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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Merle Lipton

Associate Fellow, Africa Programme

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Expertise

  • South Africa - its history and recent political economy developments
  • South Africa's growing role in Africa

Projects

  • Research on the links between South African foreign policy and domestic politics.
  • Convening a series of meetings on 'The role of Agriculture in combating poverty and promoting economic growth in Africa'.
  • Convening a series of roundtables on Southern Africa.

Recent Publications

  • Liberals, Marxists & Nationalists: Competing interpretations of South African History, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.
  • Co-editor/Contributor, Land, Labour and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa, Indicator Press, Durban, 1997.
  • Co-editor/contributor, State and Market in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Witwatersrand University Press, 1993.
  • The Challenge of Sanctions, Centre for the Study of the South African Economy, London School of Economics, 1991.
  • Sanctions & South Africa: the dynamics of economic isolation, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1988.
  • Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa, 1910-84. Wildwood Press, Alderhot. 1985. Updated edition with an Epilogue in 1986.

Experience

  • Presented invited testimony to United States Congressional committees on the impact of economic sanctions on South Africa, and also before expert committees of the United Nations.
  • Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House
  • Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Southern Africa, Sussex University
  • Professorial Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins, Washington DC
  • Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC
  • Research Fellow at the Centre for Southern African Studies, Yale University