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Overview

Christopher Clapham is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences, with a particular focus on anthropology, political science, and related interdisciplinary areas.

Their scholarly output covers several main topics including African history and culture analysis, anthropological studies and insights, colonialism, slavery, and trade, as well as political conflict and governance. Specific research interests also extend into global maritime and colonial histories and land rights and reforms.

Recent publications include:

  • Decolonising African Studies? (2020), published in The Journal of Modern African Studies
  • Haile Selassie: His Rise, His Fall (2020), published in Northeast African Studies

These articles reflect an engagement with themes of African history, political dynamics, and critical approaches within African studies.

Publication venues where Christopher Clapham has contributed include:

  • The Journal of Modern African Studies
  • Northeast African Studies

Main fields of study encompass:

  • Social Sciences

Subfields within their research are:

  • Anthropology
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Soil Science

The topics explored in their work include:

  • African history and culture analysis
  • Anthropological Studies and Insights
  • African history and culture studies
  • Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

There is no recorded information regarding frequent collaborators or awards for Christopher Clapham in the available data. No book publications are listed under their name.

Best Publications

  • Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival

    Christopher S. Clapham

  • Third World Politics: An Introduction

    Christopher S. Clapham

  • Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia

    Christopher S. Clapham

  • Degrees of statehood

    Christopher Clapham

  • The challenge to the state in a globalized world.

    Christopher Clapham

  • The Ethiopian developmental state

    Christopher Clapham

  • Adjusting privatization : case studies from developing countries

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  • Rwanda: The Perils of Peacemaking

    Christopher Clapham

  • Ethnic federalism : the Ethiopian experience in comparative perspective

    David Turton;Christopher S. Clapham

  • The Ethiopian developmental state

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  • Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

    Christopher Clapham

  • Haile Selassie's Government

    Christopher S. Clapham

  • Post-war Ethiopia: The Trajectories of Crisis

    Christopher Clapham

  • Africa and the international system: Frontmatter

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  • Learning from Somalia: The Lessons of Armed Humanitarian Intervention

    Christopher Clapham;Walter Clarke;Jeffrey Herbst

  • Sovereignty and the Third World state

    Christopher S. Clapham

  • Private Patronage and Public Power: Political Clientelism in the Modern State

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  • Ethiopian Development: The Politics of Emulation

    Christopher Clapham

  • Liberia and Sierra Leone

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  • The Liberian Civil War

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  • Controlling space in Ethiopia.

    Christopher Clapham

  • RETHINKING AFRICAN STATES

    Christopher Clapham

  • Liberia and Sierra Leone: An Essay in Comparative Politics

    Christopher S. Clapham

  • Democratisation in Africa: Obstacles and prospects

    Christopher Clapham

  • Discerning the New Africa

    Christopher Clapham

  • Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival

    Chris Brown;Christopher Clapham

  • Ethiopia: The Fifteenth Year of the Revolution@@@Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia@@@Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia@@@The Ethiopian Transformation@@@Revolutionary Ethiopia, Bloomington@@@National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa

    Marina Ottaway;Christopher Clapham;Dawit Wolde Giorgis;John W. Harbeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Herbst
Jeffrey Herbst Princeton University
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University
I. William Zartman
I. William Zartman Johns Hopkins University
Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg Harvard University
Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday London School of Economics and Political Science
Daniel N. Posner
Daniel N. Posner University of California, Los Angeles
Brendan O'Leary
Brendan O'Leary University of Pennsylvania

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