Stefan Andreasson

Stefan Andreasson is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast. He received his PhD in political science from Arizona State University and was a Research Associate with the Institute for Global Dialogue in Johannesburg.

His primary research interests are in political economy and the history of political thought in terms of how these fields of study bear on our understanding of development, democratisation and the evolving nature of the postcolonial world. His research has increasingly become focussed on comparative and theoretical aspects of Anglo-American conservatism, in particular its relationship to classical liberalism and to the anti-Enlightenment tradition, as well as its applicability to the study of postcolonial politics.

Stefan Andreasson is the author of Africa's Development Impasse: Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation (London and New York: Zed Books, 2010). A forthcoming monograph, entitled Conservatism and Postcolonial Politics, will be published by Routledge. His research has also appeared in journals including, among others, Political Geography, Business and Society, Third World Quarterly, Political Studies, Democratization, and the Journal of Contemporary African Studies.