Christopher Clapham (Africanist)
Christopher S. Clapham (born 1941) is a British Africanist and political scientist. He studied at Lancaster University and was a senior lecturer in politics (1974–89), and a professor of politics and international relations (1989-2002) there. Since 2002 Clapham is a professor, now emeritus, based at the Centre of African Studies of Cambridge University. He served as the editor of Journal of Modern African Studies from 1997 up to 2012. He was a president to the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 1994. Selected publications

Main publications
 Haile-Selassie's government, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1969
 Liberia and Sierra Leone: an essay in comparative politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, African Studies Series, 20, 1976, 2009 
 Foreign policy making in developing states, a comparative approach, Farnborough, England: Saxon House, 1977
 Private patronage and public power, political clientelism in the modern state, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982 
 The political dilemmas of military regimes, Christopher Clapham and George D. E. Philip, Eds., London: Routledge, 1985, 2021
 Third World politics: an introduction, London: Routledge, 1985, 1998
 Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988 
 Africa and the International System: the Politics of State Survival, Cambridge University Press, 1996
 African Guerrillas, Christopher Clapham, Ed., Oxford: James Currey, 1998
 Liberia and Sierra Leone: an Essay in Comparative Politics, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. African Studies Series 20, 2009
 Africa and the International System, Christopher Clapham, Thomas Biersteker, Chris Brown, Phil Cerny, Joseph Grieco. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Series: Studies in international relations, 2009
 The Horn of Africa: state formation and decay, London: Hurst, 2017

Further publications
 The caves of Sof Omar, Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Tourist Organization, 1967 
 Conflicts in Africa, London, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Series: Adelphi papers, no. 93, [1972] 
 Feudalism, modernisation, and the Ethiopian monarchy, Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, 1976
 The African state, Royal African Society. Conference on Sub-Saharan Africa, London: Royal African Association, 1991
 The African state in the post-cold war era, Magaliesberg, 1993
 Papers. African Studies Association of the UK: biennial conference, University of Lancaster, 5–7 September 1994. Christopher S. Clapham, Ed., [African Studies Association of the United Kingdom], [1994]
 Ethiopia and Eritrea. The politics of post-insurgency, Chapter 6 in Democracy and Political Change in Sub-Saharan Africa, John A. Wiseman, Ed., London: Routledge, 1995
 Boundary and territory in the Horn of Africa, in African boundaries: Barriers, conduits and opportunities, P. Nugent and A. I. Asiwaju, Eds., London: Pinter, 1996a: 237–250
 Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Angelique Haugerud, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown, Christopher S. Clapham, and Michael Gomez. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997  
 Being peacekept, Aldershot: Ashgate, in Peacekeeping in Africa, Oliver Furley and Roy May, Eds., London: Routledge Library Editions: Postcolonial Security Studies, 1998
 The foreign policies of Ethiopia and Eritrea, in African foreign policies. Stephen Wright, Ed., Boulder: Westview Press, 1999
 Regional integration in Southern Africa. Comparative international perspectives, Johannesburg, South Africa: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), 1999, 2001
 The decay and attempted reconstruction of African territorial statehood, Leipzig: Institut für Afrikanistik, 2004
 Big African States: Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan. Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, Greg Mills, Eds., University of the Witwatersrand: Wits University Press, 2006

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Academics of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of Lancaster University
British Africanists
Living people
1941 births
Presidents of the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom