Merle Lipton
Associate Fellow, Africa Programme
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Expertise
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South Africa - its history and recent political economy developments
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South Africa's growing role in Africa
Projects
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Research on the links between South African foreign policy and domestic politics.
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Convening a series of meetings on 'The role of Agriculture in combating poverty and promoting economic growth in Africa'.
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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
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