Ian Taylor

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

Botswana

Affiliation

University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana

Email

tayloric@mopipi.ub.bw

Mailing Address

Department of Political & Administrative Studies
University of Botswana
Private Bag 00705
Gaborone
Botswana

Phone/Fax Number(s)

phone: (267) 355 5018
fax: (267) 570 706 or (267) 585 099

Countries of Specialization

Botswana; South Africa; China and Taiwan

Research Interests

IR/IPE; African politics; comparative development and
political economy in Africa and Asia; multilateralism; globalisation;
regionalism (particularly in southern Africa and east Asia); Botswana and
South Africa's political economy; China and Taiwan's foreign policies
towards Africa; South Africa's foreign policy.

Publications

Books

Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen (eds.) South Africa's
Multilateral Diplomacy and Global Change: The Limits of Reform Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2001, pp. xii + 155.

Ian Taylor Stuck in Middle GEAR: South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign
Relations Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2001.

Peer-reviewed academic articles

Ian Taylor and Philip Nel 'Getting the Rhetoric Right', Getting the
Strategy Wrong: "New Africa", Globalisation and the Confines of Elite
Reformism', Third World Quarterly (forthcoming, 2002).

Ian Taylor 'Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Africa: The Limitations of Dollar
Diplomacy', Journal of Contemporary China (forthcoming, 2002).

Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian Taylor 'Transmission Belt for Transnational
Capital or Facilitator for Development? Problematising the Role of the
State in the Maputo Development Corridor', Journal of Modern African
Studies (forthcoming, 2001).

Ian Taylor and Paul Williams 'South African Foreign Policy and the Great
Lakes Crisis: African Renaissance Meets Vagabondage Politique?', African
Affairs vol. 100, issue 399, 2001, pp. 265-286.

Andrew Cooper and Ian Taylor '"Out of Africa" Versus "Made in Africa":
Comparing South Africa's Non-Leadership with Canada's Leadership in the
1996 Crisis in Eastern Zaire', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative
Politics, vol. 39, no. 1, March 2001, pp. 23-41.

Ian Taylor 'Rethinking the Study of International Relations in South
Africa', Politikon: South African Journal of Political Science vol. 27,
no. 2, November 2000, pp. 207-220.

Scarlett Cornelissen and Ian Taylor 'The Political Economy of Chinese and
Japanese Linkages with Africa: A Comparative Perspective', Pacific Review
vol. 13, no. 4, 2000, pp. 615-633.

Ian Taylor 'The Cairns Group and the Commonwealth: Bridge-Building for
International Trade', Round Table: Commonwealth Journal of International
Relations, no. 355, July 2000, pp. 375- 386.

Ian Taylor and Peter Vale 'South Africa's Transition Revisited:
Globalisation as Vision and Virtue', Global Society, vol. 14, no. 3, July
2000, pp. 399-414.

Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen 'Multilateralism in
South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for a Critical Rationale',
Global Governance, 6, 2000, pp. 43-60.

Ian Taylor 'Legitimisation and De-legitimisation Within a Multilateral
Organisation: South Africa and the Commonwealth', Politikon: South African
Journal of Political Science, vol.27, no. 1, May 2000, pp. 51-72.

Paul Williams and Ian Taylor 'Neo-liberalism and the Political Economy of
the "New" South Africa', New Political Economy, vol. 5, no. 1, March 2000,
pp. 21-40.

Ian Taylor 'The Ambiguous Commitment: The People's Republic of China and
the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa', Journal of Contemporary
African Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, January 2000, pp. 91-106.

Peter Vale and Ian Taylor 'South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy
Five Years On - From Pariah State to "Just Another Country"?, Round Table:
Commonwealth Journal of International Relations, no. 352, October 1999,
pp. 629-634.

Ian Taylor 'The Evolution of Zambia's Relations with China', Africa
Insight, vol. 28, nos. 1/2, 1998, pp. 47-52.

Ian Taylor 'China's Foreign Policy Towards Africa in the 1990s', Journal
of Modern African Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 443-460.

Ian Taylor 'Chinese Foreign Policy Towards Mozambique, 1963-1997', Journal
for Contemporary History, vol. 23, no. 1, June 1998, pp. 65-78.

Ian Taylor 'Africa's Place in the Diplomatic Competition Between Beijing
and Taipei', Issues and Studies: Journal of Chinese Studies and
International Affairs, vol. 34, no. 3, March 1998, pp. 126-143 9 (also
published in French as 'L'afrique dans la surenchère diplomatique
entre Beijin en Taipei', Etudes et Documents, juil 1998, pp. 20-27 and
octobre, 1998, pp. 57-64).

Ian Taylor 'Zambia's Foreign Policy: Themes and Approaches', Politikon:
South African Journal of Political Science, vol. 24, no. 2, December 1997,
pp. 57-65 [review article].

Ian Taylor 'Beijing or Taipei? The Transforming of South Africa's
Relations with the People's Republic of China and the Debate on the "Two
Chinas" Issue', Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2,
December 1997, pp. 236-247.

Ian Taylor 'Mainland China-Angola Relations: Moving From Debacle to
Detente', Issues and Studies: Journal of Chinese Studies and International
Affairs, vol. 33, no. 9, September 1997, pp. 64-81.

Ian Taylor 'China and SWAPO: The People's Republic of China's Relations
with Namibia in the Liberation Struggle and Post-Independence Period',
South African Journal of International Affairs, vol. 5, no. 1, Summer
1997, pp. 110-122.

Ian Taylor '"The Captive States" of Southern Africa and China: The PRC and
Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland', Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative
Politics, vol. 35, no. 2, July 1997, pp. 75-95.

Ian Taylor 'Relations Between the People's Republic of China and
Zimbabwe', Issues and Studies: Journal of Chinese Studies and
International Affairs, vol. 33, no. 2, February 1997, pp. 125-144.

Book chapters

Ian Taylor 'Hegemony, Neo-Liberal "Good Governance" and the International
Monetary Fund: A Gramscian Perspective' in Morten Böös and
Desmond McNeill (eds.) The Role of Ideas in Multilateral Institutions (in
press for 2001).

Bernedette Muthien and Ian Taylor 'The Return of the Dogs of War?: The
Privatisation of Security in Africa', in Thomas Biersteker and Rodney Hall
(eds.) The Emergence of Private Authority: Forms of Private Authority and
Their Implications for Global Governance Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press (in press for 2001).

Ian Taylor 'The Maputo Development Corridor: Whose Corridor? Whose
Development?', in Shaun Breslin and Glenn Hook (eds.) Micro-Regionalism
and World Order Basingstoke: Macmillan (in press for 2001).

Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen 'Launching a
"Democratic" Foreign Policy? Post-Apartheid South Africa's Multilateral
Behaviour', in Neil MacFarlane and Jens Meierhenrich (eds.)
Democratisation and Foreign Policy: Post-Apartheid South Africa in the
International System Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press for 2001).

Ian Taylor 'Zimbabwe's Foreign Policy and Migration to South Africa', in
Jan Marais and Hussein Solomon (eds.) Zimbabwean and Mozambican Labour
Migration Pretoria: Human Science Research Council (in press for 2001).

Ian Taylor 'China's Relations with Africa in the Post-Maoist Era,
1978-1999', in Frank Columbus (ed.) Current Politics and Economics of
Africa, Volume I Huntingdon, New York: Nova Science, 2001, pp. 83-106.

Ian Taylor 'The APEC Forum and the Promotion of Neo-liberalism: Advancing
or Weakening Asian Security?' in Andrew Tan and Kenneth Boutin (eds.)
Non-Traditional Security Issues in Southeast Asia Singapore: Select
Publishing/Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2001, pp. 410-435.

Ian Taylor 'The "Mbeki Initiative": Towards a Post-Orthodox New
International Order?' in Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der
Westhuizen (eds.) Promoting Change? Aspects of Reformism in South Africa's
Multilateral Diplomacy Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 59-75.

Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen 'Reformist Initiatives
and South Africa's Multilateral Diplomacy: A Framework for Understanding'
in Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen (eds.) Promoting
Change? Aspects of Reformism in South Africa's Multilateral Diplomacy
Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp. 1-30.

Janis van der Westhuizen, Ian Taylor and Philip Nel 'Of Rogues, Rebels,
Renegades and Reformers: South African Diplomacy in Context' in Philip
Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen (eds.) Promoting Change?
Aspects of Reformism in South Africa's Multilateral Diplomacy Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2001, pp. 111-125.

Ian Taylor 'Globalisation and Democracy: Rethinking the Link Between
Africa's "Democratisation", Aid, and Neo-Liberalism' in Lisa Thompson
(ed.) Development, Democracy and Aid in Southern Africa Bellville:
University of the Western Cape, 2000, pp. 56-74.

Ian Taylor 'Botswana's "Independent Foreign Policy": Gaborone-Beijing
Linkages', in Botswana Notes and Records, Volume 30, 1998 Gaborone:
Botswana Society, 1999, pp. 79-86.

Keywords

African politics ; Asian politics ; multilateralism ; globalisation ; Botswana ; South Africa