Recent Publications

• Angola Matters to the US. So What's the Problem? CNN.com, May 2013
• A Decade of African Peace and Security Architecture, International Affairs, January 2013
• From Sea to Shining Sea? Africa's Expanding Energy Landscape, Article, Oxford Energy Forum Journal, November 2012
• 'The EU Strategic Framework for the Horn of Africa: a critical assessment of impact and opportunities', Report for the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, with Ahmed Soliman and Jason Mosley, September 2012 
• 'China's Angolan Oil Deals 2003–11', with Markus Weimer, in M. Power and A.C. Alves (Eds.), China and Angola: A Marriage of Convenience?, Pambazuka Press, 2012
• 'Review article: The effectiveness of UN and EU sanctions: lessons for the twenty-first century', International Affairs, 88/4, July 2012
• 'Piracy, not China, is the Real Issue in the Indian Ocean', The World Today, February 2012
• 'Portugal, the EU, and Africa', in Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman (eds), The EU and Africa: from Eurafrique to Afro-Europa, Hurst & Co, 2012, pp.365-385.
• 'Protecting Civilians: The Politics of Intervention and Non-Intervention in Africa', in Eva Gross, Daniel Hamilton, Claudia Major, Henning Rieke (eds), Preventing Conflict. Managing Crisis: European and American Perspectives, Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 2011, pp.55-60
• 'Ten Years of CSDP Experimentation in Africa: Prospects for the Joint Africa EU Strategy Action Plan 2011-2013', in Ludovica Marchi Balossi-Restelli (ed), An EU Innovative External Action?, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp.269-293
• The Effects of Oil Companies' Activities on the Environment, Health and Development in sub-Saharan Africa, with Heike Baumüller, Elizabeth Donnelly, and Markus Weimer, European Parliament Committee on Development, 2011
• 'Africa and the United Kingdom: Labour's Legacy, May 1997-May 2010', in Tony Chafer and Gordon Cumming (eds), From Rivalry to Partnership? New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa, Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2011, pp.25-41
• Implementing the EU Concept on Mediation: Learning from the Cases of Sudan and the Great Lakes, Report for the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, with Roger Middleton and Paul Melly, June 2011
• 'Why the Surge of Renewed Interest in Africa? Options for New Zealand', in Brian Lynch (ed), Africa: A Continent on the Move, New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2011, pp.63-75
• Angola: Assessing Risks to Stability, with Markus Weimer, CSIS Africa Program Report, June 2011
• 'India's Security Concerns in the Western Indian Ocean', in Emma Mawdsley and Gerard McCann, India in Africa: Changing Geographies of Power, pp.187-203, Pambazuka Press, 2011
• 'Angola: Clearing the Killing Fields', Public Service Review, Issue 22, May 2011
• 'Spain, the EU and West Africa: Challenges and Opportunities', with Manuel López Blanco and Luis Simón, Fundación Alternativas, April 2011
• 'West African Blood Diamonds Recognise no Borders', in Alexander Ramsbotham and I William Zartman (eds), Paix sans Frontiers: Building Peace across Borders, Accord, Issue 22, 2011, pp. 90-93
• India's Africa Engagement: Prospects for the 2011 India-Africa Forum, Chatham House Programme Paper, December 2010
• Rhetoric from Brussels and Reality on the Ground: the EU and Security in Africa, International Affairs, September 2010
• An Uncertain Future: Oil Contracts and Stalled Reform in São Tomé e Príncipe, Human Rights Watch, August 2010
• 'G8 and EU Support to African Efforts in Peace and Security: a European Perspective', in Nicoletta Pirozzi (ed) Ensuring Peace and Security in Africa: Implementing the New Africa-EU Partnership, Quarderni IAI (Instituto Affari Internazionali), May 2010
• 'Sub-Saharan Africa: Providing Strategic Vision or Fire-Fighting', with Tom Cargill, in Robin Niblett (ed), America and a Changed World: a Question of Leadership, Wiley-Blackwell/Chatham House, 2010
• 'South Africa's Politics of Peace and Security in Africa', South African Journal of International Affairs, vol. 17, no.1, April 2010
• 'The Impact of UN Sanctions and their Panel of Experts: Sierra Leone and Liberia', with Tom Cargill, International Journal, vol. 64, issue 1, Winter 2009-2010
• 'China and India in Angola', (with Indira Campos), in Fantu Cheru and Cyril Obi (eds), The Rise of China and India in Africa, Zed Press, 2010
• 'Thirst for African Oil' in Resurgent Continent? Africa and the World, LSE Ideas Strategic Update, March 2010
• 'China's Place in Angola's Foreign Policy', in Sharon T. Freeman (ed.), China, Africa, and the African Diaspora, All American Small Business Exporters Association Inc., 2009
• 'Obama's Sub-Saharan Africa Policy: Implications for Europe,' (with Tom Cargill), in Alvaro Vasconcelos and Marcin Zaborowski (eds), The Obama Moment: European and American Perspectives, The European Institute for Security Studies, 2009
• Thirst for African Oil: Asian National Oil Companies in Nigeria and Angola, (with others), Chatham House Report, August 2009
• 'India's Strategy in Africa: Looking Beyond the India-Africa Forum', South African Yearbook of International Affairs 2008/9, SAIIA, 2009
• Well Oiled: Oil and Human Rights in Equatorial Guinea, (with Arvind Ganesan and Carly Tubbs), Human Rights Watch, 2009
• 'Angola: Thirty Years of Dos Santos', (with Markus Weimer), Review of African Political Economy, no. 120, vol. 36, June 2009
• 'Angola and the Global Economic Downturn', (with Markus Weimer), Portuguese Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2009
• 'Beyond Bullets and Ballots: The Reintegration of UNITA in Angola', (with Bereni Oruitemeka), in M Berdal and D Ucko (eds), Reintegrating Armed Groups After Conflict: Politics, Violence and Transition, Routledge, 2009
• 'Au-DeLà Du Pétro-militarisme: La Strategie Exterieure Angolaise D'Après-Guerre', (with Phillipe Le Billion et al), Politique Africaine, no.110, June 2008
• 'Bullets to Ballots: The Reintegration of UNITA in Angola', (with Bereni Oruitemeka), Conflict, Security & Development, vol.8, no. 2, June 2008
• 'Engagement with the African Indian Ocean Rim States', (with Bereni Oruitemeka), in India in Africa, South African Journal of International Affairs, vol.14, no.2, April 2008
• 'Angola and China: A Pragmatic Partnership', (with Indira Campos), CSIS Working Paper, March 2008
• 'Options for the EU to Support the African Peace and Security Architecture', (with Roger Middleton), European Parliament's Directorate General External Policies of the Union, February 2008
• 'Can UN Arms Embargoes in Africa Be Effective?', International Affairs, vol.83, no.6, November 2007
• 'China in Africa: A Mixed Blessing?', Current History, vol. 106, no. 700, May 2007
• 'Estudo de caso: UK Policy Toward Angola and Mozambique,' in Fernando Cardoso (ed) Diplomacia, Cooperação e Negócios: o Papel dos Actores Externos em Angola e Moçambique, Instituto de Estudos Estratégicos e Internacionais, 2007
• 'Dousing the Flames of Resource Wars', in The Politics of Africa's Resources, South African Journal of International Affairs vol.13, no.2, December 2006
• 'Sanctions and Enforcement', (with Holger Anders) in UNIDIR etal ed, Developing a Mechanism to Prevent Illicit Brokering in Small Arms and Light Weapons: Scope and Implications, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 2006
• 'The Scramble for Resources: African Case Studies' in China in Africa, South African Journal of International Affairs, vol.13, Summer/Autumn 2006
• ''Le Monde Doit Nous Jugar Sur L'Afrique": L'Heritage Africaine De Tony Blair' (with Tom Cargill) in Politique Africaine, no.101, March-April 2006
• Combating Light Weapons Proliferation in West Africa', International Affairs, vol.81, no.2, March 2005
• 'Angola: Forty Years of War', P. Batchelor, P & K Kingma (eds) Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa, vol. 2, Ashgate, 2004
• 'Engine of War: Resources, Greed and the Predatory State', (with Arvind Ganesan) in Human Rights and Armed Conflict: Human Rights Watch World Report 2004, Human Rights Watch, 2004
• 'Monitoring UN Sanctions in Africa: The Role of Panels of Experts', in Trevor Findlay (ed) Verification Yearbook 2003, London Vertic, 2004
• 'Angola: New Hopes for Civil Society?', (with Steve Kibble), Review of African Political Economy, vol. 28, no. 90, 2001
• 'Mercenaries, Human Rights and Legality', in A-F Musah and J Kayode Fayemi (eds.), Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma, Pluto Press, 2000
• 'Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process', Human Rights Watch, 1999