Chris Alden
Chris Alden
Head of the China in Africa Project
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Areas of Research Expertise:
- China-Africa relations
- South African foreign policy
- Post-conflict reconstruction
Background:
Dr Chris Alden teaches and researches on foreign policy and the international politics of Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand and, currently, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Amongst his publications are China in Africa (Zed 2007) and The South in World Politics (Palgrave forthcoming).
Language:
English and a working knowledge of Portuguese
Recent publications:
Alden C, Large D & R Soares de Oliveira (eds), China Returns to Africa: a rising power and a continent embrace, London: Hurst, 2008.
Alden C, China in Africa, London: Zed 2007.
Alden C & G le Pere, 'South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy: From Reconciliation to Renewal?', Adelphi Paper 362, London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2003.
