Dr Sue Onslow

Dr Sue Onslow is an Associate of the Africa International Affairs programme| at LSE IDEAS. 

She was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of War Studies, at King's College, London, and a Research Fellow at the University of the West of England. She is also currently a guest lecturer in the Department for International Development at the LSE, and on the Editorial Board of the Cold War History journal. She is a member of Chatham House, a member of the Advisory Board for the Marjan Project for Conflict and Wildlife Conservation (King's College) and on the board of the Young People in International Affairs at Monash SA University, South Africa.

Sue Onslow is a leading British oral-history historian, and just completed a £240,000 two-year AHRC-funded interview programme on the Rhodesia UDI era, as the Principal Investigator and lead interviewer. She has published extensively on post-war British foreign policy, South Africa, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and the Cold War in the region. She is preparing a monograph on South Africa and the Rhodesian UDI period, to be published in 2012.

Areas of Expertise

• British modern imperial history in the Middle East and Africa
• Southern African history in the Cold War era (with particular reference to South Africa and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe)
• White minority governments, national liberation struggles and their legacies in contemporary Southern African politics and society

Recent Publications

• Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power Black Liberation (London: Routledge, 2009)
• 'The Cold War in Southern Africa, 1975-1994', In: Leffler, M and Westad, OA (eds.) Cambridge History of the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009). [with Professor Christopher Saunders]
• Zimbabwe: Land and the Lancaster House Settlement, British Scholar, September 2009
• The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Media space and the end of the Cold War in Southern Africa, in Kalinovsky A and Radchenko,  (eds) The End of the Cold War and The Third World. New Perspectives on Regional Conflict (London : Routledge: 2011)
• Political Transition in Zimbabwe, for the Bureau of Intelligence, US Department of State (2011)

News

• BBC iPlayer - Newsnight: 01/03/2011
  Sue Onslow and Niall Ferguson comment on government plans to stop direct development aid to 16 countries and freeze the level of assistance given to India in an episode of Newsnight that aired on the BBC on 1 March.
• New Issue of IDEAS Today
  IDEAS' region-by-region review of international affairs over the last twelve months features IDEAS Philippe Roman Chair Professor Niall Ferguson disucssing the nature of global trends.
• MSc in International Strategy and Diplomacy
  New Course: 2011-12 - Strategy in an Age of Global Risk. This is a new and unique Executive Masters Programme for high-flyers dealing with international affairs, defence, and international business and finance. It is is particularly suitable for those proceeding to senior positions where they will need to think more strategically.
• Cold War in Southern Africa: white power, black liberation, edited by Sue Onslow
  Adrian Guelke: Sue Onslow - Head of LSE IDEAS Africa Programme, "makes the largest contribution to the book...thoughtfully reviews the implications of the archival evidence referred to by the other authors for historical judgements on the Cold War’s effect."
• Cold War in Southern Africa
  
• Interview with former South African Foreign Minister R.F. "Pik" Botha
  As South African Foreign Minister from 1977 to 1994 RF 'Pik' Botha was deeply involved in domestic and regional politics, including regional conflicts and the final transition of the apartheid government to black majority rule in 1994.