UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Department Staff

Administrative Staff

Hilda Potgieter - Departmental Administrative Officer

Office Hours: 08h00 to 16h30

Room Number: CB116A, Central Block

Telephone: 21 (0)11 717 4382

Fax: 27 (0) 11 717 4399

Email: Social.IR@wits.ac.za or Hilda.Potgieter@wits.ac.za

Hazel Hloma - Administrative Assistant

Office Hours: 08h30 to 16h30

Room Number: CB123, Central Block

Telephone: 011 717 4386

Fax: 011 717 4399

Email: hazel.hloma@wits.ac.za

Teaching Staff

Prof. Gilbert M. Khadiagala

PhD (Johns Hopkins University)

Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Head of Department
Contact details:  

Gilbert.Khadiagala@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717 4381
CB116A

Courses:  International Political Economy of Development; International Dimensions of Human Security; Comparative Peace Processes; Conflict Resolution in Africa.

Area of Specialisation:

  • African International Relations; African Politics; African Political Thought;
  • Mediation and Conflict Resolution;  Regional Security (Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes Region, Eastern Africa); Regional Integration;  Euro-African Relations;
  • Democracy and Governance; Elections and Electoral Violence; Leadership in Post-Conflict Contexts;

Research Interests:  Mediation of African Conflicts; Regional Integration in Africa; Peace-Building and Post-conflict Reconstruction; Elections and Electoral Violence in Africa;  The Politics of Transitional Justice.

Recent Publications:

  • Eastern Africa: Security and the Legacy of Fragility. New York: International Peace Institute, Africa Program Working Paper Series, October 2008
  • Conflict Management and African Politics: Ripeness, Bargaining, and Mediation (co-edited with Terrence Lyons). New York: Routledge, 2008
  • Meddlers or Mediators? African Interveners in Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2007
  • Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace (co-authored with Ruth Iyob). Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2006
  • Security Dynamics in Africa’s Great Lakes Region (edited). Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2006

Dr. Jacqui De Matos Ala

PhD
Contact details:

Jacqueline.DeMatosAla @wits.ac.za
27 (0)11 717 4388
CB115

Courses: Undergraduate: Introduction to International Relations; Postgraduate: IR research methods, Gender and critical theory.  

Area of Specialisation:

  • International Political Economy, in particularly the impact of the IPE on the Developing World.
  • Transnational Issues, in particular, transnational organized crime; human trafficking; human security and the environment
  • Gender focusing on development, government, conflict, health and human security
  • International Relations Theory focusing on regime theory and critical theory
  • Research methods – both qualitative and quantitative
  • Pedagogical issues relating to tertiary education, focusing on teaching International Relations in a developing world context

Research Interests:  Gender and conflict, IPE relating to Africa; Race; epidemiology

Recent Publications:

  • Ala, J.: "Southern African Multinational Corporations Confront the Challenges of  HIV/AIDS" in Southern African Journal of International Affairs Vol.11, Issue 2,  Winter/Spring 2004
  • Ala, J. & Hyde Clarke, N.: "The Utility of Adopting Problem Based Learning at Foundation Course Level. Case Study: The International Relations Foundation Course" in Education as Change  Vol.10, No.1, July 2006
  • Ala, J.: "Enriching the Critical Discourse of Feminist Studies in International Relations: New discussions of the roles of women in conflict, peace-making and government" in Politikon. Vol.33, No.2, August 2006
  • Ala, J.: “AIDS as a New Security Threat” in From Cape to Congo: Southern Africa’s Evolving Security Structure.(Ed) M Baregu & Landsberg, C. Lynne Riener Publishers, 2003

Prof. Rod Alence

PhD (Stanford)
Associate Professor

Contact details:

rod.alence@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717-4494

Courses: INTR 2002: Political Economy and International Relations; INTR 4018/7018: IR Theory and Research (quantitative methods component); INTR 4045/7043: IPE of African Development

Area of Specialisation:

  • Comparative and international political economy.
  • Governance and African development

Research Interests:  The global economy and the politics of African development; the political economy of Africa’s natural resources; quantitative and qualitative research methods; measuring governance quality; the Afrobarometer surveys.

Recent Publications:

  • “Democracy and development in Africa,” Journal of the International Institute 16, no. 2 (University of Michigan, 2009).
  • “Evading the ‘resource curse’ in Africa:  economics, governance, and natural resources,” Global Insight 52 (Institute for Global Dialogue, 2005).
  • “Political Institutions and Developmental Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Journal of Modern African Studies 42, no. 2.
  • “South Africa after apartheid: the first decade,” Journal of Democracy 15, no. 3 (2004).

Mr. Larry Benjamin

MA (Cum Laude) 

Contact details:  

Larry.Benjamin@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717 4390
CB124

Courses: The Middle East; Diplomacy and Negotiations

Research Interests:  Middle East, Israel, Iran, Diplomacy and Negotiations US Foreign Policy, South Africa and the Middle East

Dr. Malte Brosig

PhD

Contact details:

Malte.Brosig @ wits.ac.za
CB 113

Courses: International Organizations  

Area of Specialisation:

  • International Organizations and Peacekeeping
  • European Union, Minority Rights

Research Interests:

My current research interests focus on organisational overlap between international organisations (IOs) in peacekeeping and norm promotion in Europe and Africa. Cooperation agreements between IOs have increased substantially in the last years but have gone unnoticed by mainstream IR scholarship. However my research aims at showing that organisations are moving together (partly converging) in many policy fields and form an ever closer regime. Indeed we can observe patterns of cooperation, division of labour and competition. One of the main goals of my research is to explore causal conditions for these three interaction types. 

Recent Publications:

  • "The Challenge of Implementing Minority Rights in Eastern Europe" Journal of European Integration.
  • "Governance between International Institutions: Analysing Interaction Modes between the EU, the Council of Europe and the OSCE" in Galbreath & Gebhardt (eds.) Cooperation or Conflict? Problematizing Overlap in Europe. London: Ashgate.
  • Agarin, T & Brosig, M. (eds.) (2009) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi. 
  • with T. Agarin (2009) "Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: An Introduction" in T. Agarin & M. Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi, 7-23.
  • Article (2009) "The Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and Equality Promotion" in T. Agarin & M. Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi, 95-128.
  • with T. Agarin  (2009) "Multicultural Solutions for Central and Eastern Europe? Concluding Observations" in T. Agarin & M. Brosig (eds.) Minority Integration in Central Eastern Europe: Between Diversity and Equality. Amsterdam, NY: Ropodi, 441-474.
  • Article (2008) “A Plan for the Future? The Estonian State Integration Programme 2000-2007” Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 7(2).

Mr David John Hornsby

BA (Hons.), MA (Guelph), PhD Candidate (Cantab)
Lecturer

Contact details:

David.Hornsby@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717 4490
CB114A                

Courses:  Introduction to International Relations; International Political Economy

Area of Specialisation: 

  • International Trade, Food and Environmental Risk Regulation, Trade-Environment, Science in Law and Policy, Politics of Climate Change
  • Canadian Politics, Transatlantic Trade Relations, International Political Economy, Constructivism

Research Interests: David Hornsby’s current research interests pertain to a number of different themes connected to International Political Economy including trade conflict emergence in areas of risk regulation, the interaction between international and domestic obligations in risk, the trade-environment debate and the role of science in policy-making and law. Currently working towards completing his PhD in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, David has published in both the social and biological sciences.  He is a member of the editorial board and the book reviews editor for the European Journal of Risk Regulation and an Associate of the Cambridge Centre for Science in Policy and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) located in Montreal, Canada.  David is also a member of the Board of Directors for World University Service of Canada (WUSC), one of Canada’s leading development NGO’s.

Recent Publications:

  • "Constructive Engagement in Global Governance: Resolving US-EU Trade Disputes".  Transatlantic Strategy Forum: European Union, United States and Global Governance Major Trends and Challenges.  3-4 December 2009.  Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Book Review Essay of Alberto Alemanno, “Trade in Food.  Regulatory and Judicial Approaches in the EC and WTO.” (2008).  Global Law Books.  New York University. 25 October, 2009. http://www.globallawbooks.org/reviews/detail.asp?id=624
  • “NAFTA’s Shadow Hangs over Kyoto Implementation” with Summerlee, AJS and Woodside, KB, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politques  33(3) September 2007, pp. 285-298.
  • "Relaxing and drinking in pregnancy in rats", with Wilson, BC and Summerlee, AJS. In The Maternal Brain: Neurobiological and Neuroendocrine Adaptation and Disorders in Pregnancy and Post Partum. Ed. JA Russell, AJ Douglas, RJ Windle, CD Ingram. Chapter 16 pp 229-240 Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2001.
  • Summerlee, AJS; Hornsby, DJ; and Ramsey, DG (1998). "The dipsogenic effects of rat relaxin: the effect of photoperiod and the potential role of relaxin in drinking in pregnancy", with Summerlee, AJS and Ramsey, DG.  Endocrinology 139: 2322-2328.

Mrs Leaza Jernberg

B.A. Law, B.A Hons, MPhil, MA, PhD Candidate

Contact details:

Leaza.Jernberg@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717 4372
CB118

Courses: Introduction to International Relations- Security Studies; Advanced Strategic Studies

Area of Specialisation:

  • Security Studies but with a specific focus on strategy and geopolitics.

Research Interests:  While my current research is focused on the balance of power in the Indian Ocean and the implications of the rise of the Indian and Chinese Navies for the region,  my research interests include the BRICs more broadly and energy politics. I have a keen interest in the rise of new non-state actors (e.g. pirates, PMCs etc) and the implications of their rise for states, the international community, including the impact that these actors have on international law, and for global power balances. My research for my Masters degrees mainly focused on the Regulation of Private Military Companies and Private Security Companies, particularly in South Africa and the UK.

Recent Publications:

  • Sidiropoulos, E. And Kolkenbeck-Ruh, L. 2009. ‘South Africa’ in Vogt, S. (Ed) Growth and Responsibility: The Positioning of Emerging Powers in the Global Governance System. Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
  • Kolkenbeck-Ruh, L. 2008. ‘Africa: Kosovo Vote Could Impact Continent’ in all.Africa.com (online). (http://allafrica.com/stories/200803260102.html) (26 March 2008).
  • Kolkenbeck- Ruh, L. 2007. ‘A vote for Kosovo’s Independence is a vote for Peace’ in South African Foreign Policy Monitor. June-July 2007. Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs.

Mr Mopeli Moshoeshoe

M.A. International Relations, PhD Candidate

Contact details:

Mopeli.moshoeshoe@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717 4383
CB 121

Courses:   INTR 1007-Introduction to International Relations, INTR 2002- International Political Economy

Area of Specialisation:

  • IPE & Cooperation - Africa & Southern Africa
  • Foreign Policy Analysis & South African Foreign Policy

Research Interests:  Game theory applications & Strategic cooperation, Trade & Development issues

Recent Publications:

  • PhD in progress

Vishwas Satgar

Contact details:  

Vishwas.Satgar@wits.ac.za      

Professor Garth Shelton

BA, BA Hons, MA (Cum Laude), National Security Certificate, Christain Albrechts University (Germany), PhD (Wits)

Contact details:

garthshelton@wits.c.za
 27 (0)11 717-4395

Courses:     Undergraduate:  International Relations of East Asia

                Postgraduate:  The Pacific - East Asian Region  

Area of Specialisation:

  • International Relations – East Asia; China-Africa Relations; Japan-Africa Relations; Inter-Korean Relations.
  • Security Studies; Arms Control; The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
  • South Africa’s defence policy.

 Research Interests: 

  • China – South Africa relations – the evolving South-South  strategic partnership;
  • China-Africa relations; the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC);
  • Japan and Africa; the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD);
  • The NPT review process and North-South arms control co-operation;

 Recent Publications:

 Books:

  • Asia-Pacific and Africa: Realising Economic Potential (Edited volume with Greg Mills) SAIIA, Johannesburg, 2003;
  • China, Africa and South Africa: South-South Co-operation in a Global Era (co-authored with Garth le Pere) IGD, Midrand, 2007;
  • The Forum on China-Africa Co-operation: A Strategic Opportunity (co-authored with Farana Paruk) ISS, Pretoria, 2008;
  • Korea and South Africa: Building a Strategic Partnership, IGD, Midrand, 2009;

Articles:

  • "South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Experience – An Opportunity for Leadership in Advancing the Global Arms Control Agenda?"  Global Insight, No. 25, September 2003.
  • "The North Korean Nuclear Issue", Global Insight, No. 62, June 2006.

Ms Natalie Zähringer

BA (Hons), MA Cum laude (Wits)

Contact details:

Natalie.zahringer@wits.ac.za
 27 (0)11 717 4393
CB114B

Courses: Europe, East and West; State Sovereignty and the International Human Rights Regime; Introduction to International Law

Area of Specialisation:

  • European Union
  • Public International Law, especially Human Rights and Statehood

Research Interests:  European Union, EU institutionalisation, European integration, European nationalism and identity, application and enforcement of international law, statehood, human rights, International Political Economy

Recent Publications

  • Zähringer, N. “Using referenda in furthering European integration: an aid or hindrance?”, published by the Jean Monnet working paper series, Nov 2008, http://www4.soc.unitn.it:8080/poloeuropeo/content/e2611/index_eng.html
  • Longman, T. and Zähringer N. “Explaining State Responses to Human Rights” in Muldoon, J.P., Aviel, J.F., Reitano, R. and Sullivan, E. (eds): The New Dynamics of Multilateralism: The Practical Dimension of Diplomacy, International Organizations and Global Governance, Westview Press (forthcoming)