five reasons why militants are targeting Kenya’s Lamu county

    Article • February 2022, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  17. Kenya terror alerts: political scientist unpacks the intelligence behind them

    Article • February 2022, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  18. Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches to Coalitions in Parliamentary Democracies

    Article • December 2021, AFRICAN SUN MeDIA

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  19. The securitization of civil society organizations, Islamism, and counter-terrorism in Kenya

    Article • September 2021, Manchester University Press

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  20. Why Kenya is on thin ice in its justification for sending Somali refugees back home

    Article • April 2021, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  21. Al-Shabaab

    Article • March 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  22. Judicial activism, populism and counterterrorism legislation in Kenya: coalition for Reform and democracy (CORD) & 2 others v Republic of Kenya & 10; others [2015]

    Article • The International Journal of Human Rights, March 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  23. Hydropolitics versus Human Security: Implications of South Africa's Appropriation of Lesotho's Highlands Water

    Article • Daedalus, January 2021, The MIT Press

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  24. Mozambique’s Foreign Policy: From Ideological Conflict to Pragmatic Cooperation

    Article • September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  25. Securitisation, non-refoulement and the rule of law in Kenya: the case of Somali refugees

    Article • May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  26. Failed States

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  27. How Kenya is managing security 20 years after the Nairobi blast

    Article • August 2018, The Conversation

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  28. The “Somalinisation” of terrorism and counterterrorism in Kenya: the case of refoulement

    Article • Critical Studies on Terrorism, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  29. Securitisation, non-refoulement and the rule of law in Kenya: the case of Somali refugees

    Article • The International Journal of Human Rights, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  30. Mozambique's Foreign Policy: From Ideological Conflict to Pragmatic Cooperation

    Article • February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  31. Statelessness, ungoverned spaces and security in Kenya

    Article • August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  32. The Dilemma of Kenya's New Counterterrorism and Asymmetric Warfare

    Article • Peace Review, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  33. Alex de Waal, The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015, 267pp. £55.00 (hbk).

    Article • Nations and Nationalism, June 2017, Wiley

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  34. Book Review: Kurt Mills, International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and PalliateInternational Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and Palliate by MillsKurt. Phil...

    Article • Political Studies Review, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  35. Neo-elitism and counterterrorism operations in Kenya

    Article • African Security Review, January 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  36. Corruption, Human Rights Violation and Counterterrorism Policies in Kenya

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  37. Jubaland: Somalia’s new security dilemma and state-building efforts

    Article • Africa Review, November 2016, Brill

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  38. State Collapse, Counter-Insurgency and Security Governance in Somalia

    Article • March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  39. Conflict and Security in Africa

    Article • Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  40. Continuity and Change in Kenya’s Defense and Foreign Policies: The Impact of the New Security Dilemma

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  41. State Fragility and Electoral Reforms in Lesotho

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  42. Don't be vague bash the Hague: votes and legitimacy in Kenya's 2013 elections

    Article • Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  43. State collapse, peace enforcement and the responsibility to protect in Somalia

    Article • The International Journal of Human Rights, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  44. Regime Dynamics and Democratic Consolidation in Lesotho

    Article • January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  45. State Collapse,Al-Shabaab, Islamism, and Legitimacy in Somalia

    Article • Politics Religion & Ideology, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  46. Religious Fundamentalism, Constitution-making and Democracy in Kenya: The Kadhis Courts Debate

    Article • The Round Table, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  47. The Union of Islamic Courts and security governance in Somalia

    Article • African Security Review, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  48. Environmental change and human security in Lesotho: The role of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project in environmental degradation

    Article • African Security Review, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  49. Political corruption, party financing and democracy in Kenya

    Article • The Journal of Modern African Studies, May 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  50. Hydropolitics, Ecocide and Human Security in Lesotho: A Case Study of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project *

    Article • Journal of Southern African Studies, March 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

  51. Kenya: Conflict in the ‘Badlands’: The Turbi massacre in Marsabit district

    Article • Review of African Political Economy, March 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Adjunct Associate Professor Oscar Gakuo Mwangi