Jeffrey Herbst is the 16th President of Colgate University and has written extensively on political and international affairs. His primary research interests are in the politics of sub- Saharan Africa, the politics of political and economic reform and the politics of boundaries. Greg Mills is director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation. He is widely published on international affairs, development and security, an adviser to African governments, and the author of the best-selling books Why Africa is Poor: And What Africans Can Do About It (2010) and Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe (2014).