Christopher Clapham

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

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Christopher Clapham is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Clapham has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 13 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Christopher Clapham's work include African history and culture analysis (39 papers), Global Peace and Security Dynamics (16 papers) and African history and culture studies (12 papers). Christopher Clapham is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture analysis (39 papers), Global Peace and Security Dynamics (16 papers) and African history and culture studies (12 papers). Christopher Clapham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ghana and Netherlands. Christopher Clapham's co-authors include Gail M. Gerhart, John W. Harbeson, Harold G. Marcus, Robin Theobald, Vicky Randall, Alfred Zack-Williams, David Turton, John Sorenson, William Cavendish and Percy S. Mistry and has published in prestigious journals such as Foreign Affairs, The American Historical Review and Population and Development Review.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Clapham

104 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival

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Author						Papers	Cites
Christopher Clapham	1.6k	1.4k	621	419	194	111	2.7k
Patrick Chabal	1.7k 1.1×	770 0.6×	515 0.8×	615 1.5×	156 0.8×	107	2.8k
Robert L. Tignor	1.9k 1.2×	962 0.7×	288 0.5×	866 2.1×	266 1.4×	99	3.3k
Donald Rothchild	2.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.1×	678 1.1×	291 0.7×	151 0.8×	109	3.3k
Jeffrey Herbst	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	591 1.0×	295 0.7×	120 0.6×	62	2.7k
Crawford Young	1.3k 0.8×	830 0.6×	266 0.4×	466 1.1×	138 0.7×	76	2.1k
Göran Hydén	1.5k 0.9×	709 0.5×	608 1.0×	476 1.1×	80 0.4×	117	3.2k
René Lemarchand	1.5k 0.9×	879 0.6×	302 0.5×	323 0.8×	150 0.8×	108	2.1k
Timothy M. Shaw	1.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	765 1.2×	233 0.6×	82 0.4×	232	2.6k
Jean-François Bayart	1.4k 0.9×	637 0.5×	315 0.5×	568 1.4×	132 0.7×	80	2.1k
William Reno	1.8k 1.1×	972 0.7×	441 0.7×	340 0.8×	159 0.8×	86	2.5k

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Clapham, Christopher. (2009). Post-war Ethiopia: The Trajectories of Crisis. Review of African Political Economy. 36(120). 62 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher. (2007). The European mapping of Ethiopia, 1460-1856. Journal of Ethiopian studies. 40. 293–307. 1 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher, Jeffrey Herbst, & Greg Mills. (2006). Big African states. Wits University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher. (2004). The evolution of Africa’s international relations. 24–36. 4 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher. (2002). Third World Politics. 33 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher. (2001). The changing world of regional integration in Africa.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 8 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher. (1999). The Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University).

Clapham, Christopher. (1999). African security systems: privatisation and the scope for mercenary activity.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 14 indexed citations

Clapham, Christopher. (1998). Rwanda: The Perils of Peacemaking. Journal of Peace Research. 35(2). 193–210. 53 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1997). Opposition in Tropical Africa. Government and Opposition. 32(4). 541–556. 12 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1995). Political Conditionality and Structures of the African State. Africa Insight. 25(2). 91–97. 5 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1995). The international politics of African guerrilla movements. South African Journal of International Affairs. 3(1). 81–91. 6 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1991). The Structure of Regional Conflict in Northern Ethiopia. Disasters. 15(3). 244–253. 8 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1988). The Structure of Regional Conflict in Northern Ethiopia. The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. 13(2). 3–16. 1 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1987). REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST DEVELOPMENT IN ETHIOPIA. African Affairs. 86(343). 151–165. 6 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1987). The constitution of the people's democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Journal of Communist Studies. 3(2). 192–195. 6 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1977). Foreign Policy Making in Developing States: A Comparative Approach. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

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Cartwright, John & Christopher Clapham. (1977). Liberia and Sierra Leone: An Essay in Comparative Politics. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 10(2). 332–332. 25 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1975). CENTRALIZATION AND LOCAL RESPONSE IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA. African Affairs. 74(294). 72–81. 10 indexed citations

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Clapham, Christopher. (1968). The Ethiopian Coup d'Etat of December 1960. The Journal of Modern African Studies. 6(4). 495–507. 9 indexed citations

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