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SUMMARY:The return of the state in post-war Angola - Dr Ricardo Soares de 
 Oliveira\, Department of Politics and International Relations\, University
  of Oxford
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CONTACT:Sharath Srinivasan
DESCRIPTION:Speaker details: Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is a University
  Lecturer in Comparative Politics (African Politics) at the Department of 
 Politics and International Relations\, Oxford University\, Fellow of St Pe
 ter's College\, Oxford\, and a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Instit
 ute\, Berlin. Prior to assuming his post in Oxford in September 2007\, he 
 was the Austin Robinson Fellow at Sidney Sussex College\, Cambridge and an
  Associate of the Centre of International Studies\, University of Cambridg
 e. During the academic year 2006-07 he was a visiting scholar at the Centr
 e d'etudes et recherches internationales (Sciences-Po) in Paris. Earlier\,
  he was a Joseph C Fox Fellow at the Centre of International and Area Stud
 ies at Yale University.  Soares de Oliveira has worked in the field of gov
 ernance and the energy sector for the World Bank\, the European Commission
 \, Catholic Relief Services\, the National Democratic Institute for Intern
 ational Affairs (NDI) and the French Ministry of Defence\, among others.\n
 \nHis research interests include African politics (particularly West and C
 entral Africa)\, comparative politics and international political economy\
 , especially in the fields of natural resource extraction\, organized crim
 e\, state decay and post-conflict reconstruction. Most recently\, Soares d
 e Oliveira has focused on the issue of oil and governance in the Gulf of G
 uinea\, where he has conducted extensive fieldwork. He is the author of Oi
 l and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea (Columbia University Press\, 2007)\, 
 a co-editor of China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and a Continent Emb
 race (with Daniel Large and Christopher Alden\, (Columbia UP\, 2008) and a
  contributing author to Bottom of the Barrel: Africa's Oil Boom and the Po
 or (Catholic Relief Services\, 2003). His recent individual and collaborat
 ive work has received the support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science
  and Technology\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, the Gulbenkian Foundation\,
  the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the China Universities' Committee
 . He holds a BA in Politics from the University of York\, an MPhil in Inte
 rnational Relations and a PhD\, both from the University of Cambridge.
LOCATION:The Mond Building Seminar Room\, Centre of African Studies
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