Stephen Chan
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Stephen Chan 's Degrees
- PhD International Relations University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stephen Chan is an author and Professor of World Politics at SOAS, University of London. He was appointed an OBE for "services to Africa and higher education" in 2010. He has published number of books on international relations and articles and reviews in the academic and specialist press, as well as journalistic feature articles.
Stephen Chan 's Published Works
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Published Works
- South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search of Status and Security 1945-1988 (1990) (85)
- Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence (2002) (72)
- The morality of China in Africa : the Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent (2013) (27)
- War and peace in Mozambique (1998) (27)
- The Memory of Violence: trauma in the writings of Alexander Kanengoni and Yvonne Vera and the idea of unreconciled citizenship in Zimbabwe (2005) (24)
- The Zen of international relations: IR theory from East to West (2001) (21)
- The Dragons and the Snakes: how the rest learned to fight the West (2020) (20)
- Zimbabwe in Crisis : The International Response and the Space of Silence (2007) (19)
- Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War (2004) (18)
- The ontologist always rings twice: two more stones about structure and agency in reply to Hollis and Smith (1996) (17)
- Zimbabwe's foreign policy: A conversation (2006) (17)
- The imagination of land and the reality of seizure (2004) (11)
- Too Neat and Under-Thought A World Order: Huntington and Civilisations (1997) (11)
- Renegade states : the evolution of revolutionary foreign policy (1994) (11)
- Seven Types of Ambiguity in Western International Relations Theory and Painful Steps Towards Right Ethics (1997) (9)
- The Warlord and Global Order (1999) (9)
- Citizen of Zimbabwe: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai (2010) (9)
- A Problem for IR: How Shall We Narrate the Saga of the Bestial Man? (2003) (9)
- A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR: (1999) (8)
- A Chinese Political Sociology in Our Times (2009) (8)
- Writing Sacral IR: An Excavation Involving Küng, Eliade, and Illiterate Buddhism (2000) (8)
- Zimbabwe since the unity government (2012) (8)
- The Bitterness of the Islamic Hero in Three Recent Western Works of Fiction (2010) (7)
- Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamic Group 2005–2012 (2013) (6)
- Presidentialism and Vice Presidentialism in a Commonwealth Country: A Cameo in Zambia (2013) (6)
- War and Gropings towards Peace (1998) (6)
- The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism (2009) (6)
- A New Triptych for International Relations in the 21st Century: Beyond Waltz and Beyond Lacan's Antigone, with a Note on the Falun Gong of China (2003) (5)
- China's Foreign Policy and Africa: The Rise and Fall of China's Three World's Theory (1985) (5)
- And What Do Peacekeeping Troops Do Apart From Burying the Dead, Then? (1997) (5)
- The Diplomatic Styles of Zambia and Zimbabwe (1994) (4)
- Rorty as shadow warrior: Hans Küng and a global ethic (1999) (4)
- Commonwealth Residualism and the Machinations of Power in a Turbulent Zimbabwe (2001) (4)
- Plural International Relations in a Divided World (2017) (4)
- Three birds of different feathers: The commonwealth, the commonwealth secretary‐general and the commonwealth secretariat (1984) (3)
- An Ornithology of Secretaries-General: The Commonwealth and its Leadership (2005) (3)
- Zambia's foreign policy: Elitism and power (1987) (3)
- Zambia and the decline of Kaunda, 1984-1998 (2000) (3)
- Africa’s Third Liberation (2013) (3)
- Social Development in Africa Today: Some Radical Proposals (1991) (3)
- An ontologist strikes back: a further response to Hollis and Smith (1998) (3)
- Mugabe: Right and wrong (2003) (3)
- Fast Food, Paranoia and Politics: The New Zealand Novel in 1986 (1987) (2)
- Casework With Unemployed African Youth (1984) (2)
- The Pain of Susan Sontag (2010) (2)
- Ownership, Transient Rights, Spiritual Source, Nostalgia: Land and its discontents (2011) (2)
- A multitude of decolonial metropoles – what navigation for commonality and unity? (2021) (2)
- Introduction: Within International Relations Itself, a New Culture Rises Up (2001) (2)
- Twentieth-Century International History: A Reader (1998) (2)
- Theorising in International Relations Contemporary Theorists and Their Critics (1997) (2)
- Abuja and after: the case for change in the Commonwealth secretariat (2004) (2)
- Review of Vivienne Jabri, 'War and the transformation of global politics' (2008) (1)
- Alternative Institutional Arrangements for Human Development (2010) (1)
- The Problematic Non-Western cosmopolitanism in Africa today: Grappling with A modernity outside history (2018) (1)
- The Limits of Guilt and Correctness: The Postcolonial Metropole and Postcolonial Literature (2014) (1)
- Troubled pluralisms: Pondering an Indonesian moment for Zimbabwe and Zambia (1999) (1)
- A summer polemic: Revolution, rebellion and romance. Some notes towards the resacralisation of I.R. (1993) (1)
- Untruthful Mandarins and Mandarins of Truth (2014) (1)
- AFTER THE ORDER TO CIVILIZATION (2008) (1)
- 1 War and Gropings towards Peace (0)
- Fanon. The Octogenarian of International Revenge and the Suicide Bomber of Today (2007) (0)
- A Day in Iranian Diplomacy: Stephen Chan Suggests That Iran Is Pursuing a Very Effective Diplomatic Strategy in Relation to the United States (2007) (0)
- The Life of Chan Wong Wah Yue: Swordswoman, Militia Member and Grandmother [Interview] (2015) (0)
- African Diplomacy and the Development of Self-Awareness (2020) (0)
- Review of David Harold-Barry (ed), 'Zimbabwe: The Past is the Future' (2005) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2003) (0)
- Book Reviews (2010) (0)
- Zimbabwe: is there unity, disunity or a workable façade of unity? (2009) (0)
- Fanon (2007) (0)
- Towards a Future (1998) (0)
- The development of IGAD as a distinctively African regional Security community for the horn of Africa with case studies of South Sudan and Somalia (2019) (0)
- Ngugi Wa Thiongo Speaks: Interviews (2007) (0)
- Redefining the Third World for a New Millennium: An Aching Towards Subjectivity (1998) (0)
- Book Review: Jeffrey Herbst, The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993, 180 pp., S40 hbk.) (1994) (0)
- A Plenitude of Questions (2018) (0)
- Zimbabwe's the Old Fox Eludes the Hunt (2005) (0)
- Review of: Isaac and Isaiah: The Covert Punishment of a Cold War Heretic (2014) (0)
- Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century edited by Ebenezer Obadare and Wendy Willems Woodbridge: James Currey, 2014. Pp. 236. £45 (hbk) (2014) (0)
- Ian Taylor: The Compassionate Apostle of a Properly Researched and Fully Experienced Approach to China and Africa (2021) (0)
- China and Africa: Engagement and compromise, by Ian Taylor (2008) (0)
- Zambia and Zimbabwe: Two Histories of Two Very Different Sorts (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Felipe Korzenny and Stella Ting-Toomey (eds.), Communicating for Peace: Diplomacy and Negotiation (London: Sage, 1990, 255pp., £29.50 hbk., £15.75 pbk.) (1990) (0)
- In My Tribulations Lies My Great Victory: Tribulations of a Female Freedom Fighter in the Zimbabwe War of Liberation (2017) (0)
- Body Count in Natal (2000) (0)
- Twenty-First Century Jihad: Law, Society and Military Action (2017) (0)
- A Review Article (1985) (0)
- Book Reviews (2011) (0)
- Hermeneutics of Hope : A Dialogical Study of Paul Ricoeur and (2007) (0)
- Kissinger and the Westphalian State: Still Faithful After All These Years (2015) (0)
- African Political Thought (2013) (0)
- Review of Thandika Mkandawire (ed), 'African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development' (2005) (0)
- Chabal's Sweeping Bon Sequitur (2009) (0)
- Trauma, Dislocation, and Lived Fear in the Postsecular World: Towards a First Methodological Checklist (2015) (0)
- Review of Reinhard Sander and Bernth Lindfors (eds), 'Ngugi wa Thiongo Speaks' (2007) (0)
- Non‐fiction reviews (1992) (0)
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES: An international relations that goes, both rightly and wrongly, where International Relations dares not go (2016) (0)
- A Day in Iranian Diplomacy (2007) (0)
- A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR (1999) (0)
- Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka (2015) (0)
- ANC’s landslide victory won’t shield it from forces of change (2014) (0)
- Africa’s Turn, by Edward Miguel (2010) (0)
- Songs of love, songs of hate and songs of Ebola (2014) (0)
- Zimbabwe: Land and Starvation (2003) (0)
- Commonwealth African ministries of youth—problems in planning (1984) (0)
- Book Review: Doreen Indra (ed.), Engendering Forced Migration: Theory and Practice (New York: Berghahn Books, 1999, 390 pp., £40.00 hbk.) (1999) (0)
- Mercy and the structures of the world : Third Hans Singer Memorial Lecture (2012) (0)
- Sanctions and South Africa: Strategies, strangleholds, and self‐consciousness (1988) (0)
- Can there be mercy without the merciful? A meditation on Martha Nussbaum’s questions (2014) (0)
- Israel’s stated aims in Gaza make no sense – and cannot secure a just future (2014) (0)
- A Short History of African Philosophy by BARRY HALLEN Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 134, US$14.95 (pbk.). (2005) (0)
- Theories of Foreign Policy and International Relations (2020) (0)
- Review of Edwin G. Pulleyblank, 'Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China' (2003) (0)
- Ethics and international relations: Gordon Graham, Blackwell, Oxford, 1997, 183pp. £40, $49.95 (hbk); £19.99, $21.95 (pbk) (1998) (0)
- Book Review: Roland Bleiker (ed.), Painting Politics. Special Issue of Social Alternatives, 20:4 2001 (Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland, 2001, 60 pp., Aus $15.00 pbk.) (2001) (0)
- No More “Local” Insurrection or Terrorism: The Dark Side of the Cobweb (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews (2011) (0)
- Stories of Priam and Job, the Slaughter of Their Families, and Twenty Theses on the Suggestiveness of Good for the Person of IR (2001) (0)
- Islam and International Relations: Exploring Community and the Limits of Universalism; Faith Unity Discipline: The ISI of Pakistan (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Thomas Sowell, Race and Culture: A World View (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1994, 331 pp., £16.95 hbk.) (1995) (0)
- South Sudan’s spiritual father would weep at the state of his country (2015) (0)
- Book reviews/Boekbesprekings (1985) (0)
- Book Review: Gavin Maasdorp and Alan Whiteside (eds.), Towards a Post-Apartheid Future in Southern Africa (London: Macmillan, 1992, 226 pp., £40 hbk.) (1994) (0)
- The last blank spaces: Exploring Africa and Australia [Book Review] (2013) (0)
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