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  • Süsler, Buğra, Alden, Christopher (2025). Brokering peace: emerging middle powers, agency and mediation. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.70100 picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Schoeman, Maxi (2025). Being Africa’s BRIC(S) South Africa’s foreign policy turn from ‘neo-liberalism’ to the ‘new era’. South African Journal of International Affairs, 32(1-2), 71 - 90. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2025.2503212 picture_as_pdf
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2024). Tit-for-tat diplomacy will Brazil join China’s Belt and Road Initiative? China Global South Project,
  • Alden, Chris, Ocquaye, Nathaniel (2024). Relocating African agency: assessing the role of ‘local patrons’ and Chinese enterprises in the construction sector in Ghana. Leadership and Developing Societies, 6(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.47697/lds.35350000 picture_as_pdf
  • Alves, Ana Cristina, Alden, Christopher (2024). China’s economic and trade cooperation zones in Africa: from static model emulation to dynamic learning. Area Development and Policy, 9(2), 268 - 290. https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2023.2300988 picture_as_pdf
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2023). Latin America’s diplomacy: balancing EU and China with Mercosur. China Global South Project,
  • Alden, Christopher, Méndez, Álvaro (2023). Of choke points, copper mines and China. China Global South Project,
  • Alden, Christopher, le Pere, Garth (2023). Southern multilateralism from IBSA to NDB: synergies, continuities, and regional options. Global Policy, https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13246 picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Méndez, Álvaro (2023). Ecuador’s new free trade pact with China provokes lots of excitement and even more questions. China Global South Project,
  • Chan, Kenddrick, Alden, Chris (2023). <Redirecting> the diaspora: China's united front work and the hyperlink networks of diasporic Chinese websites in cyberspace. Political Research Exchange, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2023.2179409 picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher (2023). China’s Free Trade Agreements in the Global South: Quito and Beijing. China Global South Project,
  • Süsler, Buǧra, Alden, Chris (2022). Turkey and African agency: the role of Islam and commercialism in Turkey's Africa policy. Journal of Modern African Studies, 60(4), 597 - 617. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X22000349 picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Chris, Otele, Oscar M. (2022). Fitting China in: local elite collusion and contestation along Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway. African Affairs, 121(484), 443 - 466. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac026 picture_as_pdf
  • Liu, Hong, Lee, Celia, Alden, Chris (2022). The dynamics of governance and sustainable development goals in the Global South. Global Policy, 13(S1), 5 - 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13075
  • Alden, Christopher, Harvey, Ross (2021). Chinese transnational criminal organisations and the illegal wildlife trade in Tanzania. European Review of Organised Crime, 5(1), 5-35.
  • Pursiainen, Christer, Alden, Chris, Bertelsen, Rasmus (2021). The arctic and Africa in China’s foreign policy how different are they and what does this tell us? Arctic Review on Law and Politics, 12, 31-55. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v12.2440 picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Jiang, Lu (2019). Brave new world: debt, industrialization and security in China–Africa relations. International Affairs, 95(3), 641-657. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz083 description
  • Alden, Christopher, Alves, Ana Cristina (2017). China’s regional forum diplomacy in the developing world socialisation and the ‘Sinosphere'. Journal of Contemporary China, 26(103), 151 - 165. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2016.1206276
  • Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (2016). South African foreign policy and China: converging visions, competing interests, contested identities. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 54(2), 203-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2016.1151170
  • Alden, Christopher, Schoeman, Maxi (2015). Reconstructing South African identity through global summitry. Global Summitry, 1(2), 187-204. https://doi.org/10.1093/global/guw001
  • Alden, Christopher, Large, Dan (2015). On becoming a norms maker: Chinese foreign policy, norms evolution and the challenges of security in Africa. China Quarterly, 221, 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741015000028
  • Alden, Christopher, Schoeman, Maxi (2014). South Africa’s symbolic hegemony in Africa. International Politics, 52(2), 239-254. https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2014.47
  • Alden, Christopher, Schoeman, Maxi (2013). South Africa in the company of giants: the search for leadership in a transforming global order. International Affairs, 89(1), 111-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12007
  • Alden, Christopher (2013). China and the long march into African agriculture. Cahiers Agricultures, 22(1), 16-21. https://doi.org/10.1684/agr.2012.0600
  • Alden, Christopher (2012). China and Africa: a distant mirror of Latin America. Colombia Internacional, 75, 19-47. https://doi.org/10.7440/colombint75.2012.02
  • Alden, Christopher (2012). China and Africa: the relationship matures. Strategic Analysis, 36(5), 701-707. https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2012.712365
  • Vieira, Marco Antonio, Alden, Christopher (2011). India, Brazil, and South Africa (IBSA): South-South cooperation and the paradox of regional leadership. Global Governance, 17(4), 507-528. https://doi.org/10.5555/1075-2846-17.4.507
  • Alden, Christopher, Large, Dan (2011). China's exceptionalism and the challenges of delivering difference in Africa. Journal of Contemporary China, 20(68), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2011.520844
  • Alden, Christopher, Khalfa, Jean, Park, Yoon Jung (2010). La Chine en Afrique. Les Temps Modernes, (657), 23-27.
  • Alden, Christopher, Alves, Ana Christina (2010). La Chine et les ressources naturelles de l'afrique. Les Temps Modernes, (657), 28-51.
  • Alden, Christopher, Sidiropoulos, Elizabeth (2009). Africa-China-EU cooperation in Africa: prospects and pitfalls. Policy Notes, 2009(11), 1-5.
  • Alden, Chris, Hughes, Christopher R. (2009). Harmony and discord in China’s Africa strategy: some implications for foreign policy. China Quarterly, 199, 563-584. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741009990105
  • Garth, Le Pere, Alden, Christopher (2009). South Africa in Africa: bound to lead? Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 36(1), 145-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589340903155443
  • Alden, Christopher (2009). Emerging powers and Africa: a comparison of modes of engagement pursued by China, India and Brazil. Global Review, 2, 62-74.
  • Alden, Christopher, Alves, Ana Cristina (2008). History and identity in the construction of China's Africa policy. Review of African Political Economy, 35(115), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/03056240802011436
  • Alden, Christopher, Large, Dan, Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo (2008). Chine-Afrique: facteur et résultante de la dynamique mondiale. Afrique Contemporaine, 228(4), 119-133. https://doi.org/10.3917/afco.228.0119
  • Alden, Christopher (2008). Delineando il futuro della Cina in Africa. Afriche e Orienti, 2008(2), 5-14.
  • Alden, Chris, Davies, Martyn (2006). A profile of the operations of Chinese multinationals in Africa. South African Journal of International Affairs, 13(1), 83 - 96. https://doi.org/10.1080/10220460609556787
  • Alden, Chris, Vieira, Marco Antonio (2005). The new diplomacy of the South: South Africa, Brazil, India and trilateralism. Third World Quarterly, 26(7), 1077 - 1095. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590500235678
  • Alden, Chris (2005). China in Africa. Survival, 47(3), 147 - 164. https://doi.org/10.1080/00396330500248086
  • Alden, Chris, Soko, Mills (2005). South Africa's economic relations with Africa: hegemony and its discontents. Journal of Modern African Studies, 43(3), 367 - 392. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X05001011
  • Alden, Christopher (2003). Let them eat cyberspace: Africa, the G8 and the digital divide. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 32(3), 457-476.
  • Alden, Christopher, Khalfa, Jean (2003). Afrique du sud: dix ans après. Les Temps Modernes, 623,
  • Alden, Christopher (2002). Making old soldiers fade away: lessons from the reintegration of demobilised soldiers in Mozambique. Security Dialogue, 33(3), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010602033003008
  • Alden, Christopher (2002). The chrysanthemum and the protea: reinventing Japanese-South African relations after apartheid. African Affairs, 101(404), 365-386. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.404.365
  • Alden, Christopher (2001). Mozambique: a success story in crisis. Global Insight, (10), 1-4.
  • Alden, Christopher (2001). South Africa and regional crises in SADC: the fable of the elephant and the mouse. Northwestern Journal of International Affairs, 3(Summer), 5-19.
  • Alden, Christopher (2000). From neglect to 'virtual engagement': the United States and its new paradigm for Africa. African Affairs, 99(396), 355-371. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/99.396.355
  • Alden, Christopher, Khalfa, Jean (1999). La transición sudafricana. Letras Libres, 1(8), 110-112.
    • Book
  • Alden, Christopher, Mendez, Alvaro (2023). China and Latin America: development, agency and geopolitics. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350236950
  • Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (Eds.) (2021). South Africa–China relations: a partnership of paradoxes. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54768-4
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher, Carlos Herrera, Luis, Montenegro, Markelda, Torres–Lista, Virginia (2021). New diplomatic relations between Panama and China: geopolitical and socioeconomic implications. CENICS. picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher, Carlos Herrera, Luis, Montenegro, Markelda, Torres–Lista, Virginia (2021). Nuevas relaciones diplomáticas entre Panamá y China: implicaciones geopolíticas y socioeconómicas. CENICS. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, C., Alao, A., Chun, Z., Barber, L. (Eds.) (2017). China and Africa: building peace and security cooperation on the continent. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Alden, Chris, Chichava, Sérgio, Alves, Ana Christina (Eds.) (2017). Mozambique and Brazil: forging new partnerships or developing dependency? Jacana (Organization).
  • Alden, Christopher, Aran, Amnon (2012). Foreign policy analysis: new approaches. Routledge.
  • Alden, Christopher, Morphet, Sally, Vieira, Marco Antonio (2010). The South in world politics. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281196
  • Anseeuw, Ward, Alden, Christopher (Eds.) (2010). The struggle over land in Africa: conflicts, politics & change. Human Sciences Research Council.
  • Alden, Christopher, Anseeuw, Ward (2009). Land, liberation and compromise in Southern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250970
  • Alden, Christopher, Large, Daniel, Soares de Oliveira, Ricardo (Eds.) (2008). China returns to Africa: a rising power and a continent embrace. Columbia University Press.
  • Alden, Christopher (2007). China in Africa. Zed Books.
  • Alden, Christopher, Hirano, K (Eds.) (2003). Distant mirror: Japan and South Africa in a globalising world. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Alden, Christopher, Martin, G (Eds.) (2003). France and South Africa : towards a new engagement with Africa. Protea Press.
  • Alden, Christopher (2001). Mozambique and the construction of the new African State: from negotiations to nation building. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Chapter
  • Alden, Chris, Chan, Kenddrick (2025). China and the G7. In Freytag, Andreas, Draper, Peter (Eds.), The Elgar Companion to the G7 (pp. 245-259). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035302116.00024
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2025). China’s expanding footprint in Latin America: trade, diplomacy, and strategic influence. In Open Access Government: Asia Analysis . Adjacent Digital Politics Ltd.
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Christopher (2024). China y América Latina: historia, comercio y geopolítica. In Jose Rugeles, Andres (Ed.), América Latina: la visión de sus líderes (pp. 897 - 904). Planeta. picture_as_pdf
  • Schoeman, Maxi, Alden, Chris (2024). The rise of multiplexity and a future of world order/s. In Economic Shocks and Globalisation: Between Deglobalisation and Slowbalisation (pp. 183-203). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003460459-11 picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (2021). Introduction. In Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (Eds.), South Africa–China Relations: A Partnership of Paradoxes (pp. 1 - 10). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54768-4_1
  • Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (2021). Leadership, global agendas and domestic determinants of South Africa’s foreign policy towards China: the Zuma and Ramaphosa years. In Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (Eds.), South Africa–China Relations: A Partnership of Paradoxes (pp. 37 - 63). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54768-4_3
  • Harding, Angela, Jiang, Lu, Anseeuw, Ward, Alden, Chris (2021). The drive for Chinese investments in agriculture: comparing South Africa to the continent. In Alden, Chris, Wu, Yu-Shan (Eds.), South Africa–China Relations: A Partnership of Paradoxes (pp. 179 - 198). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54768-4_9
  • Alden, Christopher, Large, Dan, Mendez, Alvaro (2019). The western way of development: a critical review. In Jing, Yijia, Mendez, Alvaro, Zheng, Yu (Eds.), New development assistance: emerging economies and the new landscape of development assistance (pp. 19-38). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alcade, Javier, Alden, Christopher (2019). Introducción: Análisis de la Política Exterior de Perú hacia China en el siglo XXI. In Mendez, Alvaro, Alcade, Javier, Alden, Christopher (Eds.), La conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI (pp. 13-24). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. picture_as_pdf
  • Mendez, Alvaro, Alden, Christopher (2019). Perú, China y la nueva multipolaridad: Perú, China y la nueva multipolaridad – navegar en la política internacional en tiempos inciertos. In Mendez, Alvaro, Alcade, Javier, Alden, Christopher (Eds.), La conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI (pp. 278-307). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Chris (2017). Critiques of the rational actor model and foreign policy decision making. In Thompson, William R., Capelos, Tereza (Eds.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics . Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.474
  • Alden, Christopher, Park, Yoon Jung (2013). Upstairs and downstairs dimensions of China and the Chinese in South Africa. In Pillay, U., Jansen, Jeroen P., Nyamnjoh, F., Hagg, G. (Eds.), State of the nation: South Africa 2012-2013 . Human Sciences Research Council.
  • Alden, Christopher (2009). Las nuevas relaciones de China con Africa. In Paz, Guadalupe, Roett, Riordan (Eds.), La Presencia De China En El Himesferio Occidental (pp. 263-290). Libros del Zorzal (Firm).
  • Alden, Christopher (2001). Solving South Africa's Chinese puzzle: democratic foreign policy making and the "two Chinas" question. In Broderick, Jim, Burford, Gary, Freer, Gordon, Pahad, Aziz (Eds.), South Africa's Foreign Policy: Dilemmas of a New Democracy (pp. 119-138). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Alden, Christopher (1998). The United Nations, elections and the resolution of conflict in Mozambique. In Chan, Stephen, Venâncio, Moisés (Eds.), War and Peace in Mozambique, 1984-1994 (pp. 67-97). Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Alden, Christopher, Smith, Karen E. (2003-10-23 - 2003-10-24) Strengthening democratic structures and processes in Africa: a commentary on the role of the European Union [Paper]. Os Desafios das Relações Europa-África: Uma Agenda de Prioridades (The Challenges of Europe-Africa Relations: An Agenda of Priorities), Lisbon, Portugal, PRT.
    • Report
  • Méndez, Álvaro, Alden, Chris (2024). Panama, Ecuador, and China: the dangers of short-term calculations. United States Institute of Peace Press.
  • Alden, Christopher, Martin, Mary, Chan, Kenddrick (2023). Enhancing efforts at global digital governance: recommendations to the G20. (T20 Policy Briefs). Think20. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Paduano, Stephen, Qobo, Mzukisi, Fiala, Lukas, Gagliardone, Ignio, Wu, Yu-Shan, Gautel, Gidon, Benbadallah, Lina (2021). FOCAC at 21: future trajectories of China-Africa relations. (LSE IDEAS Reports). LSE Ideas. picture_as_pdf
  • Alcade, Javier, Alden, Christopher, Guerra-Barón, Angélica, Mendez, Alvaro (2019). La conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Le Pere, Garth (2010). Strategic Posture Review: South Africa. (Strategic Posture Review). World Politics Review.
  • Onslow, Sue, Jerven, Morten, Shepherd, Ben, Alden, Christopher, Vines, Alex, Chitiyo, Knox (2010). Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world. (IDEAS reports - strategic updates SU004). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Alden, Christopher (2010). Resurgent continent?: Africa and the world: emerging powers and Africa. (IDEAS reports - strategic updates SU004). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Porto, João Gomes, Parsons, Imogen, Alden, Chris (2007). From soldiers to citizens: the social, economic and political reintegration of Unita ex-combatants. (ISS Monograph series). Institute for Security Studies (South Africa).
  • Alden, Christopher, le Pere, G. (2003). South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy: from reconciliation to renewal? (Adelphi paper 362). International Institute for Strategic Studies.
    • Online resource
  • Alden, Christopher, Clerx, Faten Aggard (2012). Chinese investment in North Africa should be viewed as an opportunity not a threat.
  • Alden, Christopher (2012). Africa and China: Will Africa be affected by the slowdown in China’s economic growth?
  • Alden, Christopher (2012). Africa and China: How it all began.
  • Anseeuw, Ward, Alden, Christopher (2010). Land, liberation and compromise in Southern Africa.
    • Working paper
  • Alden, Christopher, Chan, Kenddrick (2021). Twitter and digital diplomacy: China and COVID-19. (Strategic Updates June 2021). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Mendez, Alvaro (2021). Comparative study of Costa Rica, Argentina, Malaysia, Djibouti and their complex relationship with China: advantages, disadvantages and lessons learned. (LSE Global South Unit Working Paper Series 05/2021). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher, Fiala, Lukas, Krol, Eric, Whittle, Robert (2020). Wings along the BRI exporting Chinese UCAVs and security? (Strategic Updates May 2020). LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Christopher (2020). Understanding debt and diplomacy: China, 'debt traps' and development in the Global South. LSE IDEAS, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Schenoni, Luis L., Belém Lopes, Dawisson, Casarões, Guilherme (2019). Myths of multipolarity: the sources of Brazilian overexpansion. (LSE Global South Unit Working Paper 1/2019). LSE Ideas. picture_as_pdf
  • Alden, Chris (2010). ‘A pariah in our midst’: regional organisations and the problematic of Western-designated pariah regimes – the cases of SADC/Zimbabwe and ASEAN/Myanmar. (Crisis States Research Centre working papers series 2 73). Crisis States Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Blog post
  • Alden, Christopher, Méndez, Álvaro (15 July 2024) China rising, Latin America swooning. Royal Society for Asian Affairs blog.
  • Alden, Christopher, Chan, Kenddrick (9 June 2021) Twitter and digital diplomacy: China and COVID-19. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf