Professor Chris Alden

Professor Chris Alden

Professor of International Relations, Director of LSE IDEAS

Department of International Relations

Telephone
+44 (0)20 7955 1107
Room No
Floor 9, Pankhurst House, Clement's Inn
Office Hours
Please email for an appointment
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Foreign Policy Analysis, China and Africa, South African foreign policy

About me

Professor Chris Alden teaches International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he is Deputy Head of the Department (PhD and Research). He is also Director of LSE IDEAS. He is a Research Associate with South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

He is author/co-author of numerous books, including Apartheid’s Last Stand – the Rise and Fall of the South African Security State (Palgrave 1996), Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State (Palgrave 2003), South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy (Adelphi Paper IISS 2003), China in Africa (Zed 2007), Land, Liberation and Compromise in Southern Africa (Palgrave/Macmillan 2009) The South and World Politics (Palgrave 2010), Foreign Policy Analysis – New Approaches 2nd edition (Routledge 2017), and co-editor of China and Mozambique: from Comrades to Capitalist (Johannesburg: Jacana 2014), China Returns to Africa (Hurst 2008), China and Africa – Building Peace and Security Cooperation on the Continent (Palgrave 2017), New Directions in Africa-China Studies (Routledge 2019) as well as having written numerous articles in internationally recognised journals.

Professor Alden has held fellowships at Cambridge University, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo; Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto; Ecole Normale Superieure (Cachan), Paris; CERI, Paris; and University of Pretoria.

Professor Alden is not taking on new PhD students for entry in 2024/25.

 

 

Professor Alden supervises doctoral studies in areas including: 
China-Africa studies, South African foreign policy, comparative foreign policy

Expertise Details

Foreign Policy Analysis; China and Africa; South African foreign policy; post-conflict reconstruction

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