Research Director, Regional and Security Studies; and Head, Africa Programme

Expertise

• Politics in sub-Saharan Africa, especially Angola
• Private security and political risk in Africa
• Proliferation of light weapons and landmines in Africa

Projects

• African politics
• UN embargoes in Africa
• Asia in Africa
• Impact of oil and gas in Africa

Recent Publications

• 'Au-DeLà Du Pétro-militarisme: La Strategie Exterieure Angolaise D'Après-Guerre', (with Phillipe Le Billion et al), Politique Africaine, no.110, June 2008
• 'Bullets to Ballots: The Reintegration of UNITA in Angola', (with Bereni Oruitemeka), Conflict, Security & Development, vol.8, no. 2, June 2008
• 'Engagement with the African Indian Ocean Rim States', (with Bereni Oruitemeka), in India in Africa, South African Journal of International Affairs, vol.14, no.2, April 2008
• 'Angola and China: A Pragmatic Partnership', (with Indira Campos), CSIS Working Paper, March 2008
• 'Options for the EU to Support the African Peace and Security Architecture', (with Roger Middleton), European Parliament's Directorate General External Policies of the Union, February 2008
• 'Can UN arms embargoes in Africa be effective?', International Affairs, vol.83, no.6, November 2007
• 'China in Africa: A Mixed Blessing?', Current History, vol. 106, no. 700, May 2007
• 'Estudo de caso: UK Policy Toward Angola and Mozambique,' in Fernando Cardoso (ed) Diplomacia, Cooperação e Negócios: o Papel dos Actores Externos em Angola e Moçambique (Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais, 2007)
• 'Dousing the flames of resource wars', in The Politics of Africa's Resources, South African Journal of International Affairs vol.13, no.2, December 2006
• 'Sanctions and enforcement', (with Holger Anders) in UNIDIR etal ed, Developing a Mechanism to Prevent Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons: Scope and Implications (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 2006)
• 'The Scramble for Resources: African Case Studies' in China in Africa, South African Journal of International Affairs, vol.13, Summer/Autumn 2006
• '"Le Monde Doit Nous Jugar Sur L'Afrique"': L'Heritage Africaine De Tony Blair (with Tom Cargill) in, Politique Africaine, no.101, March-April 2006
• 'Combating Light Weapons Proliferation in West Africa', International Affairs, vol.81, no.2, March 2005
• 'Angola: Forty Years of War', P. Batchelor, P & K Kingma (eds) Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa, vol. 2, (Ashgate, 2004)
• 'Engine of War: Resources, Greed and the Predatory State', (with Arvind Ganesan) in Human Rights and Armed Conflict: Human Rights Watch World Report 2004 (Human Rights Watch, 2004)
• 'Monitoring UN Sanctions in Africa: the role of panels of experts', in Trevor Findlay (ed) Verification Yearbook 2003 (London Vertic, 2004)
• 'Angola: New Hopes for Civil Society?', (with Steve Kibble), Review of African Political Economy, vol. 28, no. 90, December 2001
• 'Mercenaries, Human Rights and Legality', in A-F. Musah and J. 'Kayode Fayemi (eds.), Mercenaries: an African Security Dilemma, (Pluto Press, 2000)
• 'Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process', (Human Rights Watch, 1999)

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