Publications

Books

1. Elder, Claire. 2023. Diaspora Inc.: Elite Emigrant Power and Contested Governance in Global Somalia and Beyond (Finalised manuscript, submitted for review to OUP).

• Book Workshop July 2022 with Fiona Adamson (SOAS), Jonathon Fischer (Birmingham), Yoni Abrahamsen (Hebrew University), David Mwambari (KCL), and Gerasimos Tsourpas (Glasgow),

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2. Elder, Claire, John Heathershaw and Tena Prelic. 2024. "Reputational Lawfare: SLAPP Challenges to UK Academics", International Organisations (Submitted for review, January 2024).

3. Elder, Claire and Cameron deHart. 2023. 'Global Secession, American Empire and New Territorial Wars: US Politics of State Recognition (1973-2023)', International Studies Quarterly (Submitted for review, January 2024).

4. Elder, Claire and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert. 2023. ‘Global Fragilities: Violent Pluralities, Exilic Elites, and Weak States in World Politics’. International Studies Review (Under review, revised submitted).

5. Elder, Claire. 2022. ‘Logistics Contracts: The Making of Intra-Elite Conflict and State Failure in Somalia’. African Affairs 121, 484 (July): 395–417.

6. Elder, Claire. 2021. ‘Somaliland’s Authoritarian Turn: New Perspectives on Oligarchic-Corporate Power and the Political Economy of De Facto States’. International Affairs 97, no. 6 (November): 1749–1765.

• Winner, International Affairs Early Career Prize 2022.

• Winner, SSPS Early Career Prize, 2023.

Chapters

7. Elder, Claire, and Tobias Hagmann. 2023. ‘Making the Somali Economy: Trade Corridors, Economic Sectors and Business Networks’. In Trade Makes States: Governing the Greater Somali Economy, edited by Tobias Hagmann and Finn Stepputat. London: Hurst Publishers (in press).

Article-Length Works-in-Progress

8. Elder, Claire. 2022. 'Political Ethnography in IPE'. International Studies Perspective (accepted, online November 2022).

9. Elder, Claire, and Alex de Waal. ‘Rethinking the “Political Marketplace” and Post-war Politics’ (in progress).

10. Elder, Claire, Jon Schubert and Fabio Mattioli. ‘Brutal Economies: Applying African Insights to the Political Economy of Neo-Authoritarianism’ (in progress).

Working Papers

11. Kaldor, Mary, Radice, Henry, De Waal, Alex, Benson, Matthew, Detzner, Sarah, Elder, Claire, Hoffmann, Kasper, Ibreck, Rachel, Majid, Nisar, Morgan, Azaria, Mehchy, Zaki, Rangelov, Iavor, Sarkar, Aditya, Spatz, Benjamin J., Theros, Marika, Turkmani, Rim, Vlassenroot, Koen and Watkins, Jessica. 2020. Evidence from the Conflict Research Programme: submission to the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy. Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

12. Majid, Nisar, Aditya Sarkar, Claire Elder, Khalif Abdirahman, Sarah Detzner, Jared Miller and Alex De Waal. 2021. 'Somalia’s Politics: The Usual Business? A Synthesis Paper of the Conflict Research Programme'. Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

13. Elder, Claire, J Meester and A Uzelac. 2019. ‘Transnational Capital in Somalia: Blue Desert Strategy’. Conflict Research Unit: Working Paper Series on Fragile States, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael.

14. Elder, Claire, and A Hoffman. 2017. ‘Somalia’s Business Elites and Regional Political Settlements’. Conflict Research Unit: Working Paper Series on Fragile States, Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael and the World Bank.