PhD Supervision

Students Supervised to Successful Completion

  • Steven Davies (United Kingdom)
    ‘The Political Economy of Land Tenure in Ethiopia’, 2008.
  • Inga Jacobs (South Africa)
    ‘Norms and Transboundary Co-operation in Africa: The Case of the Orange-Senqu and Nile Rivers’, 2010.
  • Gladys Mokhawa (Botswana)
    ‘The Regionalisation of Security and the Reconstruction of a Region: SADC’s Critical and Ironic Security Dynamics’, 2010.
  • Walter Lotze (South Africa)
    ‘Interventionist Norm Development: Darfur and the Responsibility to Protect as a Norm Too Far?’, 2010.
  • Sarah Whiteford (Canada)
    ‘Dividing Lines, Converging Aims: A Moral Analysis of Micro-regionalism in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire’, 2011.
  • Steven Kuo (South Africa)
    ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper? An Examination of the Chinese Model of Peacebuilding in Liberia’, 2012.
  • Heidi Østbø Haugen (Norway)
    ‘Changing Markets from Below: Trade and Movement of People Between China and Africa’, 2013.
  • Honita Cowaloosur (Mauritius)
    ‘Reinscribing Dependency: The Political Economy of Mauritius JinFei Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone’, 2014.
  • Julian Graef (USA)
    ‘Peacebuilding as Capacity-building in Rural Liberia’, 2014.
  • Muhammad Danial Azman (Malaysia)
    ‘Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding in Africa: In Search of Justice and Reconciliation Following Post-Election Violence in Kenya’, 2014.
  • Babatunde Afolabi (Nigeria)
    ‘The Politics of Engagement: Diaspora and Religious Actors’ Involvement in the Liberian Peace Process’, 2015.
  • Tim Steinecke (Germany)
    ‘National Oil Companies and State Actors: An Assessment of Petronas and ONGC in the Foreign Policy of Malaysia and India Towards Sudan and South Sudan’, 2015.
  • Cheng Zhangxi (China)
    ‘“Friendship” in China’s Foreign Aid to Africa: Case Studies from Ghana and Sierra Leone’, 2015.
  • Athanasios Stathopoulos (Greece)
    ‘The Logic of State Weakness in Secessionism: State Formation in Somaliland and the International System’, 2016.
  • Simon Taylor (South Africa)
    ‘On Combatants: Towards a Clausewitzian Typology of Combatants in Conflicts in Africa, As Applied to the Sierra Leonean Civil War’, 2016.
  • Katharina Newbery (United Kingdom)
    ‘Seeking Ontological Security in the Horn of Africa: Biographical Narratives and Imagining Peace in Ethiopia’s Engagement in Somalia’, 2019.
  • Aneshimode Leslie Adogame (Nigeria)
    ‘An Exploration of the Implementation of Global REDD+ Policy in Nigeria’s Neopatrimonial Context: Implications for Sustainable Development’, 2020.
  • Tim Zajontz (Germany)
    ‘The Chinese Infrastructural Fix in Africa: A Strategic-Relational Analysis of Zambia’s “Road Bonanza” and the Rehabilitation of TAZARA’, 2020.
  • Sergio Gomes (Mozambique)
    ‘Risk Propensity in Mozambique’s Energy Diplomacy: A Quest for Energy Security or Regime Security?, 2020.