Emmanuel Balogun, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Skidmore College. He is a scholar-practitioner who researches multilateralism in Africa. His new book, Region-Building in West Africa: Convergence and Agency in ECOWAS, shows how bureaucrats in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) responds to security, health, and financial crises. Emmanuel is a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and works with the Department of State as a policy advisor on US-African relations. He was the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion fellow for Bridging the Gap. He was the Principal Investigator for a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant in Ghana. Emmanuel has a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delaware.
Our next Bridging the Gap Book Nook features Emmanuel Balogun, an assistant professor of political science at Skidmore College and Bridging the Gap's inaugural Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow. He discusses his new book Region-Building in West Africa: Convergence and Agency in ECOWAS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLVZp56pL4Q