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Alex Vines, OBE

Alex Vines, OBE

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

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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

  • 'China's Place in Angola's Foreign Policy', in Sharon T. Freeman (ed.), China, Africa, and the African Diaspora, All American Small Business Exporters Association Inc., 2009
  • 'Obama's Sub-Saharan Africa Policy: Implications for Europe,' (with Tom Cargill), in Ã?lvaro Vasconcelos and Marcin Zaborowski (eds), The Obama Moment: European and American Perspectives, The European Institute for Security Studies, 2009
  • Thirst for African Oil: Asian National Oil Companies in Nigeria and Angola, (with others), Chatham House Report, August 2009
  • 'India's Strategy in Africa: Looking Beyond the India-Africa Forum', South African Yearbook of International Affairs 2008/9, SAIIA, 2009
  • Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea, (with Arvind Ganesan and Carly Tubbs), Human Rights Watch, 2009
  • 'Angola: Thirty Years of Dos Santos', (with Markus Weimer), Review of African Political Economy, no. 120, vol. 36, June 2009
  • '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

Experience

2008 - Date Research Director, Regional and Security Studies, Chatham House
Nov 2009 - Part-Time Lecturer, Faculty of Business, Environment & Society, and Research Associate, African Studies Centre, Coventry University
2005 - 2007 Member, later Chair, UN Panel of Experts on Côte d'Ivoire
2001 - 2003 Member, UN Panel of Experts on Liberia
2002 - Date Head, Africa Programme, Chatham House
2002 - Date Senior Researcher, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch (part-time)
1999 - 2002 Associate Fellow, British-Angola Forum, Chatham House
1999 - Date Editorial boards, South African Journal of International Affairs and (until 2005) Journal of Southern African Studies
1993 - 2002 Researcher/Senior Researcher, Arms and Africa Divisions, Human Rights Watch
1997 MacArthur NGO Fellow, Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London
1994 - 2000 Research Associate, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford
1994 Electoral officer, UNOMOZ, Mozambique
1992 Electoral officer, UNAVEM II, Angola
1990 - 1993 Africa Analyst, Control Risks
1989 Research Assistant, National Museums and Monuments, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
1988 Graduate Scholar, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Broadcast Experience

Extensive

Languages

Portuguese (broadcast standard), French, Spanish (not for broadcast)