Curriculum Vitae

CANDICE ELEANOR MOORE

Born: Johannesburg, South Africa

Profile: I am a mid-career academic in International Relations with world-class qualifications and a growing body of research with an extensive teaching record. My specialisms are the politics of the Global South, and the foreign policies of South Africa and Brazil. I am currently working on human rights in South Africa’s foreign policy, Brazil’s Africa policy in the second Lula era, and political thought on ‘the international’ in Africa.

Current Position: Senior Lecturer, International Relations Department, University of the Witwatersrand

Email: Candice.moore@wits.ac.za

EDUCATION

PhD London School of Economics and Political Science (International Relations, 2012): “Governing Parties and Southern Internationalism: a neoclassical realist approach to the foreign policies of South Africa and Brazil, 1999-2010”

MPhil University of Cambridge (International Relations, 2002): “International Migration in Southern Africa: The efficacy of a regional approach”

B.A. Honours University of Johannesburg (Political Studies and Communication Studies, 2000)

AWARDS AND HONOURS

Y-Rated Researcher, National Research Foundation of South Africa (2018-2023), Awarded to researchers under the age of 40 showing great promise in their field.

Best Honours Student, South African Association of Political Science, 2000

POSITIONS HELD

Senior Lecturer, International Relations Department, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2021-present

Senior Lecturer, International and Public Affairs Cluster, School of Social Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015-June 2021

Senior Researcher, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), 2014-2015

Senior Researcher and Lecturer, National Research Foundation Chair in African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg, 2012-2014

Editor-in-Chief, African Security Review, 2017-2019

Co-editor, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2006-8

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

Awarded grant to write a report on the role of the South African Human Rights Commission in Combatting Human Trafficking, 2020 (with Dr Monique Emser)

National Research Foundation of South Africa Incentive Funding for Rated Researchers 2018

Abbey Santander funding to continue fieldwork for PhD, 2009

International Relations Department, LSE funding for graduate student research in 2009 and 2010.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

Edited Books:

Moore, Candice (ed.), 2013. Regional Integration and Social Cohesion: A view from the developing world¸ Peter Lang Publishers: Brussels, September 2013.

Journal Articles:

Chris Desmond, Kathryn Watt, Palwendé R. Boua, Candice Moore, Agnes Erzse, Hermann Sorgho, Karen Hofman, Toussaint Roumba, Halidou Tinto, Kate A. Ward. 2023. “Investing in human development and building state resilience in fragile contexts: A case study of early nutrition investments in Burkina Faso”, PLOS Global Public Health, e0001737. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001737

Moore, Candice. 2022. “BRICS and Global Health Diplomacy in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Situating BRICS’ diplomacy within the prevailing global health context”, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Vol 65(2).

Wright, Caradee, Candice Moore, Matthew Chersich, Rebecca Hester, Patricia Schwerdtle, Guy Mbayo, Charles Akong, Colin Butler. 2021. “A Transdisciplinary Approach to address Climate Change Adaptation for Human Health and Well-Being in Africa”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol. 18, Issue 8, p.4258

Moore, Candice. 2019. “Editorial”, African Security Review, Vol.27, Issues 3 and 4, pp.191-192.

Moore, Candice. 2017. “Internationalism in the Global South: The evolution of an idea”, in Journal of Asian and African Studies, Vol.53, Issue 6 (September 2018).

Moore, Candice. 2015. “Thabo Mbeki and South Africa’s African Identity: A review of twenty years of South Africa’s Africa policy”, African Identities, Vol.12, Issue 3-4, pp. 371-389.  

With S Zondi. 2015. “IBSA’s Global Role: An African Perspective” Journal of Developing Societies, Vol. 31(4), pp.488-512.

Moore, Candice. 2014. “What Mbeki did Next: Continuities in the presidential and post-presidential diplomacy of Thabo Mbeki”, South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol.21, Issue 2, pp. 161-175.

Moore, Candice.2013 “Twenty Years On, It’s All Academic: Progressive Academics and Moral Foreign Policy After Apartheid”, Politikon, Vol.40, Issue 3, pp.545-563.

With Chris Landsberg, 2013. “BRICS, South-South Cooperation and the Durban Summit: What’s in it for South Africa?” in Portuguese Journal of International Affairs, No.7, Spring/Summer 2013. (50% contribution)

With Chris Landsberg. 2011. “South Africa’s Libya Vote: How is Foreign Policy Decided?” in New Agenda, Fourth Quarter, pp.72-76 (50% contribution).

Chapters in Books:

1. Moore, Candice. 2023. “Brazil-Africa  relations over the last two decades: Politics, economics, security and race, and the promise unfulfilled”, in forthcoming untitled book project on Africa’s Strategic Relations with the BRICS (University of Johannesburg Press)

2. Moore, Candice. 2016. “South Africa, IBSA and human rights:  a selective relationship?”, in Shifting Power and Human Rights Diplomacy: South Africa. Amnesty International: Netherlands.

3. Moore, Candice. 2016. “Disciplining the Developing World? Perspectives from a South African IR”, in Bischoff Paul-Henri, Kwesi Aning and Amitav Acharya (eds.), 2016, Africa in Global International Relations: Emerging Approaches to Theory and Practice, Routledge: London.

4. Moore, Candice. 2015. “Chapter 9: South Africa’s Relations with Latin America: An opportunity foregone?”, in Masters, Lesley, Siphamandla Zondi, Jo-Ansie van Wyk and Chris Landsberg (eds.), South African Foreign Policy Review: Volume 2, Africa Institute of South Africa: Braamfontein.

5. Moore, Candice. 2014. “Twenty Years On, It’s All Academic: Progressive Academics and Moral Foreign Policy After Apartheid”, in Vale, Peter and Pieter Fourie (eds.). 2014. Political Science in South Africa: The Last Forty Years. Routledge: London.

6. Moore, Candice. 2013. “Introduction: Social Cohesion and the Challenges of Integration: An unfolding African response?” in Candice Moore (ed.), Regional Integration and Social Cohesion: A view from the developing world, Peter Lang Publishers: Brussels, September 2013.

Other Publications (Non-refereed):

1. Moore, Candice. 2019. “Review: Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Security, Diplomacy and Trade”, in South African Journal of International Affairs, Vol.26, Issue 2, pp.317-318. (Book Review).

2. Moore, Candice Eleanor. 2014. “Technical Session 5: Chapter 9: Challenges of Inclusive and Sustainable Development” VI BRICS Academic Forum, editors, Das Neves, Renato and Tamara Farias, FUNAG and IPEA, pp. 123-136

3. Moore, Candice. 2014. “Review: Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Continental embededness, transnational linkages, strategic relevance”, in African Journal on Conflict Resolution, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp.129-133. (Book Review).

4. Moore, Candice. 2014. “Review: African Agency in International Politics”, in Insight Turkey, Fall 2014 Volume 16, No.4, pp251-252. (Book Review). https://www.insightturkey.com/author/candice-moore/african-agency-in-international-politics

5. Moore, Candice. 2014. “Twenty years young: South Africa’s political role in the new international architecture of development”, Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa, CiHA Blog, Accessible at: http://www.cihablog.com/twenty-years-young-south-africas-political-role-in-the-new-international-architecture-of-development/?ak_action=reject_mobile

   5. Moore, Candice. 2013. “Review: Africa and International Relations in the Twenty-First Century”, in Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol.31, No.4. (Book Review)

INVITED TALKS:

“Scholar-Practitioner Interactions in the Global South”, ISA in the World Webinar, 1 February 2023.

“Internationalism in the Global South: The Evolution of an Idea”, Department of Politics and International Relations, Rhodes University, 13 March 2017.

“The elephant in the room? Peace and Security in the BRICS partnership: Towards the 6th BRICS Summit”, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), 19 June 2014.

Comment on the Occasion of the Release of the 2013 UNDP Report for Southern Africa. Hosted by SARChI Chair, African Foreign Policy and Diplomacy, UJ Bunting Road, 2013.

SUPERVISION:

I have supervised three PhD students to completion (graduated April 2018, September 2021 and April 2022). I am currently supervising 4 Masters candidates, and have supervised 2 other candidates to completion. I have supervised close to 40 Honours dissertations to completion at University of Johannesburg, UKZN and Wits combined. I have examined PhD and Masters dissertations for a number of South African Universities.

PROFESSIONAL and COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES:

Co-Editor: African Studies (Taylor and Francis) (March 2023-2026)

External Moderator (exit level modules), Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University (2023-2025)

Return to Campus (RTC) Representative (School of Social Sciences), Wits University (September 2022 - present)

PhD Admissions and Supervision Coordinator, IR Department, Wits University (2021- Present)

Editor-in-Chief: African Security Review (January 2017-April 2019)

Reviewer: Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA), Journal of African and Asian Studies, Politikon, South African Journal of International Affairs (SAJIA), African Security Review

Advanced Course on Using Ulwazi (Canvas) to Teach (2022)

University Education Induction Programme, UKZN encompassing modules in Postgraduate Supervision, Curriculum Design, Assessment, and Teaching and Learning (2015-2019)

Postgraduate Certificate (Higher Education, Associate Level), London School of Economics (2009-2010) with attention to managing diversity among students, assessing student work and learning theory.

Postgraduate Certificate (Economics), University of the Witwatersrand (2003-2004)

Peace Research Course, University of Oslo Summer School, June 2003-August 2003

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:

International Studies Association (ISA), British International Studies Association (BISA)

Editorial Board Member:  Palgrave Series on Global Foreign Policy, Latin American Report,  and African Security Review

MEDIA INTERVIEWS:

TV5 Monde, March 2022

REFEREES: Upon request