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
• UK foreign policy

Recent Publications

• 'Angola and the Global Economic Downturn', (with Markus Weimer), Portuguese Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2009
• 'Beyond Bullets and Ballots: The Reintegration of UNITA in Angola', (with Bereni Oruitemeka), in M Berdal and D Ucko (eds), Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition, Routledge, 2009
  
• '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, 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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