Associate Professor Harry Verhoeven is the author of Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan. The Political Economy of Military-Islamist State Building (Cambridge UP, 2015) and Why Comrades Go To War. Liberation Politics and the Outbreak of Africa's Deadliest Conflict (Oxford UP, 2016, with Philip Roessler). He is also the editor of Environmental Politics in the Middle East. Local Struggles, Global Connections (Oxford UP, 2016). He has taught at Georgetown University in Qatar, the University of Oxford and the School of Oriental and African Studies and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Verhoeven is also the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network, an Associate Member at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford and the Editor of the Cambridge University Press book series on Intelligence and National Security in Africa & the Middle East.
