Christopher Clapham (Africanist)


Christopher S. Clapham is a British Africanist and political scientist. He read PPE at Keble College, Oxford, graduating in 1963. In 1971 he joined Lancaster University and served there as senior lecturer in politics and then professor of politics and international relations. Since 2002 Clapham is a professor, now emeritus, based at the Centre of African Studies of Cambridge University.
He served as the editor of Journal of Modern African Studies from 1997 up to 2012. He was a president to the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 1994.
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Selected publications

Clapham's publications include:

Main publications

Haile-Selassie's government, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969Liberia 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, 1977Private 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, 2021Third World politics: an introduction, London: Routledge, 1985, 1998Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988 Africa and the International System: the Politics of State Survival, Cambridge University Press, 1996African Guerrillas, Christopher Clapham, Ed., Oxford: James Currey, 1998Liberia and Sierra Leone: an Essay in Comparative Politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. African Studies Series 20, 2009Africa and the International System, Christopher Clapham, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny, Joseph Grieco. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Series: Studies in international relations, 2009The 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, Feudalism, modernisation, and the Ethiopian monarchy, Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, 1976The African state, Royal African Society. Conference on Sub-Saharan Africa, London: Royal African Association, 1991The African state in the post-cold war era, Magaliesberg, 1993Papers. African Studies Association of the UK: biennial conference, University of Lancaster, 5–7 September 1994. Christopher S. Clapham, Ed.,,
  • 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: 237–250Culture 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, 1999Regional integration in Southern Africa. Comparative international perspectives, Johannesburg, South Africa: South African Institute of International Affairs, 1999, 2001The decay and attempted reconstruction of African territorial statehood, Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, 2004Big African States: Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan. Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, Greg Mills, Eds., University of the Witwatersrand: Wits University Press, 2006