Alex De Waal

Author: Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal

Alex de Waal is Research Professor and Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He was the founding editor of the African Arguments book series. He is the author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa: Money, War and the Business of Power.

Africa's Foreign Engagements African Arguments Book Series Books and Controversies Debating Ideas Reviews Sudan Texts and Contexts

By Alex de Waal
June 25, 2020
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Africa and Israel: Re-Opening the Debate

Israel’s security strategy for Africa is a fusion of the principles of transactional politics the transnational political marketplace

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Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Public Health

By Alex de Waal
April 16, 2020
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كوفيد-19 في أفريقيا: إعرف الوباء، واعمل على سياسته

Arabic translation of Alex de Waal's Covid19 in Africa: Know your Pandemic, Act on its Politics

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Africa's Foreign Engagements Covid-19 COVID-19 Debating Ideas Economies and Societies Politics and Political Economy Public Health

By Alex de Waal
March 31, 2020
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COVID-19 in Africa: “Know your Epidemic, Act on its Politics.”

COVID-19 in Africa: Know your Epidemic, Act on Its Politics

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Covid-19 Debating Ideas Public Health

By Alex de Waal
March 19, 2020
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Can There Be A Democratic Public Health? From HIV/AIDS to COVID-19

Can there be a democratic public health? From HIV/AIDS to Covid-19

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Debating Ideas Decolonisation Texts and Contexts

By Alex de Waal
March 16, 2020
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Introducing ‘African Arguments-Debating Ideas’

Alex De Waal (Director at the World Peace Foundation and editor at African Arguments) introduces the ethos of Debating Ideas - the latest addition to the ...

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Editor's Picks Egypt Red Sea Sudan

By Alex de Waal
August 1, 2019
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Cash and contradictions: On the limits of Middle Eastern influence in Sudan

Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt have been heavily involved in Sudan following al-Bashir’s downfall. But not everything is going their way. In Sudan, the revolutionaries ...

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Politics Red Sea Sudan Top story

By Alex de Waal
April 12, 2019
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A Cruel April in the Sudan Spring?

The new rivalries at the top. An aborted revolution. And the international actors jostling for dominance. On 11 April, following six days of protests, a cabal ...

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Red Sea Top story

By Alex de Waal
July 11, 2018
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Beyond the Red Sea: A new driving force in the politics of the Horn

Relations between the Middle East and Horn of Africa have long been neglected. But now they are changing everything. This is the first part of The Thin ...

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Politics

By Alex de Waal
May 6, 2016
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How to steal from Africa, all perfectly legally

When UK PM David Cameron opens the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May, we should be aware that the greatest fraud perpetrated on the majority of the world’s ...

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Politics

By Alex de Waal
April 20, 2016
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The Tana Security Forum: In need of a reboot

One of the few spaces in which an African security agenda could be debated frankly has been damaged, but it can be brought back to life. ...

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