E-mail: ajl2@sun.ac.za

Tel: +27 (0)21 8082115

Qualifications:
BA Hons, MA, DPhil (Stellenbosch).

Teaching specialisation:
Global Political Economy, Africa's International Relations 

Research interests:
The political economy of Southern Africa within the dynamics of globalisation. 

Current research projects:

An empirical and critical application of the political economist, Robert Cox's, macro theory of change to focus on the behaviour of marginalised social forces in Southern Africa. This involves generating hypotheses about these groups (in the "second" economy) derived from Coxian Critical Theory and subjecting them to the survey data generated by the Afrobarometer project. He is also engaged in a theoretical evaluation of Cox's work with the aim of (re)locating his contribution to IR/GPE theory.

Recent publications:

“Emancipating the Dead? Revisiting Changing Notions of Human Security in Southern Africa” (with L Thompson) in Poku, N. and C. Thomas (eds.) Development and Security in Southern Africa. .Greenwood Press: Westport. (2001).

“Critical Theory and the Southern African Region: The Case for a Coxian Approach” in Vale, P. and Oden, B. and Swatuk, L. (eds). Understanding New Orders between Old Borders: International Theory and Southern Africa’s Future. OUP: London (2001).

“The Evolution of the Global Political Economy” (with L. Thompson) in McGowan, P.J. and P. Nel (eds.) Power, Wealth and Global Equity (Second Edition). UCT Press: Cape Town (2002).

“Southern Africa” (with RB. Mattes) in Kolodziej, E. (ed.). in A Force Profonde: The Power, Politics, and Promise of Human Rights. University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia (2003).

Marginalisation in Southern Africa: Tranformation from Below? 2004. Afrobarometer Working Paper No. 37. Michigan State University: East Lansing, Michigan.

"Social Forces in Southern Africa: Transformation from Below?".  Forthcoming in Journal of Modern African Studies.