GPPi fellow presents at China-Africa conference in Lisbon

GPPi Fellow Ricardo Soares de Oliveira presented at a conference on ​“Strategy and Security in Southern Africa” in Lisbon on 12 – 13 October 2006. The conference was jointly organized by the Luso-American Foundation and the Portuguese Council on Foreign Relations (IPRI). The conference was opened by the Portuguese Foreign Minister, Luis Amado. Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, who is also a Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, presented a paper on ​“National Security, International Markets, and the Calculus of Chinese oil Investment in Africa”. A revised version of this paper will appear in a volume on China’s role in Africa co-edited by Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, Daniel Large (SOAS) and Chris Alden (LSE). The book is scheduled for publication in early 2007.