Kaleb Demerew

Dr. Kaleb Demerew is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at West Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the comparative political economy of development and conflict, with a regional emphasis on Northeast Africa and the Red Sea. He examines the institutional foundations of state-building and development, as well as external constraints on state agency in Africa and the broader developing world. Dr. Demerew is co-editor of Nile Basin Politics (Edward Elgar), and his work has appeared in The Journal of Institutional Economics, Nations and Nationalism, and Third World Quarterly.He is currently working on two sole-authored books, Violence, Elites, and Institutions (SUNY Press) and Economic Freedom and Self-Governance in Africa (Routledge). His research has been supported by organizations including the Institute for Humane Studies, the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, and the Mercatus Center.