Thomas Mandrup is an Extraordinary Associate Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Associate Professor at Royal Danish Defence College, Denmark. He has published articles and book chapters and co-edited several books on issues related to African security governance, climate security in Africa, Peacemissions and South African foreign policy. Currently, he is finalizing a monograph on the South African National Defence Force.
He received his PhD in International Relations (2007) from the University Copenhagen, Denmark for a dissertation entitled: ‘Africa: Salvation or Despair? A study of the post-apartheid South African government’s use of the military tool in its foreign policy conduct from 1994 to 2006’. Prof. Mandrup was as a Doctoral Candidate attached to the Danish Institute of International Studies (DIIS). He has vast consultancy experience working for the UN, AU, ISS, Chatham House and diplomatic missions in Africa. From 2018-2020 he was the editor of the South African Journal of Military Studies. He has extensive fieldwork experience from, for instance, DR. Congo, Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Sudan. From 2016-17 he headed the African section of a larger EU funded project (Horizon 2020) on EU conflict management.
