Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Picture taken at the U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Event, Maxwell Air Force Base, 2011
Nationality	Nigerian-American
Occupation	Research Professor
Academic background
Alma mater	Atlanta University, Texas Tech University, Yale University

Kalu Ndukwe Kalu is a Nigerian-born American political scientist specializing in comparative institutional development, national security policy, and organizational systems. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and National Security Policy at Auburn University Montgomery; and Docent Professor at the University of Tampere, Finland. He is a Fulbright Scholar, and has been a Research Affiliate at The Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies (Yale University); FDD Academic Fellow, on Counter-terrorism and Intelligence (Israel); and a Senior Research Fellow at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Background and Professional Life:

Kalu earned his B. Sc in International Environmental Studies/Environmental Science from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, with a second major in Philosophy (Existentialism) in 1980; MBA (Organization Theory & Behavior) from Atlanta University in 1982; and a Ph. D in Political Science from Texas Tech University in 1994. He did post-doctoral studies in political science (democratic theory and institutions, citizenship, and international conflict processes) at Yale University (1996-1999), and post-doctoral graduate coursework (Health Policy & Management) at the Yale School of Medicine (1998-2000). He is also a recipient of two Certificates in Joint Strategic Leadership (2010), and National Security Decision Making (2011) from the Air War College (MAFB). He has taught at several institutions including the University of Connecticut, Storrs/Waterbury; and the University of Tampere, Finland (School of Management/Politics) as a Fulbright Scholar & Visiting Professor, 2013-2014.

Professor Kalu is widely published with articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, and has a combined production of over 65 scholarly works cumulatively in terms of publications in journals, books, edited volumes, and in national and international conference presentations. His research emphasis is in the areas of institutional development and organizational change, citizenship and administrative theory, IT-leadership interface, technology and culture, complex adaptive systems, national security and intelligence policy, and health care politics and policies. He has been invited and participated in several international learned conferences in various countries around the world including Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, China, Singapore, and India. He has served as a member of the Editorial Board of Public Administration Review, the premier journal in the field.

Philosophy

Kalu draws great inspiration in the areas of philosophy dealing with existentialism, epistemology, and metaphysics. His views are very much influenced by the works of classical thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Cicero; and the latter works of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, John Dewey, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Hanna Arendt, and Michael Sandel.

Academic publications

• "State Power, Autarchy and Political Conquest in Nigerian Federalism" Published: 2008 ISBN 978-0-7391-1955-6

• "Citizenship: A Reality far From Ideal" (co-edited with Nada Kakabadse and Andrew Kakabadse) Published: 2009 ISBN 978-0-230-24488-7

• "Technology, Culture, and Public Policy: Critical Lessons from Finland" Published:2016 ISBN 978-1-48-222344-6

• "Citizenship: Identity, Institutions, and the Postmodern Challenge" Published: 2016 ISBN 978-1-48-222324-8

• "Constructing Identities: Political Culture, Value Change, and Security Policy in Nigeria" (forthcoming, 2018).

Selected Articles/Chapters

• “All That Glitters: Competing Narratives and Transaction Costs in Complex Collaborative Environments,” Administration & Society, Vol. 45(4): 420-442, May 2013.

• “Liberal Economics, Governance, and Official Development Assistance: Empirical Comments on Theoretical Themes,” African Social Science Review: The African Journal of Social Science, Public and International Affairs, Vol. 5(1), Spring 2012, pp. 47-65.

• “Constructing Identities: Alternative Explanations of Conflict and Violence in the Niger Delta, Nigeria,” (with Air Commodore Olutayo T. Oguntoyinbo), Air and Space Power Journal, Vol. 3(1), 1st Quarter 2012, pp. 85-96.

• “Institution-Building, Not Nation-Building: A Structural -Functional Model.” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 77(1), 2011.

• “The Evolution of Social Capital and Civic Engagement between Non -Profit Networks and County Representatives: A Social Constructivist Approach,” (with Brett W. Remkus). Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 28(1), June 1, 2009 (online); Spring 2010.

• “Strategic Fusion: What Lessons for International Counterterrorism?” Defence Studies: The Journal of the Joint Services Command & Staff College, Vol. 9(1), 2009, pp.129-148, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom.

• “Bridging the Divide: An Integrated Model of National Security Education for a New Era of International Governance.” American Review of Public Administration, 38(1), March 2008, 80-99.

• “Capacity Building and IT Diffusion: A Comparative Assessment of E -Government Environment in Africa,” Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 25(3), 358-371, August 2007.

• “Competing Ideals and the Public Agenda in Medicare Reform: The ‘Garbage Can’ Model Revisited,” Administration & Society, Vol. 37 (1), March 2005.

• "Embedding African Democracy and Development: The Imperative of Institutional Capital,” International Review of Administrative Sciences, Vol. 70(3), September 2004.

• “Of Citizenship, Virtue, and the Administrative Imperative: Deconstructing Aristotelian Civic Republicanism,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 63(4), July/August 2003.

• “Leadership and Discretionary Decision-Making in a Technocratic Administration: Confronting a New Praxis,” Administrative Theory & Praxis, Vol. 23 (3), September 2001.

• “The Praetorian Orthodoxy: Crisis of the Nigerian Military State,” Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Special Issue, Vol. 28, No. 2, Winter 2000, pp. 271-292.

• "Partitions in the Rationalization of Ideas and Beliefs: Past as Prologue," The Yale Political Quarterly, Vol. 21, (1), October 1999.

• “Elitism, Class, and the Democratic Deficit: Founding Themes of the American Republic.” In Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse (Eds.). Global Elites: The Opaque Nature of Transnational Policy Determination, U. K: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.

• “Nigeria: Policymaking and Administrative Systems in the Health Care Sector,” (with Chinelo Ogbuanu, MD; and Ikechukwu Ogbuanu, MD). In Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives, edited by James A. Johnson and Carleen Stoskopf. Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2010, pp. 301-317.

• “Securing Homeland Security: Immigrant Responses to State and Citizenship.” In Jack Pinkowski (Eds.). Handbook of Homeland Security. New York: Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2008, pp. 59-75.

• “Managing People and Information in Complex Organizations. In G. David Garson and Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Eds.). Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, Inc. www.idea-group-ref.com, 2008, pp. 638-649.

He is currently working on an expanded manuscript titled A Functional Theory of Government, Law, and Institutions (forthcoming 2019).

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