Nelson Mandela of Politics Emeritus | Rhodes University
2010 - present

Professor in the Humanities | University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg | 2008 - present

Visiting Professor | Rhodes University | for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL), Rhodes University

Senior Professor | University of the Western Cape
School of Government | 2001 - 2003

Acting Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and Deputy Vice-Chancellor | University of the Western Cape
1999 - 2001

UNESCO Africa Chair | University of Utrecht
Netherlands | 1996 - 1997

Visiting Professor | Stellenbosch University
1995 - 1999

Professor | Southern African Studies | University of the Western Cape
1994 - 1998

Director | Centre for Southern African Studies | University of the Western Cape
University of the Western Cape | 1990 - 1998

Director | Institute of Social & Economic Research
Rhodes University | 1984 - 1989

Director of Research | South African Institute for International Affairs
Johannesburg | 1981 - 1984

Lecturer | Department of International Relations
University of the Witwatersrand | 1977 - 1980

Research Fellow | International Institute for Strategic Studies
London | 1976 - 1977

Assistant Director | South African Institute of International Affairs
Johannesburg | 1973 - 1975

Journalist | The Financial Gazette
Johannesburg | 1971 - 1973

Capricorn High School, Pietersburg (1965)

University of the Witwatersrand

Completed 1971

Batchelor of Arts (BA)

University of the Witwatersrand

Completed 1973

Bachelor of Arts Honours (BA Hons)

Leicester University, United Kingdom

Completed 1977

Master of Arts (MA)

Leicester University, United Kingdom

Completed 1980

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Distinguished Senior Research Award | Rhodes University

Vice-Chancellor's Book Award | Rhodes University

International Medal | Utrecht University

Council Award for the Humanities | University of the Witwatersrand

Author | Security and Politics in South Africa: The Regional Dimension | 2003

Scholarly Book | Lynne Rienner and University of Cape Town Press | 2003

Sole author

Co-Editor with Larry Swatuk and Bertil Oden | Theory, Change and Southern Africa’s Future | 2001

Editor with Gunnar Sorbo | Out of Conflict: From War to Peace in Africa, | 1996

Editor with Hans-Joachim Spanger | Bridges to the Future, Prospects for Peace and Security in Southern Africa. | 1995

Editor, with Gary Baines | Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa’s late Cold War Conflicts” | 2009

Editor, with Heather Jacklin | Re-Imaging the Social in South Africa: Critique & Post-Apartheid Knowledge. | 2009

Bronze Medal | Comrades Marathon | 1986

Ran two Comrades Marathons, 1983 and 1985

American Political Science Association

Member, 2003 - present

Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society

Fellow, 1984 - present

British International Studies Association

Member, 1984 - present

International Institute for Strategic Studies

Member, 1980 - present

International Studies Association

Member, 1996 - present

African Political Science Association

Member, 2000 - present

South African Sociological Association

Member, 1988 - present

South African Political Science Association

Member, 1982 - present

South African Historical Society

Member, 2002 - present

New York Academy of Sciences

Member, 2002 - present

Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies

Chair, 2011 - present

Academic Advisory Committee

Friends of the Red Location Museum Trust

Board, 2007 - present