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Andreasson

Dr Stefan Andreasson

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
(PhD Arizona State, MA Louisiana State, BA Alabama at Birmingham)

Consultant Editor,
The British Journal of Politics & International Relations

 

Contact Details
Room 026.02.002
tel: +44 028 9097 3051
email: s.andreasson@qub.ac.uk  
Publications & CV website

 

Teaching Areas

African and postcolonial politics; the political economy of development and emerging markets; American and comparative politics.

I currently convene two undergraduate modules: Africa in the Global Political Economy and American Politics. I also contribute generally to the Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) degree programme. At MA level I contribute primarily to International Political Economy.


Research Interests

My research background is in comparative politics and southern African politics, with a long standing interest in political economy and the history of political thought in terms of how these fields of study bear on our understanding of political transitions, development, democratisation and the evolving nature of the postcolonial world. My research has increasingly become focussed on Africa's changing role in the global economy, in the context of the BRICS and emerging markets generally. Another area of research I have been developing recently concerns comparative and theoretical aspects of Anglo-American conservatism and its applicability to the study of postcolonial politics.

Specific research interest include: Africa's role in the global economy; state-business relations and their impact on development; the legacy of settler colonialism; political transitions in Anglophone colonial contexts; the history of capitalism in Southern Africa; corporate governance in developing countries; relations between North and South in the global economy; conservatism and economic development. Most of these research projects relate to my longstanding fascination with the philosophical and political origins of development as a concept and the theoretical debates on what constitutes progress and development as defined by orthodox and post-development approaches to the subject.

My research at Queen’s has been funded by the ESRC World Economy and Finance Research Programme, the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation. Publications indicative of my key research interested have appeared in journals such as Political Studies, Political Geography, Business & Society, Third World Quarterly, Democratization, and Journal of Contemporary African Studies. I am the author of Africa’s Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation (Zed Books) and am currently writing a book entitled Conservatism and Postcolonial Politics (under contract with Routledge).

Current research projects:

- South Africa's emerging market status and implications for development in Africa (funded by the Nuffield Foundation);
- Anglo-American conservatism and African development (funded by the British Academy);
- a monograph on conservatism and postcolonial politics.


Research Supervision

I am happy to supervise research students in areas related to my research interests outlined above, as well as postcolonial politics and the political economy of development more generally.

Current and recently completed PhD supervision projects include, among others:

- Non-state actors and Official Development Assistance in the OECD's Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness; 
- the impact of philantrophic and private donors on Irish foreign aid;
- South African and Indian participation in the G20;
- The WTO and politics of economic liberalization in the UAE;
- comparative social movements and protest in Europe.


Recent/Selected Publications


  • 'Conservatism', in V. Geoghegan and R. Wilford (eds.), Political Ideologies: An Introduction, 4th ed. (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2014). 
  • 'Elusive Agency: Africa's Persistently Peripheral Role in International Relations', pp. 143-157 in W. Brown and S. Harman (eds.), African Agency in International Politics (London: Routledge, 2013).
  • 'On the nature of Anglophone conservatism and its applicability to the analysis of postcolonial politics', pp. 89-113, in D. Özsel (ed.), Reflections on Conservatism (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011).
  • 'Understanding corporate governance reform in South Africa: Anglo-American divergence, the King Reports and hybridization', Business & Society Vol. 50, No. 4 (2011), pp. 647-673. [published online 18 February 2009 via SAGE OnlineFirst]
  • 'Africa’s prospects and South Africa's leadership potential in the emerging markets century', Third World Quarterly Vol. 32, No. 6 (2011), pp. 1165-1181.
  • Confronting the Settler Legacy: Indigenisation and Transformation in South Africa and Zimbabwe', Political Geography Vol. 29, No. 8 (2010), pp. 424-433.
  • 'Can the "developmental state" save southern Africa?', Global Dialogue: An International Affairs Review Vol.12, No.1 (2007), pp. 6-10.
  • ‘The Resilience of Comprador Capitalism: “New” Economic Groups in Southern Africa’, pp. 274-296 in A. E. Fernández Jilberto and B. Hogenboom (eds.), Big Business and Economic Development: Conglomerates and Economic Groups in Developing Countries and Transition Economies Under Globalisation (London: Routledge, 2007).
  • 'The ANC and its critics: "predatory liberalism", black economic empowerment and intra-alliance tensions in post-apartheid South Africa', Democratization, Vol. 13., No. 2 (April 2006), pp. 303-322.
  • 'Stand and deliver: private property and the politics of global dispossession', Political Studies Vol.54, No.1 (2006), pp. 3-22.
  • 'Accumulation and growth to what end? Reassessing the modern faith in progress in the "age of development"', Capitalism Nature Socialism Vol.16, No.4 (2005), pp. 57-76.
  • 'Orientalism and African development studies: the "reductive repetition" motif in theories of African underdevelopment', Third World Quarterly Vol.26, No.6 (2005), pp. 971-986.