John F. Clark is a professor and former Fulbright scholar who specializes in Central African Socio-Political and Economic Dynamics. He has conducted research in Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other Central African states, and has been recognized as one of the world's leading researchers and experts on Central Africa. Clark's signature scholastic style is indicative of the time he spent in Central and Sub-Saharan Africa. He was chair of the Department of International Relations at Florida International University from 2002–2007, and has lectured in Kampala, Uganda at Makerere University. Clark graduated from Georgia Southern University and the University of Virginia. His dissertation is titled Superpower Intervention in Several Conflicts of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Understanding Democratic Survival and Democratic Failure in Africa: Insights from the Divergent Democratic Experiments in Benin and Congo.' Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no.3 : 552-582.
Resource Revenues and Political Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Congo Republic in Comparative Perspective. Afrika Spectrum 37, no.1 : 25-41.
The Neo-Colonial Context of the Democratic Experiment of Congo-Brazzaville.African Affairs 101, no.403 : 171-192. Reprinted as "Le context néocolonial de l'expérience démocratique au Congo-Brazzaville," in Patrick Quantin, ed., L'Afrique politique 2002, Paris: Karthala, 2003.
UEMOA and ECOWAS: Conflict or Cooperation in the Era of the 'New Regionalism. Global Development Studies 2, nos. 3-4 : 167-195..
The Clinton Administration and Africa: White House Involvement and the Foreign Affairs Bureaucracies in Clinton's Africa Policy. Issue 26, no.2 : 8-13.
Foreign Intervention in the Civil War of the Congo Republic. Issue 26, no.1 : 31-36.
Democracy Dismantled in the Congo Republic. Current History 97, no. 619 : 234- 237.
Petro-Politics in the Republic of Congo. Journal of Democracy 8, no. 3 : 62-76.
Reform or Democratization for Africa? Troubling Constraints and Partial Solutions, Transafrica Forum 10, no. 1 : 3-19.
Ethno-Regionalism in Zaire: Roots, Manifestations and Meaning, Journal of African Policy Studies 1, no. 2 : 23-45.
Evaluating the Efficacy of Foreign Policy: An Essay on the Complexity of Foreign Policy Goals,Southeastern Political Review 23, no. 4 : 559-79.
Elections, Leadership and Democracy in Congo,Africa Today 41, no.3, : 41-60.
The Constraints on Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case for Limited Democracy,SAIS Review XIV, no.2 : 91-108. Reprinted in Lyn Graybill and Kenneth W. Thompson, eds., Africa's Second Wave of Freedom, Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1998: 43-64.
The National Conference as an Instrument of Democratization in Francophone Africa, Journal of Third World Studies 11, no.1 : 304-335.
Collective Interventions After the Cold War: Lessons from the U.N. Mission to the Congo, 1960–1964, Journal of Political Science 12 : 93-115.
Socio-Political Change in the Republic of the Congo: Political Dilemmas of Economic Reform, Journal of Third World Studies 10, no.1 : 52-77.
