Christopher Clapham (Africanist)

Christopher S. Clapham (born 1941) is a British Africanist and political scientist. He studied at Lancaster University and was a senior lecturer in politics (1974–89), and a professor of politics and international relations (1989-2002) there. Since 2002 Clapham is a professor, now emeritus, based at the Centre of African Studies of Cambridge University.[1] [2] [3] He served as the editor of Journal of Modern African Studies from 1997 up to 2012.[3][4] He was a president to the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 1994.[5][6]

Selected publications

Main publications
  • Haile-Selassie's government, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969[7]
  • Liberia and Sierra Leone: an essay in comparative politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, African Studies Series, 20, 1976, 2009
  • Foreign policy making in developing states, a comparative approach, Farnborough, England: Saxon House, 1977
  • Private patronage and public power, political clientelism in the modern state, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982
  • The political dilemmas of military regimes, Christopher Clapham and George D. E. Philip, Eds., London: Routledge, 1985, 2021
  • Third World politics: an introduction, London: Routledge, 1985, 1998
  • Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988
  • Africa and the International System: the Politics of State Survival, Cambridge University Press, 1996
  • African Guerrillas, Christopher Clapham, Ed., Oxford: James Currey, 1998
  • Liberia and Sierra Leone: an Essay in Comparative Politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. African Studies Series 20, 2009
  • Africa and the International System, Christopher Clapham, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny, Joseph Grieco. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Series: Studies in international relations, 2009
  • The Horn of Africa: state formation and decay, London: Hurst, 2017

Further publications
  • The caves of Sof Omar, Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Tourist Organization, 1967
  • Conflicts in Africa, London, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Series: Adelphi papers, no. 93, [1972]
  • Feudalism, modernisation, and the Ethiopian monarchy, Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, 1976
  • The African state, Royal African Society. Conference on Sub-Saharan Africa, London: Royal African Association, 1991
  • The African state in the post-cold war era, Magaliesberg, 1993
  • Papers. African Studies Association of the UK: biennial conference, University of Lancaster, 5–7 September 1994. Christopher S. Clapham, Ed., [African Studies Association of the United Kingdom], [1994]
  • Ethiopia and Eritrea. The politics of post-insurgency, Chapter 6 in Democracy and Political Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, John A. Wiseman, Ed., London: Routledge, 1995
  • Boundary and territory in the Horn of Africa, in African boundaries: Barriers, conduits and opportunities, P. Nugent and A. I. Asiwaju, Eds., London: Pinter, 1996a: 237–250
  • Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Angelique Haugerud, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown, Christopher S. Clapham, and Michael Gomez. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997
  • Being peacekept, Aldershot: Ashgate, in Peacekeeping in Africa, Oliver Furley and Roy May, Eds., London: Routledge Library Editions: Postcolonial Security Studies, 1998
  • The foreign policies of Ethiopia and Eritrea, in African foreign policies. Stephen Wright, Ed., Boulder: Westview Press, 1999
  • Regional integration in Southern Africa. Comparative international perspectives, Johannesburg, South Africa: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), 1999, 2001
  • The decay and attempted reconstruction of African territorial statehood, Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, 2004
  • Big African States: Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan. Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, Greg Mills, Eds., University of the Witwatersrand: Wits University Press, 2006

References
  1. "Professor Christopher Clapham". african.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  2. "Clapham, Christopher". encyclopedia.com. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  3. "Renowned Africanist and scholar to give a public lecture at Georgetown University". albawaba.com. 24 January 2016. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  4. Clapham, Christopher S. (9 November 2012). "Editorial". The Journal of Modern African Studies. Cambridge University Press. 50 (4): 549–550. doi:10.1017/S0022278X12000584. S2CID 232348810.
  5. "African Studies Association, UK Minutes of the Twenty-Ninth Annual General Meeting, Stirling University, Stirling 10 September 1992". African Affairs. Oxford University Press. 92 (366): 112. January 1993. JSTOR 723100. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  6. "African Studies Association, UK Minutes of the Thirty-First Annual General Meeting. Lancaster University, Lancaster 7 September 1994". African Affairs. Oxford University Press. 94 (374): 97–107. January 1995. JSTOR 723917. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  7. Clapham, Christopher S. (1969). "Haile-Selassie's government [full-text scan 254 pages]". archive.org. New York: Praeger. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
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