NANA KWASI AMOATENG

Highly-motivated academic with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively across different disciplines and quickly mastering new skills.

• Tillin-Eddy, A., ‘Did World War I and World War II really end: Defining war based on the outcomes’, The Scholar, 1, 17, 23-24, 2021, https://thebrilliantclub.org/research-and-impact/the-scholar/
• Sadowska, H., ‘How democratic is the United Kingdom?’, The Scholar, 1, 15, 35-36, 2020, https://thebrilliantclub.org/research-and-impact/the-scholar/
• Saleem, H., ‘What is war?’, The Scholar, 1, 14, 31-32, 2020, https://thebrilliantclub.org/research-and-impact/the-scholar/

• VAD2024 Conference, 09/30/24 - 10/02/24, ‘Limitations of black capitalism: lessons from the pre-colonial chiefless states’, https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/vad2024/paper/82016
• European PPE Network 2024 Conference, 04/26/24 - 04/27/24, ‘Repositioning African philosophy, politics, and economics in the pre-colonial chiefless states’, https://philevents.org/event/show/116913
• International Conference on Foreign Policy and International Relations, 02/12/24 - 02/13/24, ‘Rethinking international relations theory through the lens of outside-in logic of state-building’, https://publications.waset.org/abstracts/181454/rethinking-international-relations-theory-through-the-lens-of-outside-in-logic-of-state-building
• Departmental Seminar Series, Legon Center for International Affairs and Diplomacy, University of Ghana, 12/05/23, ‘Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy’.
• Webster University, Ghana Campus, 04/07/22, ‘Strategies for Composing Excellent Essays’.
• Nigeria Research Day, Department for International Development, University of Oxford, 06/23/16, ‘Containing resource conflict in a context of low human development: the case of the Niger-Delta (2009 – 2015)’.

• 'Power and Prestige in Black Diplomacy’, Journal of Black Studies, 55(2), 139-157, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347231213409
• 'International Political Economy of Africapitalism.’, African Political and Economic Philosophy with Africapitalism: Concepts for African Leadership, E-S Essien & F. A. Abumere, 45 - 60, 2024, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666931112/African-Political-and-Economic-Philosophy-with-Africapitalism-Concepts-for-African-Leadership.
• 'Military coups in Africa: a continuation of politics by other means?’, Conflict Trends, ACCORD, 2022, https://www.accord.org.za/conflict-trends/military-coups-in-africa-a-continuation-of-politics-by-other-means/.
• 'Millennium Development Goals: Tool or token of global social governance?’, UNU-MERIT Working Paper Series #2014-024, Mueid Al Raee, Elvis Amoateng, Elvis Avenyo, Youssef Beshay, Mira Bierbaum, Charlotte Keijser & Rashmi Sinha, 2014, http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5397.
• 'Hegel and the problem of unity in plurality of philosophies?’, JOGOO Revue de Philosophie Africaine et de Culture No 001, 199-218, forthcoming.
• Political Economy of Violence and Counterinsurgencies: A Particular Focus on Conflict Amnesties in Nigeria, Routledge, under review.
• 'The false promise of democratization waves in post-colonial Africa: lessons from pre-colonial chiefless states’, Review of International Studies, under review.
• 'The two worlds: repetition of history in the 21st Century, Harvard University Press, Frank A. Abumere & Nana Kwasi Amoateng, under review.
• 'Rethinking International Relations Theory through the Lens of Outside-in Logic of State-Building’, work in progress.
• 'Repositioning African philosophy, politics, and economics in the pre-colonial chiefless states’, work in progress.
• 'Security forces and civil movements in African politics’, work in progress.
• 'The African Continental Free Trade Area: a necessary illusion to be pursued?, work in progress.
• 'Political economy of galamsey: from containment to resolution of Ghana’s environmental conflict’, work in progress.
• 'Unpacking nocturnal democracy in post-colonial Africa’, work in progress.
• 'Limitations of black capitalism in the post-colony: lessons from the pre-colonial chiefless states’, work in progress.

• International Week Committee, University of Ghana, Member, 02/2023 - 12/2023
• College of Humanities Research Board, University of Ghana, Member, 03/2023 - 12/2023
• Warwick in Africa, University of Warwick, Associate Programme Coordinator, 04/2018 - 09/2018
• Society of Jesus, Ghana & Nigeria, Member, 08/2003 - 05/2010