Okey Chris Iheduru joined the Arizona State University faculty in fall of 2004. He received his bachelor's from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, his master's from the University of Akron, and his doctorate from the University of Connecticut. Professor Iheduru is the author of "The Political Economy of International Shipping in Developing Countries" (1996). He has written numerous book chapters, as well as articles in journals such as International Studies Review, Review of International Political Economy, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, African Affairs, Journal of Modern African Studies, Journal of Developing Areas, Ocean Development and International Law, and Maritime Policy and Management. In 2005, he was elected chair of the Executive Committee of the Southern Interdisciplinary Research on Africa (SIRAS). He was a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Scholar in South Africa in 2000-2001, and has consulted for the World Bank and the Canadian International Development Agency/SPCS Transport Consortium on the maritime policies of African states. He is also a visiting professor-at-large of national security governance at the Nigerian Defense Academy, Kaduna, Nigeria. His current teaching interests straddle comparative politics and international relations; while his current research interests are focused on social transformation and military leadership, state-mediated capitalism and comparative capitalism; and cross-border non-state actors and changes in African political economy and regional integration.
His current research interests are focused on contemporary transformations in capitalism (varieties of capitalism in Africa; "Africapitalism", state-mediated capitalism/neo-developmental states; government-business relations); migrant transnationalism and transformations in government-citizen relations; and formal and informal cross-border non-state actors and changes in regional integration (business, transnational religious organizations, transnational terrorism, etc.).
“Business and Social Construction of Regional Identity and Integration in Africa” in Kenneth Amaeshi and Uwaifiokun Idemudia (eds.), Africapitalism, Entrepreneurs, and Socio-Economic Development: Problems, Paradoxes, and Possibilities (Routledge, 2019), pp. 37-59.
“The African Corporation, ‘Africapitalism’ and Regional Integration in Africa” in Andreas Nölke and Christian May (eds.), Handbook of the International Political Economy of the Corporation (Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy Series) (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2018), pp. 329-345.
“Leadership, Critical Thinking and Nigeria’s Social Cohesion Conundrum,” in Patrick C. Osakwe (ed.), Leadership and Complex Military Operations in Nigeria (Kaduna: Nigerian Defense Academy Press, 2015), pp. 1-24.
“Social Transformation and Military Leadership: The Nigerian Army and Fourth Generation Wars,” in Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi (eds.), Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa: Leadership in Transformation (New York: Palgrave/ Macmillan, 2015).
“Organized Private Sector and Regional Integration in Africa,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 22, no. 5 (October 2015), pp. 910-940.
“Nigeria: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Democratizing Society,” in Jeffrey Kopstein, Mark Lichbach and Stephen E. Hanson (editors), Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp. 506-568.
“Civil Society and Regional Integration in West Africa,” in Lorenzo Fioramonti (ed.), Civil Society and World Regions. How Citizens Are Reshaping Regional Governance in Times of Crisis (Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman Littlefield, 2013).
“The ‘New’ ECOWAS: Implications for the Study of Regional Integration,” in Tim M. Shaw, Scarlett Corneliessen and J. Andrew Grant (eds.), The Research Companion to Regionalisms (Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishers, 2011);
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POS 486 | Internatl Political Economy |
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POS 359 | African Politics and Society |
POS 465 | International Organization/Law |
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POS 465 | International Organization/Law |
POS 486 | Internatl Political Economy |
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POS 359 | African Politics and Society |
POS 486 | Internatl Political Economy |
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POS 160 | Global Politics |
POS 465 | International Organization/Law |
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POS 584 | Internship |
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POS 359 | African Politics and Society |
POS 486 | Internatl Political Economy |
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POS 160 | Global Politics |
POS 465 | International Organization/Law |
POS 590 | Reading and Conference |
POS 790 | Reading and Conference |