Prof Chris Landsberg

Prof Chris Landsberg holds a BA Honours from RAU (now UJ); MA from Rhodes University; and M. Phil and D. Phil degrees from Oxford. In 1999-2000, he was a Hamburg Fellow at Stanford University in California. He previously lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is a guest lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of the South African Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO), formerly the Department of Foreign Affairs. Landsberg’s main academic interests are in the areas of the politics of policy and foreign policy analysis. He has published a range of articles and books in the areas of South Africa’s foreign policy, Africa’s continental policy architecture, and the continent’s international relations. Landsberg currently teaches undergraduate and post-graduate modules in foreign policy analysis; South African diplomacy and foreign policy; and international organisations and Africa’s international relations. Prof Landsberg is a former Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg, and a Co-founder of the Centre for Africa’s International Relations (CAIR) at Wits. Landsberg is currently working on a research project on South Africa’s foreign policy, in which he traces the Republic’s diplomatic narratives from 1910 to 2010.