Politics
Dr Chris Alden
Lecturer, Department of International Relations, LSE, j.c.alden@lse.ac.uk
- Political transitions; post-conflict reconstruction; South African foreign policy; role of external actions in African politics
- South Africa, Mozambique, Angola
Professor Patrick Chabal
Professor of Lusophone African Studies, KCL, patrick.chabal@kcl.ac.uk
- History, politics and literature of Lusophone Africa; politics in Africa; the political history of Africa; comparative politics: culture and politics
- Africa generally but with special interest in Portuguese-speaking Africa: Angola, Mozambique, S o Tom!" e Pr"ncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau.
Professor Stephen Chan
Dean of Law and Social Sciences; Professor of International Relations, sc5@soas.ac.uk
- The movement towards democracy in Commonwealth Africa and other selected states. Conceptual underpinnings of Africanist thought and those forms of Afro-essentialism.
Dr David Harris
Teaching Fellow, SOAS, Department of Politics and International Relations, dh16@soas.ac.uk
- Sierra Leone and Liberia; elections after conflict; rebel groups and political parties.
Dr David Styan
Lecturer, School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck, d.styan@bbk.ac.uk
- Political economy of the Horn of Africa
- UK and French policy towards Africa
- UK African diaspora
Dr Michael Twaddle
Reader in Commonwealth Studies, ICS, Michael.Twaddle@sas.ac.uk
- Politics and recent history; structural adjustment policies; religion and politics; political biography; overseas Indians in East Africa and Caribbean; religion in post-colonial Uganda.
- East Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Dr Tom Young
Senior Lecturer in Politics with reference to Africa, SOAS, ty@soas.ac.uk
- Ethnicity and politics; regional politics of Southern Africa; political theory; regional implications of structural adjustment and governance policies.
- Southern Africa, South Africa, Mozambique
