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Alex de Waal is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including political science and international relations, sociology and political science, law, history, and epidemiology.

The main topics covered in their research include evolving legal systems and governance, African history and culture analysis, historical and contemporary political dynamics, political conflict and governance, American constitutional law and politics, global peace and security dynamics, and health and conflict studies.

De Waal's most frequent coauthors are W. J. Berridge, Justin Lynch, Raga Makawi, Bridget Conley, and V. Fink. Their studies have appeared in several publication venues, most notably Senologie - Zeitschrift für Mammadiagnostik und -therapie, Journal of Genocide Research, Conflict Security and Development, Environment and Security, and Nations and Nationalism.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Famine in Gaza: an example of the global humanitarian crisis," 2024, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • "Hunger in global war economies: understanding the decline and return of famines," 2024, Disasters
  • "Introduction: Situating Ethiopia in Genocide Debates," 2021, Journal of Genocide Research
  • "Identity formation and the political marketplace," 2020, Conflict Security and Development
  • "Somalia's disassembled state: clan unit formation and the political marketplace," 2020, Conflict Security and Development

Alex de Waal has also published a book titled Sudan's Unfinished Democracy in 2022 under Oxford University Press.

Best Publications

  • Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis

    Lincoln Chen;Timothy Evans;Sudhir Anand;Jo Ivey Boufford

  • Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa

    Alexander De Waal

  • New variant famine: AIDS and food crisis in southern Africa.

    Alex de Waal;Alan Whiteside

  • Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan

    Alexander De Waal

  • Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984-1985

    Alexander De Waal

  • When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan

    Alex de Waal

  • Darfur : a short history of a long war

    Julie Flint;Alexander De Waal

  • War in Darfur and the search for peace

    Alexander De Waal

  • Darfur: A New History of a Long War

    Julie Flint;Alexander De Waal

  • The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power

    Alex De Waal

  • Mission without end? Peacekeeping in the African political marketplace

    Alex De Waal

  • Darfur and the failure of the responsibility to protect

    Alex De Waal

  • AIDS And Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis Yet

    Alex de Waal

  • A Re-assessment of Entitlement Theory in the Light of the Recent Famines in Africa

    Alex de Waal

  • How will HIV/AIDS transform African governance?

    Alex de Waal

  • The theory and practice of Meles Zenawi

    Alex de Waal

  • Who Are the Darfurians? Arab and African Identities, Violence and External Engagement

    Alex de Waal

  • Contemporary Warfare in Africa: Changing Context, Changing Strategies

    Alex de Waal

  • 2015 Global Hunger Index: Armed Conflict and the Challenge of Hunger

    Klaus von Grebmer;Jill Bernstein;Alex de Waal;Nilam Prasai

  • Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa

    Alexander De Waal

  • What's new in the ‘New Partnership for Africa's Development’?

    Alex De Waal

  • Counter-insurgency on the cheap

    Alex de Waal

  • African roles in the Libyan conflict of 2011

    Alex De Waal

  • AIDS, SECURITY AND THE MILITARY IN AFRICA: A SOBER APPRAISAL

    Alan Whiteside;Alex de Waal;Tsadkan Gebre-Tensae

  • 2015 Global hunger index: Armed conflict and the challenge of hunger

    Klaus von Grebmer;Jill Bernstein;Nilam Prasai;Sandra Yin

  • The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars

    Unknown

  • Rwanda : death, despair and defiance

    Rakiya Omaar;Alex De Waal

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Kaldor
Mary Kaldor London School of Economics and Political Science
Mark McGillivray
Mark McGillivray Deakin University
Gail M. Gerhart
Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University
Koen Vlassenroot
Koen Vlassenroot Ghent University
Mehran Kamrava
Mehran Kamrava Georgetown University
Sudhir Anand
Sudhir Anand University of Oxford
Lincoln C. Chen
Lincoln C. Chen China Medical Board
Timothy G. Evans
Timothy G. Evans McGill University
Christian Davenport
Christian Davenport University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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