Moses Khisa

Bio

Associate Professor of Political Science (and Africana Studies), a Research Associate with the Centre for Basic Research in Kampala, Uganda and weekly columnist for Uganda’s Daily Monitor newspaper.

Website: moseskhisa.com

Teaching and Research Interests

Comparative Politics and International Political Economy with a focus on Africa.

Current Projects

• African Political Thought and Civil Military Relations.
• Coalition Politics and Institutional Transformation in Africa.
• Encyclopedia of African Politics.

Publications

Books:

• Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda (Edited)
• Rethinking Civil-Military Relations in Africa (Co-edited with Christopher Day)
• Africa’s New Global Politics (Monograph with Rita Kiki Edozie)

Peer Reviewed Articles:

• “Rwanda-Uganda Relations: Elites’ Attitudes and Perceptions in Interstate Relations,” (with Gerald Bareebe) Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 61, no. 2 (2023): 152-176.
• “Militarism and the Politics of Covid-19 Response in Uganda” (with Rwengabo Sabastiano) Armed Forces & Society (2023).
• “Deepening Politics of Fragmentation in Uganda,” African Studies Review, August 2022.
• “Contextualizing the Bobi Wine factor in Uganda’s 2021 Elections,” (with Sam Wilkins & Richard Vokes), African Affairs 120, no. 481 (2021): 629-643.
• “Politicization and Professionalization: The Progress and Perils of Civil-Military Transformation in Museveni’s Uganda,” Civil Wars 22, no. 2-3 (2020): 289-312.
• “Reconceptualizing Civil-Military Relations in Africa” (with Christopher Day), Civil Wars 22, no. 2-3 (2020): 174-197.
• “Revisiting the Civil-Military Conundrum in Africa” (with Christopher Day and William Reno), Civil Wars 22, no. 2-3 (2020): 156-173.
• “Shrinking Democratic Space? Crisis of Consensus and Contentious Politics in Uganda,” Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 57, no. 3 (2019): 343-362..
• “Politics of Exclusion and Institutional Transformation in Ethiopia,” Third World Quarterly 40, no. 3 (2019): 542-557.
• “Whose Africa is Rising,” Review of African Political Economy 46, no. 160 (2019): 304-316.
• “Managing Elite Defection in Uganda,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 10, no. 4 (2016): 729-748.
• “Political Uncertainty and Its Impact of Social Service Delivery in Uganda,” Africa Development 40, no. 4 (2015).
• “The Making of the Informal State in Uganda,” African Development 38, no. 1&2 (2013): 191-226.

Book Chapters & Book Reviews

Several… available via Google Scholar.

Area(s) of Expertise

Contemporary Political Development in Africa
Civil Military Relations
Comparative and International Political Economy
Democratization and Authoritarianism