Chris Alden

Chris Alden is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Director of LSE IDEAS, the LSE’s foreign policy think-tank. He is author/co-author of numerous books, including Apartheid’s Last Stand – the Rise and Fall of the South African Security State (1996), Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State (2003), South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy (2003), China in Africa (2007), China Returns to Africa (Hurst 2008), China and Africa – Building Peace and Security Cooperation on the Continent (2017), New Directions in Africa-China Studies (2019) as well as having written numerous articles in internationally recognised journals. His areas of expertise include foreign policy analysis; China and Africa; South African foreign policy; and post-conflict reconstruction.