Harry Verhoeven is Senior Research Scholar at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and the Convenor of the Oxford University China-Africa Network. His books include Why Comrades Go to War (with Philip Roessler), Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan and Beyond Liberal Order: States, Societies and Markets in the Global Indian Ocean (with Anatol Lieven). He is Senior Adviser to the European Institute of Peace.