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Andreasson

Dr Stefan Andreasson

Lecturer in Comparative Politics
(PhD Arizona State)

Consultant Editor,
The British Journal of Politics & International Relations

Contact Details
Room 21.301
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3051
email: s.andreasson@qub.ac.uk
Publications & CV website

Teaching Areas

ON RESEARCH LEAVE ACADEMIC YEAR 2009-10

I lecture and give tutorials in the areas of African and postcolonial politics, comparative and American politics and the political economy of development.

I currently convene two undergraduate modules: Politics of Southern Africa and Comparative Politics of America and Europe. I also contribute to the Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) degree programme. At MA level I convene a comparative case study module on Southern Africa.

Research Interests

My primary research interests are the political economy of development, postcolonial politics and Southern African politics . 

Specific research interest include: the legacy of settler colonialism; state-business relations and their impact on development and democratisation; the history of capitalism in Southern Africa; relations between North and South in the global economy. More abstractly, I am interested in the philosophical and political origins of development as a concept and the theoretical debates on what constitutes development as defined by orthodox and post-development approaches to the subject.

Current research projects:

- a monograph on conservatism and postcolonial politics;

- settler colonialism and indigeneity in Southern Africa.

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. Please feel free to contact me if you would like any advice on drawing up a PhD proposal or an application.

Current PhD supervision projects: Education and Democracy in the New South Africa; Impact of philantrophic and private donors on Irish foreign aid (DGov); The WTO and politics of economic liberalization in UAE; South African and Indian participation in the G20; US exits from military interventions; New epoch for social movements?

Recent/Selected Publications

  • Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation (London: Zed Books, 2010).
  • 'Understanding corporate governance reform in South Africa: Anglo-American divergence, the King Reports and hybridization', Business & Society (forthcoming; available online via SAGE OnlineFirst).
  • 'Can the "developmental state" save southern Africa?', Global Dialogue: An International Affairs Review Vol.12, No.1 (April 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 (March 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 (December 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 (December 2005), pp. 971-986.