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Contact details
- Name:
- Mr Martin Plaut
- Position/Fellowship type:
- Senior Research Fellow
- Fellowship term:
- 15-Nov-2012 to 31-Jul-2026
- Institute:
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Email address:
- martin.plaut@btinternet.com
- Website:
- http://twitter.com/martinplaut
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, International Relations, Modern History , Political Institutions, Socialism, Communism, Anarchism
- Regions:
- Africa
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
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Africa in general and Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa in particular.
- Project summary relevant to Fellowship:
Having completed my book on South Africa between the Boer war and World War One, I am finalising a book on Eritrea and continuing to work more widely on the Horn of Africa and southern Africa.
- Publication Details
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Related publications/articles:
Date Details 01-May-2024 Eritrea’s foreign festivals: clashes within the exile community Articles
Review of African Political Economy, 2024 Vol. 51, No. 179, 159–169
30-May-2018 Eritrean ‘askaris’: postcards from the Red Sea Journal articles
The Ephemerist No. 180, Spring 2018, pp. 13- 15
01-Apr-2018 Robert Mugabe Edited Book
Ohio University Press, April 2018 (with Sue Onslow)
19-Mar-2018 Media Freedom in South Africa Journal articles
The Round Table, 19 March 2018
21-Feb-2018 Libya’s slave markets are a reminder that the exploitation of Africans never went away Articles
Slavery was recorded in 20th century Ethiopia and continues to exist in Mauritania today.
22-Jan-2018 Do South Africa and Zimbabwe’s new leaders represent a moment of hope? Articles
Cyril Ramaphosa and Emmerson Mnangagwa both have tarnished pasts, but attract optimism.
18-Jan-2018 The Ethiopian Famine: War, Weapons, and Aid Articles
Did rebel movements in Ethiopia use part of the international aid they received for those who were starving to buy weapons and ammunition? Martin Plaut discusses the claims that the aid arm of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front diverted some of these funds to purchase military supplies.
15-Jan-2018 The Ethiopian famine: war, weapons and aid Journal articles
The RUSI Journal, DOI:10.1080/03071847.2017.1414736, January 2018
01-Dec-2017 A crushing defeat for the dark side Articles
The collapse of Bell Pottinger would not have happened without the investigative zeal of a group of dedicated journalists in South Africa
13-Sep-2017 Eritrea: a mafia state? Articles
Eritrea is no ordinary state; rather it resembles a criminal organisation designed to keep its citizens in perpetual servitude. It is behaves like a mafia organisation: with covert finances but without a constitution, legislature or elections, run by the country’s president and his closest associates.
05-Aug-2017 How Leave.EU threw its backing behind a far-right anti-migrant boat Articles
As the Italian navy enters Libyan territorial waters for the first time, they are joined by strange allies: Europe’s far right.
19-Jun-2017 Qatar’s conflict with its neighbours can easily set the Horn of Africa alight It began as a squabble between Arab allies, but the standoff between Qatar and its neighbours is threatening to engulf the Horn of Africa. When Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and the Maldives declared at the beginning of June that they were severing diplomatic relations with Qatar it appeared to be of interest mainly to the Arabian Peninsula – and the Gulf in particular.
13-Apr-2017 Eritreans in the Netherlands complain of pressure to support youth congress Articles
Claims of ‘systemic intimidation’ as top Eritrean official Yemane Gebreab arrives on Dutch soil to address youth wing of African country’s ruling party
04-Apr-2017 Jacob Zuma vs democratic South Africa - only one is likely to survive Articles
A bloody cabinet reshuffle has left South Africans divided and reeling.
26-Mar-2017 Reporting Conflict in Africa Journal articles
Media, War and Conflict, Vol 10, Issue 1, 2017
01-Oct-2016 Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa’s most repressive state Monographs
Hurst Publishers, October 2016
01-Aug-2016 F.Z.S. Peregrino, A Significant but Duplicitous Figure in the Black Atlantic World (with David Killingray), South African Historical Journal, August 2016
01-Jul-2016 Olive Schreiner and the Taaibosch derailment: From ‘Pro-Boer’ activism to networking with the early British Labour Party, Articles
Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 70, no 1, June 2016
01-Apr-2016 Promise and Despair: The first struggle for a non-racial South Africa, 1899 – 1914 Monographs
Jacana Media, April 2016
01-Jan-2016 Joseph Gerrans and Resistance to the Planned Incorporation of Botswana into the Union of South Africa, 1909 Articles
Botswana Notes and Records, Volume 47, 2016
01-Oct-2014 South Africa: How the ANC wins elections Journal articles
Review of African Political Economy 2014
31-Jul-2014 Keir Hardie's visit to South Africa, 1908 Journal articles
Bulletin of the South African Library
01-Jan-2014 New Light on Gandhi's Decisive South African Confrontation Articles
New Light on Gandhi's Decisive South African Confrontation
04-Dec-2013 Gandhi ’s Decisive South African 1913 Campaign: A Personal Perspective from the Letters of Betty Molteno Journal articles
Corder,Catherine and Plaut, Martin, Gandhi's decisive South African 1913 campaign: a presonal perspective from the letters of Betty Molteno. South African Historical Journal, (2013)
26-Jun-2013 How unstable is the Horn of Africa? Journal articles
Review of African Political Economy, Volume 40, Issue 136, 2013
How can one explain the apparent stability that has prevailed in the Horn since 1991? The overthrow of the Mengistu regime in Ethiopia and the de-facto independence of Eritrea paved the way for a period of stable government that had been absent for the many years. Stability is not peace, but one is struck by the fact that for more than two decades the key countries in the Horn have remained essentially under the same administrations or forms of government.
01-Jan-2012 Who Rules South Africa? Edited Book
Jonathan Ball, (with Paul Holden) ISBN 9781868424252
01-Jan-2010 Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the Second World War Edited Book
James Currey, (by David Killingray, with Martin Plaut) ISBN 1847010156
01-Jan-2010 South African Student Protest, 1968: Remembering the Mafeje Sit-in Articles
History Workshop Journal, Vol 69 No 1 pp. 199 - 205
01-Jan-2010 The Nile comes to the boil Articles
African Security Review, Vol 19 No 3 pp. 114 - 118
01-Jan-2010 South Africa: The ANC's difficult allies Articles
Review of African Political Economy, Vol 37 No 124, pp. 201 - 212
01-Jan-2007 Trading Guns for Gold: Pakistani Peacekeepers in the Congo Articles
Review of African Political Economy, Vol 34 No 113, (Sept 2007), pp580-588
01-Jan-2007 Ethiopia and Eritrea: Allergic to persuasion Papers
Royal Institute of International Affairs, (with Sally Healy)
01-Jan-2005 Unfinished Business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at war Edited Book
Red Sea Press, (editor, with Dominique Jacquin-Berdal)ISBN 1569022178
01-Jan-1999 War in the Horn Papers
Royal Institute of International Affairs, (with Patrick Gilkes) ISBN 1862030596
01-Jan-1984 Power! Black workers, their unions and the struggle for freedom in South Africa Edited Book
Spokesman Press, (with Denis MacShane and David Ward) ISBN 0851244114
Ethiopia's Oromo Liberation Front Articles
Review of African Political Economy, Vol 33, No 109 (Sept 2006), pp587-593
- Relevant Events
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Related events:
Date Details 06-Dec-2017 Talk on Promise and Despair: the first struggle for a non-racial South Africa’ 01-Nov-2017 Talk on 'Understanding Eritrea’ 19-Oct-2017 The European Union and Eritrea The position of Eritrean refugees seeking to flee their country has seldom been more dangerous. The obstacles they have to face – whether in crossing into Sudan or Ethiopia – remain considerable; the fate that awaits them on their journey to Europe is increasingly hazardous and their reception in Europe is frequently less than hospitable. Yet still they choose this difficult, draining option that leaves their families and communities torn apart, and vulnerable: a comment on how severe the human rights abuses remain in Eritrea itself.
17-Jul-2015 SCOLMA Annual Conference 2015 “Imagery of African troops”, to SCOLMA Annual Conference 2015, “There came a darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I
01-Jul-2015 Interviews with BBC Interviews with BBC, al-Jazeera, Monocle radio. Articles for the Guardian and New Statesman.
01-Jul-2015 Consultations with Foreign and Commonwealth Office and US State Department. Consultations with Foreign and Commonwealth Office and US State Department.
05-Dec-2014 Nelson Mandela: Myth and Reality Joint convenor with Keith Somerville