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. 1 2 "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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