Visitors
2012 - Professor Amitav Acharya
The Nelson Mandela Visiting Professor of International Relations Professor Amitav Acharya teaches to postgraduates on Comparative Regionalism in May 2012.
Amitav Acharya is professor of International Relations and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. He also chairs American University’s ASEAN Studies Center. In his capacity as the UNESCO Chair, he directs Transnational Challenges and Emerging Nations Dialogue (TRANSCEND), a global network on universities and think-tanks on multilateralism and the governance of transnational issues.
His previous appointments include Professor of Global Governance at the University of Bristol, Professor at York University, Toronto, Fellow of the Harvard University Asia Center, and Fellow of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Among Professor Acharya’s major works are Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia (Routledge 2001, 2009); Whose Ideas Matter? (Cornell, 2009); and The Making of Southeast Asia (ISEAS, and Cornell, 2012). He has published articles in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, and World Politics, which are the top four academic journals in the field of international relations, as well as in Journal of Asian Studies, the foremost journal in Asian studies. His op-eds have appeared in foreignaffairs.com, NPR.org, International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, Japan Times, Jakarta Post, Bangkok Post, Straits Times, Indian Express, South China Morning Post, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Times of India and he has been interviewed by CNN International, BBC World Service, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Radio Australia, and Al Jazeera TV.
Professor Acharya has held a number of other appointments, including Politics Group Visitor at Nuffield College, Oxford, ASEM Chair in Regional Integration at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and Direk Jayanama Visiting Professor at Thammsat University, Bangkok. He has also held visiting professorships at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. Since 2005, he has been a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
In September 2011, Professor Acharya was awarded the prestigious Nelson Mandela Visiting Professorship in International Relations by the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa for the years 2012 and 2013.
2011- Dr Elaheh Rostani-Povey
Dr Elaheh Rostani-Povey is a Visiting Senior Mellon Fellow to the department. In the first semester of 2011 Dr Rostani-Povey taught a postgraduate course on "Women, Gender in Islam with special reference to Iran, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine and Egypt". Here Dr Elaheh Rostani-Povey, the Head of Department, Professor Paul-Henri Bischoff share in the weekly departmental "Friday coffee and cake" with Masters, Honours and Diploma students, February 2011.
Dr Elaheh Rostani-Povey
Dr Elaheh Rostani-Povey as Visiting Senior Mellon Fellow to the department on 4th March 2011 presented a seminar paper entitled "The emergence of indigenous women's movements in selected countries of the Middle East" to the department's Friday lunchtime series. Here Dr Elaheh Rostani-Povey is seen giving the paper, the seminar being chaired by Ms Siphokazi Magadla, lecturer in International Relations in the department.
2011- Mr John Rose
Mr John Rose is a Visiting Senior Mellon Fellow to the department. In the first semester of 2011 John Rose taught a postgraduate course on "An Introduction to the main themes of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Here John Rose shares in the weekly departmental "Friday coffee and cake" with Masters, Honours and Diploma students, February 2011.
2011- Professor Ken Good
Professor Ken Good, formerly Professor of Government at the University of Botswana specialises on Democratisation Studies. Professor Good has taught second and third year students on The Study of Democracy. His publications include: Paying for Politics: "Party Funding and Political Change in South Africa and the Global South"; "The Presidency of Gen. Ian Khama: The Militarisation of the Botswana Miracle" and "Predominance and Private Party Funding in Botswana".
2010- Professor Zhenjiang Zhang
Professor Zhenjiang Zhang has taught postgraduate students on Chinese Foreign Policy in 2010 and 2007. Prof Zhang from the Department of International Relations at Jinan University in Guangzhou obtained his PhD from Nanjing University. His research interests include American-British economic relations in the 1930s, Asian Regionalism and Chinese Foreign Policy.
Prof Zhenjiang Zhang, Prof Paul Bischoff & the
Dean of the International Office, Professor
Marius Vermaak (2007)
2011- Wamkele Mene
Wamkele Mene holds the position of Counsellor: Economic at South Africa’s Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva. In this role, he is responsible for negotiations in Trade in Services, Intellectual Property and Dispute Settlement.
Prior to taking up the posting in Geneva, Wamkele held the position of Director: Trade in Services at the International Trade & Economic Development Division of the Department of Trade & Industry, in Pretoria. As the head of the directorate, he guided South Africa’s overall participation in multilateral, bilateral and regional trade negotiations. Being South Africa’s Lead Negotiator on services trade at the time, Wamkele provided strategic and policy leadership in all trade in services negotiations that South Africa was involved in.
Wamkele routinely represents the South African government in various informal and formal discussions at the UN, the WTO, the OECD and other multilateral fora. He has published articles on the subject of developing legal disciplines for international trade in services. He is also a regular guest speaker at academic institutions, where he lectures on the regulation of the international trading system.
He is a graduate of Rhodes University and the Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy at the University of London in the UK.
Wamkele Mene(from left to right) Professor Paul Bischoff and Ms Siphokazi Magadla (from the Department of Political & International Studies), Ms Niki Cattaneo (from Economics & Economic History), and Mr Wamkele Mene
(Counsellor: Economic at South Africa's Permanent Mission to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva) (2011).
Prof P. Bischoff, Ms Morgenie Pillay & Mr Wamkele Mene
2008-2011 Paul-Simon Handy
Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Security Studies teaches the Diploma Students on "International Peacekeeping and Africa". Dr Paul Simon Handy is here seen with the Diploma Class of 2008.
Dr Paul Simon-Handy
2008- Dr Peter Kagwanja
Dr Peter Kagwanja of the HSRC taught on African and Political Economy in Africa to the Diploma in African IR and Peacekeeping in 2007 and 2008.
Dr Peter Kagwanja
2006-2008 Dr Martin Rupiya
Senior Researcher at the Institute of SecurityStudies teaches the Diploma Students on "Preventive Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution" Dr Rupiya is here seen with the Diploma Class of 2007.
Dr Martin Rupiya
2007- Dr Chandra Kumar
Doc Fellow Chandra and Dr Tony Fluxman
Farewell to Post Doc Fellow Dr Chandra Kumar who also taught a course on "Understanding US Foreign Policy" to third year undergraduates. Here he is seen at his farewell lunch with Dr Tony Fluxman, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and International Studies
2007- Professor Andre du Toit
Professor Andre du Toit
Professor Andre du Toit from UCT with Professors Bischoff and Vale.
