Merle Lipton

Merle Lipton, Associate Fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House.


 * Editorial Board, World Development

Recent Publications

 * Understanding South Africa's Foreign Policy: the perplexing case of Zimbabwe, South African Journal of International Affairs, vol.16, no.3, December 2009
 * Liberals, Marxists & Nationalists: Competing interpretations of South African History, Palgrave MacMillan, 2007
 * Co-editor/Contributor, Land, Labour and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa, Indicator Press, Durban, 1997
 * Co-editor/contributor, State and Market in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Witwatersrand University Press, 1993
 * The Challenge of Sanctions, Centre for the Study of the South African Economy, London School of Economics, 1991
 * Sanctions & South Africa: the dynamics of economic isolation, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1988
 * Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa, 1910-84. Wildwood Press, Alderhot. 1985. Updated edition with an Epilogue in 1986

Experience

 * Presented invited testimony to United States Congressional committees on the impact of economic sanctions on South Africa, and also before expert committees of the United Nations.
 * Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House
 * Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Southern Africa, Sussex University
 * Professorial Fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins, Washington DC
 * Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington DC
 * Research Fellow at the Centre for Southern African Studies, Yale University