Stephen Chan

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2009

 A. Books

 

(ed. With Cerwyn Moore) Approaches to International Relations, London: Sage

          

2009a. Volume I Traditional Approaches to International Relations: History, Debates and Issues

 

2009b. Volume II Critical Approaches to International Relations: Themes and Theories

 

2009c. Volume III Radical Approaches to International Relations: Interdisciplinary Theories

 

2009d. Volume IV Non-Western Approaches to International Relations

 

2009e. Including (with Cerwyn Moore) ‘Editors’ Introduction: Approaches to International Relations: The State of the Art and the Future of the Art’, in 2009a, above.

 

2009f. Including ‘A Story Beyond Telos: Redeeming the Shield of Achilles for a Realism of Rights in IR’, in 2009d, above: republication from 1999.

 

E. Print and electronic journalism

 

2009g. ‘Morgan Tsvangirai: no Mandela’, on http://blog.prospectblogs.com/2009/02/12/morgan-tsvangirai-no-mandela/

 

F.  Literary and other creative work

 

2009h. Dance (screening of pre-recorded dance [filmed by Cathy Quilligan and edited by Channing Walton] and performance of live dance): Merging Hard and Soft: Ancient Arts of War and Restraint at Collaging IR 2 curated by Christine Sylvester for the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New York, 17 February.

 

2009i. ‘Bonded for the future’, Nth Position, http://www.nthposition.com/bondedfor.php March

 

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2008

 

        A. Books

 

2008a. (ed. With Ulrich Arnswald and Peter Bauer) Hermeneutics & Politics: The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer in International Relations, Karlsruhe: Karlsruhe University Press.

 

B. Refereed full-length journal articles and book chapters

 

2008b. ‘Encountering the Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer’, Contemporary Review, 290:1688.

 

2008c. ‘Ten Caveats and One Sunrise in Our Contemplation of China and Africa’, in Chris Alden, Daniel Large and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (eds), China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and Continent Embrace, London: Hurst.

 

2008d. ‘After the Order to Civilization: Weightless International Relations and  the Burden of Unreduced Responsibility’, Interventions, 10:2. (Chinese version, with Cao Qing, World Economics and Politics [Shanghai], Issue 7.)

 

2008e. ‘The Oriental Martial Arts as Hybrid Totems, together with Orientalised Avatars’, (now to be included in a SUNY Press book, full details unavailable).

 

C Shorter articles

 

2008e. ‘Profile: Robert Mugabe – President of Zimbabwe’, The Africa Report, No.9, January-March.

 

2008f. ‘Naiveties and Africa: The case of Sudan’, in Paul Moorcraft (ed), Symposium on Chinese-Sudanese Relations, London: Centre for Foreign Policy Analysis.

 

2008g. ‘African Soldiers: seven types of ethical emotion’, New Zealand International Review, XXXIII:4.

 

2008h.  ‘The Tragedy of Tsvangirai’, Prospect, August.

 

Republished in NewZimbabwe.com, 1 August. http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/opinion339.18560.html

Republished as ‘MDC Handed Zanu PF Victory’ Zimbabwe Independent, 7 August

 

Republished in the Australian Financial Review, 22 August.

2008i.  ‘What is this thing called the decline of the west?’ eInternational Relations,   18 August.

 

2008j. ‘Morgan Tsvangirai: Prime Minister-designate of Zimbabwe’, The Africa Report, No.14, December-January.

 

D. Review

 

2008k.  Ian Taylor, China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise, in African Affairs, 107:427.

 

2008l. Vivienne Jabri, War and the transformation of global politics, in International Affairs, 84:5.

 

2008m. Amartya Sen, Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, in The Round Table, 399.

 

E.  Print and electronic journalism  

 

2008n. Contribution to ‘The Cultural Year 2007’, Prospect, January 2007. Unedited version on http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9975

 

2008o. ‘Throwdown in Polokwane’, Prospect, Issue 142, January 2008, website edition only: http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9977

 

2008p. ‘The Travelling Travails of Gordon Brown’ First Drafts – The Prospect Magazine Blog (Foreign Affairs category) (accessed through the Prospect-Magazine website), 16 January.

 

2008q. ‘Taking on the Lion King’, New Statesman web edition, 11 February, on http://www.newstatesman.com/200802110002 ,

 

2008r. ‘Darfur and the Olympics’, New Statesman web edition, 18 February, on http://www.newstatesman.com/200802180008

 

2008s. ‘Zimbabwe’s tense countdown’, New Statesman web edition, 3 February, on http://www.newstatesman.com/200804020003

 

2008t. ‘Exit Mugabe’, Prospect web edition, 3 April with an update 4 April on http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10124

 

2008u.  ‘Mbeki’s failure over Zimbabwe’, New Statesman web edition, 23 April on http://www.newstatesman.com/200804230005

 

2008v.  ‘Mugabe’s last stand’, New Zealand Listener, 26 April, also on http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3546/features/10951/mugabes_last_stand.html

 

2008w.  ‘The big steal in Zimbabwe’, Nth Position, May, on http://www.nthposition.com/thebigsteal.php

 

2008x.  ‘Challenging lessons’, comment for ‘1968: liberty or its illusion? 4’, on the Prospect Magazine website, May.

 

2008y.  ‘Dispatches from Zimbabwe’, July, on http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10268

 

2008z.  ‘Levy Mwanawasa’ (obituary), The Guardian, 20 August.

 

2008aa ‘Zimbabwe’s unholy alliance’, 20 August, on http://www.newstatesman.com/africa/2008/08/mugabe-zimbabwe-tsvangirai

 

2008bb ‘Croatia has moved on from its fascist past’, The Guardian, 18 September.

 

2008cc ‘A New Game for Zimbabwe’, in http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10400

           with summary, ‘A Slow Fade in Zimbabwe’, in Prospect, October.

 

2008dd’Shared space where God meets the Devil’ (interview), Sunday Mail (Nicosia), 9 November.

 

2008ee Contribution to ‘How should we rate 2008?’, Prospect web edition, http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10562

 

2008ff  ‘Education is a Human Right’, signatory with Lord Parekh et al, letter to the Times, 10 December.

F. Literary and other creative work

 

2008gg ‘The Prodigal Returns: A Sino-European Africanist Contemplates New Zealand’ (memoir), on http://www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/for/alumni/news/stephen-chan-memoir.cfm

 

2008hh ‘A Little Scene in Zagreb’ (novella), Nth Position, June, on http://www.nthposition.com/alittlescene.php

 

2008ii ‘A Little Assassination Down South’ (fiction), Nth Position, July on http://www.nthposition.com/alittleassassination.php

 

 

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2007

 

A. Books

 

2007a. Grasping Africa: A Tale of Achievement and Tragedy, London: I.B. Tauris.

 

2007b. (ed. with Ranka Primorac) Zimbabwe in Crisis: The International Response and the Space of Silence, London: Routledge (second, enlarged edition of 2006j, above).

 

B. Refereed full-length journal articles and book chapters

 

2007c. ‘Fanon: The Octogenarian of International Revenge, and the Suicide Bomber of Today’, Cooperation and Conflict, 42:2.

 

C. Shorter articles

 

2007d. ‘Canaan Banana’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press (electronic edition: www.oxforddnb.com)

 

2007e. ‘A Day in Iranian Diplomacy’, New Zealand International Review, XXXII:2.

 

2007f. ‘Nietzsche in Harare’, Prospect, May.

 

2007g. ‘Robert Gabriel Mugabe’, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.

 

2007h. ‘The SOAS of the Turbulent World’, in Catrine Clay (ed.), SOAS: A Celebration in Many Voices, London: Third Millennium.

 

2007i. ‘Foreword’, to Michael John Kidd, Beyond the Breakwater, Auckland: Ohlah.

 

2007j. ‘Back to the Future’, in Gugulethu Moyo and Mark Ashurst (eds.), The Day After Mugabe: Prospects for Change in Zimbabwe, London: Africa Research Institute (revised version of 2007r, below).

 

2007k. ‘Breakthrough in Harare’, Prospect, November.

 

D. Reviews

 

2007l.  Reinhard Sander and Bernth Lindfors (eds), Ngugi wa Thiongo Speaks, in African Research and Documentation, Issue 102.

 

2007m. Xolela Mangcu (ed), The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration, in African Research and Documentation, Issue 103.

 

2007n. Palestine Film Festival, in The Middle East in London, 4:1, June.

 

E. Print and electronic journalism  

 

2007o. ‘The Big Question’, opinion-piece in Prospect, 21 February.

 

2007p. ‘Farewell Robert Mugabe’, 20 March.

 

2007q. ‘Go Hang! But is the Dictator Himself Hamstrung?’, 3 April.

 

2007r. ‘Back to the Future – a new Zimbabwe’, web version for Mail & Guardian in South Africa, 12 April, and print version in South Africa and Zimbabwe, 13 April.

 

2007s. ‘A new, humble Zimbabwe’, ditto, web and print, 19 April.

 

2007t. ‘In Search of British Values’, opinion-piece in Prospect, October.

 

2007u. ‘Zimbabwe watcher set for Mugabe’s end’, interview-article in the New Zealand Herald, 27 October.

 

2007v. ‘O Zimbabwe’, interview-article in the New Zealand Listener, 3-9 November.

 

F.         Literary and other creative work

 

2007w. ‘Monkey’s Biographer writes from Beijing’, Nth Position Online Magazine, October.  

 

2007x. ‘The Negotiator’s Letter from Beijing’, Nth Position Online Magazine, November.

 

2007y. ‘Letters from Washington’, Nth Position Online Magazine, November.  

 

2007z. ‘The South African Storm Season and Zimbabwe’, Nth Position Online Magazine, December.

 

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2006

 

A. Books

 

(ed) with Cerwyn Moore, Theories of International Relations, London: Sage.

 

2006a. Volume I, Approaches to International Relations: Realism.

 

2006b. Volume II, Approaches to International Relations: Pluralism.

 

2006c. Volume III, Approaches to International Relations: Structuralism.

 

2006d. Volume IV, Contemporary Reflexive Approaches in International Relations.

 

2006e-h. including (with Cerwyn Moore) Introductions to each volume.

 

2006i. including ‘A New Triptych for International Relations in the 21st Century’ (republication of 2003d, above) in 2006d, above.

 

2006j. Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai, Paolo Alto: Academica Press.

 

2006k. (ed. with Ranka Primorac) Zimbabwe and the Space of Silence, special issue of The Round Table, Issue 384, April.

 

Including

2006l. (with Ranka Primorac), ‘Introduction: Zimbabwe and the Space of Silence.

 

2006m. (with Hasu Patel), ‘Zimbabwe’s Foreign Policy: A Conversation’.

 

C. Shorter articles

 

2006n. ‘Mugabe’s Last Gasp’, Prospect, June.

 

2006o. ‘Scramble for Africa’, Prospect, September.

 

E. Print and electronic journalism  

 

2006p. (with Ranka Primorac) ‘African Art in Paris’, The Zimbabwean, 17-23 August.

 

2006q. (Interview) ‘A new Colonialism? Theory and Substance and Cold War Thinking’, Globe Weekly (Beijing), 29 October.

 

There follow syndicated newspaper articles intended for Third World outlets of which no publication records were kept.

 

2006r. ‘Letter from Zagreb’.

 

2006s. ‘The Wagon-Train of Tony Blair: The British Cabinet Reshuffle of May 2006’.

 

2006t. ‘Twelve reasons why the Israeli invasion of Lebanon is wrong.

 

Letters to newspapers

 

2006u. On the persecution of the Bahai in Iran, The Times Higher, 30 May.

 

2006v. Against the renewal of Trident, The Guardian, 27 November.

 

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2005

 

A. Books

 

2005a. Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War,

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

2005b. Fuori dal Male: Nuove politiche internazionali e vecchie doctrine di Guerra, Turin: Einaudi.

 

2005c. Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai, Harare: samizdat (underground) edition prepared for the March 2005 Zimbabwean parliamentary elections.

 

B. Refereed full-length journal articles and book chapters

 

2005d. ‘Trauma and the Idea of Unreconciled Citizenship in Zimbabwe:

           The novels of Vera and Kanengoni’, Third World Quarterly, 26:2.

 

2005e. ‘An Ornithology of Secretaries-General: The Commonwealth and

           Its Leadership’, The Round Table, 380.

 

C. Shorter articles

 

2005f. ‘The Old Fox Eludes the Hunt’, The World Today, 61:4, April.

 

2005g. ‘Endgame or Gambit in Zimbabwe’, Contemporary Review, 287:1674.

 

2005h. (with Ranka Primorac) ‘Angus Shaw’, in www.LitEncyc.com.

 

D. Reviews

 

2005i. David Harold-Barry (ed), Zimbabwe: The Past is the Future, in British Zimbabwe Society Newsletter, May.

 

2005j. Thandika Mkandawire (ed), African Intellectuals: Rethinking Politics, Language, Gender and Development, in African Research and Documentation, 99.

 

E Print and electronic journalism  

 

2005k. ‘A Commonwealth of the Margins’ syndicated feature appearing in a variety of Third World newspapers, e.g. Zimbabwe Independent, 18 March.

 

2005l. (Interview) ‘Will the sun set on the Commonwealth?’,  Sunday Tribune(Sarawak), 6 March.

 

2005m. (Interview) ‘There’s too much short-term thinking in Africa’, Sunday Post (Lusaka), 10 April.

 

2005n. (with Ranka Primorac) ‘Yvonne Vera: Writer and Critic of the Mugabe Regime’ (obituary), The Independent (London), 15 April.

 

2005o. ‘Zimbabwe’s elections: An Objective Account’, syndicated feature appearing in a variety of Third World newspapers, e.g. Saturday Post (Lusaka), 16 April.

 

2005p. ‘What does Europe Want to Do with Africa?’, syndicated feature appearing in a variety of Third World and other newspapers, e.g. Kathorus Mail (South Africa), June; Finn (Com) Daily Record (Falklands), 1 June.

 

2005q. ‘Letter from London: Africa and the Bombs’, syndicated feature appearing in a variety of Third World and other newspapers, e.g. The Post (Lusaka) 13 July; The Zimbabwean (London), 22-28 July.

 

2005r. ‘Bloomsbury and the Bombs’, The Times Higher (London), 15 July.

‘Bloomsbury i bombe’, Le Monde Diplomatique (Croatian edition), August.

 

2005s. ‘Iran and Nuclear Apartheid’, syndicated feature appearing in a variety of Third World newspapers, e.g. The Sunday Mail (Malaysia), no record kept of date.

 

2005t. ‘Letter from Ephesus: A Lesson in Multicultural Tolerance’, syndicated feature, but no record was kept of its newspapers of publication.

 

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2004

A. Books

 

2004a. Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War, London: I.B. Tauris.

B. Refereed full-length journal articles and book chapters

 

2004b. (with Ranka Primorac) ‘The Imagination of Land and the Reality of Seizure: Zimbabwe and Complex Reinvention’, Columbia University Journal of International Affairs, 57:2.

 

C .Shorter articles

 

2004c. ‘Abuja and After: The Case for Change in the Commonwealth Secretariat’, The Round Table, 374.

 

2004d. ‘Evil and its Discontents: a 21st Century Bestiary’, Nth Position Online Magazine.

 

D. Reviews

 

2004e. Peter Wilson, The International Thought of Leonard Woolf, in The Round Table, 377.

 

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2003

 

A. Books

 

2003a. Robert Mugabe: A life of Power and Violence, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

 

B. Refereed full-length journal articles and book chapters

 

2003b. ‘Reliving the Boxer Uprising; or, the Restricted Meaning of Civilisation’, in Peter Mandaville and Andrew Williams (eds.), Meaning and International Relations, London: Routledge.

 

2003c. ‘The Performativity of Death: Yukio Mishima and a Fusion for International Relations’, Borderlands, 2:2.

 

2003d. ‘A New Triptych for International Relations in the 21st Century: Beyond Waltz and Beyond Lacan’s Antigone, with a Note on the Falun Gong of China’, Global Society, 17:2.

 

2003e. ‘A problem for IR: How Shall we Narrate the Saga of Bestial Man?’, Global Society, 17:4.

 

C. Shorter articles

 

2003f. ‘Zambia: scaling back the rot’, New Zealand International Review, XXVIII:2.

 

2003g. ‘Zimbabwe: Land and Starvation’, The World Today, 59:3.

 

2003h. ‘Mugabe: Right and Wrong’, African Affairs, 102.

 

D.         Reviews

 

2003i. Edwin G. Pulleyblank, Central Asia and Non-Chinese Peoples of Ancient China, in Central Eurasian Studies Review, 2:1.