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Andreasson

Dr Stefan Andreasson

Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
(PhD Arizona State)

Consultant Editor,
The British Journal of Politics & International Relations

 

Contact Details
Room 18.203
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3051
email: s.andreasson@qub.ac.uk  
Publications & CV website

 

Teaching Areas

African and postcolonial politics, American and comparative politics and the political economy of development.

I currently convene three undergraduate modules: American Politics, Politics of Southern Africa and the School's Internship which places final year students with a range of public bodies in Northern Ireland. I also contribute 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. More recently my research has increasingly become focussed on comparative and theoretical aspects of Anglo-American conservatism, in particular its relationship to classical liberalism and to the anti-Enlightenment tradition, as well as its applicability to the study of postcolonial politics.

Specific research interest include: the legacy of settler colonialism; political transitions in Anglophone colonial contexts; state-business relations and their impact on development and democratisation; 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:

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


Research Supervision

I am happy to supervise research students in areas related to my research interests outlined above, as well as theoretical and empirical approaches to postcolonial politics and development more generally. If you are working on a proposal in any of these areas, feel free to contact me for further discussion.

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


  • '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).
  • '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.
  • 'Understanding corporate governance reform in South Africa: Anglo-American divergence, the King Reports and hybridization', Business & Society (in press; published online February 2009 via SAGE OnlineFirst).
  • '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.