David Styan

Lecturer in Politics

Contact details

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 6616
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6787
Email: d.styan@bbk.ac.uk

International political economy; foreign policy analysis and development issues; French and British foreign policy, particularly towards Africa, the Middle East and development policy
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France and Iraq: oil,arms and French policy making in the Middle East, IB Tauris and Palgrave USA, 235p, 2006 (External link)
(Editor and editorial introduction) Underdevelopment in Ethiopia (Addis Ababa, Organisation for Social Science Research in East Africa, 2004), a posthumous collection of essays by Eshetu Chole, Ethiopia's leading 20th-century economist. 350 pages. In the UK distributed by African Books Collective (External link)
'Twisting Ethio-Eritrean economic ties: misperceptions of war and the misplaced priorities of peace', in Jacquin-Berdal, D. Plaut M. (eds.) (New Jersey, USA: Read Sea Press, 2005), pp177-200
'Jacques Chirac's 'non': France, Iraq and the United Nations, 1991-2003', in Modern and Contemporary France, Vol 12, No.3, 2004, pp371-385.

David Styan has a DEA from the Centre of African Studies in Bordeaux, and a PhD from London School of Economics (department of international relations).
In addition to his research on French foreign policy decision making and France's trade in oil and arms with the Middle East, he has written extensively on the Horn of Africa, most notably on the Ethiopian economy.

David Styan joined Birkbeck to head the School's MSc/MRes in Global Politics, and establish the MSc in Development Studies, run from the Faculty of Continuing Education.
His postgraduate teaching covers International Political Economy, and Politics and Development of Post-Colonial States.
His undergraduate teaching focuses on Politics and the Middle East, and Democracy and authoritarianism.