Chris Alden
Programme Head: Global Powers and Africa
• Global powers and Africa
• China-Africa
• Post conflict reconstruction
• Foreign Policy Analysis
Background:
Dr Chris Alden hold a Readership in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He taught International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1990 to 2000 and established the East Asia Project in 1992. He has held fellowships at Cambridge University, Tokyo University, Ecole Normale Superieure, and University of Pretoria.
Languages spoken:
Portuguese (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Chinese (elementary)
Recent Publications:
Foreign Policy Analysis: New Approaches co-authored with Amnon Aran (London: Routledge 2011).
Militias and the Challenges of Post-Conflict Peace: Silencing the Guns, co-authored with Matt Arnold and Monika Thakur (London: Zed 2010).
L’Afrique: Un Continent Pour La China, Les Temps Modernes, co-edited with Jean Khalfa and Yoon Park (Paris: Temps Modernes 2010).
The South in World Politics, co-authored with Sally Morphet and Marco Antonio Vieira (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2010).
Struggle for Land in Africa: Conflict, Politics and Change, co-edited with Ward Anseeuw (Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council 2010)
‘Regional Organizations and the Problematic of Western-designated Pariahs’, European Asian Journal of Law and Governance 1:2 2011, pp. 205-224,
‘India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA): South-South co-operation and the paradox of regional leadership’ (with Marco Vieira), Global Governance, 17:3 2011, pp. 507-528.
‘China’s Exceptionalism and the Challenges of Delivering Difference in Africa’, (with Dan Large), Journal of Contemporary China 20:68 2011, pp. 21-38.
Email address: j.c.alden[@]lse.ac.uk
