Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate at the Wolfgang Goethe Univerity of Frankfurt, Germany
Areas of Specialty
International Relations
The Global South
Courses Taught
Global South
Global Issues
Comparative Politics
International Relations
International Political Economy
Political Geography
African Politics
Research Interests
My research focuses on the dynamics of change in international politics
I explore how, through specific driving forces, the dynamics of history recurrently produce new paradigms and herald new epochs. I examine state actors’ responses to the exigencies of incoming new epochal paradigms and their differential rates of success, which produce the equally recurrent epochal shift in the hierarchy of world powers.
The Pulse of China’s Grand Strategy. Routledge, 2022
The Rise of China and International Relations Theory. Peter Lang Publishers, New York, 2020
The Dynamics of Change in Modern World Politics. Lexington Books, 2018
Global Issues in the Context of Space Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland, 2016
China in Africa: Articulating China’s Africa Policy (Africa World Press and Re Sea Press, Trenton, New Jersey, 2003)
Global Liberalism and its Casualties. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, 2008
Die Rationalitaet der Moderne und die Kulture in Sub-Sahara Africa Peter Lang Publishers, Frankfurt, 1999
Forthcoming
The Sunshower (A political novel)
Select Book Chapters
China’s Grand Strategy in The Belt and Road: Reality: Expectations. Vladimir N. Cvetković, ed. University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2020, pp.11-31
China’s Grand Strategy in The Belt and Road: Reality: Expectations. Vladimir N. Cvetković, ed. University of Belgrade, Serbia, 2020, pp.11-31
Globalization and Marginalization in Essay in Paradoxes of Global and Local Forces Eds: Olufemi Vaughan, Macheta Wright, Charles Small. Ibadan Nigeria, Safe Academic Press, 2005
Wuerzeln und Konfliktgruenden in Afrika in: Minoritaet, Autonomie und Selbstbestimmung. Evangelische Afademische Press, Locum, Germany, October 1996, p.67-84
Book Reviews
Grieco, Ikenberry, Mastanduno: Introduction to International Relations: Questions, Connections, and Perspectives (Forth Coming, Cengage Publisher)
Ian Taylor: China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise. Routledge, London, 2006. for the African Studies Review, issues of September 2008, Volume 51,#2, from Rutgers University Press
Henning Melber (editor): China in Africa. A compilation on China’s Policy in Africa Essays by Margaret C. Lee, Henning Melber, Sanusha Naidu, Ian Taylor, published by the Nordiska Africainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden, 2007
Seminar Series
Particular Features of China’s Investments in Africa. Cornell University Symposium, April, 21-23, 2023
Industrialization as a Model of Development Revisited, Cornell University, October 2020
The History of China’s Involvement in Africa: A Reflection of China’s Own Development, Cornell University, September 2017
