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Qualifications: BSocSc (Cape Town); MA (University of Stellenbosch), PhD (Glasgow)   Teaching specialisation: International Relations; Foreign Policy Analysis; Political Theory; The Political Economy of Japan    Research Interests: African international relations; South African foreign policy; Japan-Africa relations   Current research projects Asian actors, their investments and diplomacy in sub-Saharan Africa; Corporate Social Responsibility paradigms and practices in Africa   Selected recent publications Books Cornelissen, S., F. Cheru, F. and T. M. Shaw, (eds.) (2012). Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. Shaw, T.M.; A.J. Grant and S. Cornelissen, (eds.) (2011) Research Companion to Regionalisms. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Ashgate.   Articles and chapters 'Selling Africa: Japan's G8 politics and its Africa diplomacy', Global Governance (forthcoming). TICAD's directives for Southern Africa: Promises and Pitfalls, Japanese Studies, 2012, 32, 2: 1-17. "Our struggles are bigger than the World Cup": Civic activism, state-society relations and the socio-political legacies of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, British Journal of Sociology, 2012, 63. 2: 328-348. Mega-event securitisation in a Third World setting: Global processes and ramifications in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Urban Studies, 2011, 48, 15: 3221-3240. More than a sporting chance? Appraising the sport for development legacy of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Third World Quarterly, 2011, 32, 3: 503-529. The geopolitics of global aspiration: sport mega-events and emerging powers, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2010, 27, nos. 16-18: 3008-3025. Awkward embraces: emerging and established powers and the shifting fortunes of Africa's international relations in the twenty-first century, Politikon, 2009, 36, 1: 5-26. Migration regimes and the politics of difference in contemporary Southern Africa, The Round Table, 2009, 98, 402: 347-360.