Daniel Large, Expert on the Politics of the Global South, Joins SPP Faculty
CEU's School of Public Policy is pleased to announce that Daniel Large has joined the faculty, becoming the seventh resident professor. Large’s expertise will be crucial in building SPP’s competency in the fields of international relations, including the politics of the global south, global governance and China.
Prior to joining SPP, Dan served as research director of the Africa-Asia Centre, Royal African Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), as research associate with the South African Institute of International Affairs, and as visiting researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies. He is a visiting lecturer at the Centre Européen de Recherches Internationales et Stratégiques, Brussels.
A fellow of the Rift Valley Institute, Large has been deputy director of studies for its annual Sudan and South Sudan field training course since 2005, and project director of its Sudan Open Archive. As well as having worked for or consulted with a variety of international organizations, including UNDP, UNICEF, UK Department for International Development, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Christian Aid, Saferworld, and the Overseas Development Institute, he has participated extensively in government, civil society, corporate and academic policy forums on China’s Africa relations, and China’s changing role in - and impact on - international development and security.
Large's research interests include the politics of international development, security and intervention; China and India’s relations with Africa and the developing world; African politics and international politics (particularly east and north Africa); and the politics of the global South. His publications include policy papers, academic articles in The China Quarterly and African Affairs, and the co-edited volumes Sudan Looks East: China, India and the politics of Asian alternatives (Oxford: James Currey, 2011, with Luke Patey); and China Returns to Africa: A Rising Power and a Continent Embrace (London: Hurst, 2008, with Chris Alden and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira).
Large holds a B.A. in politics from the University of York, an MSc. in international politics and a PhD from the SOAS, University of London.
As assistant professor at SPP, Large will be teaching the core course on the development of modern governance and developing new courses, including on the politics of the global South.