Christopher Clapham is a specialist in African Studies, particularly interested by Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, but also Liberia and Sierra Leone. He has a vast teaching experience that he acquired as a lecturer at the Universities of Addis Abba (1966-1967), Manchester (1968-1971), and Lancaster (1989-2002). He currently teaches at the Center of African Studies of the University of Cambridge. His main publications are Africa and the International System (Cambridge University Press, 2002), African Guerrillas (James Currey, 1998), Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Third World Politics (Croom Helm,1985), etc. Since 1988, he has been the editor of the Journal of Modern African Studies published by Cambridge University Press.