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Mailing Address Department of Political Science Howard University Washington, DC 20059 USA Other mail address: 7427 Jefferson Street New Carrollton, Maryland 20784 USA

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Research Interests Olayiwola Abegunrin's research and publications focus on international relations, African Politics, Political Enonomy and Economic Development, and U.S. foreign policy towards Africa. He taught International Relations at Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife), Ile-Ife, Nigeria (1980-1990). For the period 1986-1988 he was Chairman of the Department of International Relations. He was a Visiting Professor at the Departments of Political Science, and Afro-American and African Studies, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC. (1988-1990). He has previously taught at the University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus (1992-1993), and was Research Scholar at the Institute of International Relations of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon (1981).

Teaching Interests He is Professor of International Relations and Political Economy at the Department of Political science, Howard University, Washington, D.C. and an Adjunct Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Dr. Abegunrin holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, African Studies and Political Economy from Howard University.

Publications * Author: Nigerian Foreign Policy Under Military Rule 1966-1999 (forthcoming, Greenwood Press, 2002), Nigeria and the Struggle for the Liberation of Zimbabwe: A Study of Foreign Policy Decision-Making of An Emerging Nation (Stockholm, Sweden: Bethany Books, 1992), and Economic Dependence and Regional Cooperation in Southern Africa: SADCC and South Africa (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990) Co-author: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Southern Africa: Andrew Young and Beyond (London: Macmillan Press, joint publication with St. Martin's Press, New York, 1987). Co-editor: The Political Economy of South-South Cooperation: Towards A New International Economic Order (Stockholm, Sweden: Bethany Books 1998), and African Development: The OAU/Lagos Plan of Action and Beyond (Lawrenceville, VA: Brunswick Publishing Company, 1985). He has also contributed chapters to books and his articles have appeared in scholarly and internationally recognized journals, including: International Affairs (London), African Studies (UCLA), African Studies of China, Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives (Stockholm, Sweden), International Journal on World Peace, and many others.

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