Monographs

(2022) Revisiting state personhood and world politics: Identity, personality and the IR subject. New York & Oxon: Routledge (https://www.routledge.com/Revisiting-State-Personhood-and-World-Politics-Identity-Personality-and/Naude/p/book/9781032102306).

Peer-reviewed journal articles

(2026) Life narrative and the possibilities of self: South Africa`s position on Gaza and Ukraine through an ontological security lens. Journal of International Relations and Development 26(10) (https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-026-00376-x) 

(2023) Covid-19 travel bans and the reactivation of African trauma. International Affairs 99(3):1109-1126 (https://doi.org/iiad088).

(2019) Justice and restitution as themes of South Africa’s foreign relations: The search for ontological security. South African Journal of International Affairs 26(3): 435-454 (https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2019.1663759).

(2018) Beyond the lecture hall: Skills-building for first year political science students from a rural university campus. International Studies Perspectives 19: 235-249 (http://dx/doi/org/10.1093/isp/ekx014).

(2016) States have emotions too: An affect-centered approach to South African foreign relations. South African Journal of International Affairs 23(4): 475-493 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2016.1269244).

Chapters in edited volumes

(2023) (Re)thinking security for the African context. In African Security in the Anthropocene, edited by H. Solomon & J. Cocodia. Cham: Springer (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25151-1_2).

(2022) South African foreign policy and the search for ontological security. In South African Foreign Policy Review, Vol. 4, edited by J.A.K. van Wyk, L. Masters & P. Mthembu. Pretoria: HSRC. Pp. 21-37.

(2021) Beyond disciplinary dogma: An ontological security approach to terrorism and its study. In Directions in International Terrorism, edited by H. Solomon. Gateway: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 11-31 (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3380-5_2).

(2019) Regionalism as resistance? South Africa’s utopia of Souths. In Revisiting Regionalism and The Contemporary World Order, edited by É. Féron, J. Käkönen & G. Rached. Leverkusen-Opladen & Toronto: Barbara Budrich Publishers. Pp. 105-130.

Other scholarly outputs

(2016) Reflections on a continent torn between yesterday and tomorrow. Review of Kevin Bloom and Richard Poplak, “Continental Shift: A Journey into Africa’s Changing Fortunes”. Historia 61(2): 144-146.

Conference, panels, and workshop organisation

(2026) Convenor & discussant: “Agency and order in unmade (or unmakeable) worlds”, Roundtable at the International Studies Association (ISA) Midyear conference, Pretoria, South Africa, 30 June – 02 July 2026.

(2026) Co-convenor with Dr Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University, Sweden): “The state, personified: Whither IR’s contested subject”, Panel at the 2026 British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom, 2-5 June. 

(2026) Co-convenor with Dr Nina C. Krickel-Choi (Lund University, Sweden): “Ontological (in)security and the politics of state personhood”, Panel at the 2026 British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom, 2-5 June. 

(2026) Organiser & Discussant: “South Africa’s Third Transition: Elite competition and public service rationalisation”, Public Lecture by Prof Ivor Chipkin, Director, New South Institute, South Africa, 29 May 2026.

(2023) Organiser: “Youth resilience – It takes a village (and then some)”, Engaged scholarship seminar organised under the auspices of the UFS Engaged Scholarship Committee, Mariott Protea Hotel, Clarens, South Africa, 23 August. Speaker: Prof Linda Theron, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Invited presentations and workshops

(2025) States as distributed persons: A mycorrhizal approach to political collectivity. Invited public lecture at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Johannesburg, 16 September.

(2024) More than survival: Climate, security, and the human right to thrive. Invited opening address at the Conference on Climate Change and its Impact on African Security. Organized by jointly by the UFS Center for Gender and Africa Studies and The Global Action to Prevent War, 18 March.

(2022) "Women in Foreign Policy Research". Roundtable organized by the British International Studies Association (BISA) Foreign Policy Working Group (08 March). https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/fpwg/events/women-foreign-policy-research-and-beyond.

(2022) “`I know my truth`: Grappling with reality and relativism in the South African decolonization discourse". Paper presented at the Limits of Decolonization Seminar, Bloemfontein, ZA (24 February)

(2021) "An unbearable likeness of Being: Ontological insecurity and the creation of enemy others". Paper presented at a webinar on the Politics of Othering and Discrimination, organized jointly by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and the University of the Free State, (21 April). Available online at: https://isgap.org/media/2021/04/the-politics-of-othering-and-discrimination/.

(2017) "Education for Sustainable Development: Revisiting transformation for the Qwaqwa context". Presentation at the 2017 Qwaqwa Research Day on invitation of the Vice-Principal for Academic Affairs. Phuthaditjhaba, ZA (21 June).

(2017) "Beyond the lecture hall: Teaching for Sustainable Development". Presentation at the Inaugural UFS Teaching and Learning Conference on invitation of the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning. Bloemfontein, ZA (10 March). 

Selected conference papers

(2026) On unity and hierarchy: Fault lines in the debate on state personhood. Paper presented at the 2026 BISA Annual Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom, 02-05 June.

(2025) Research as rupture and repair: The narrative mediation of ontological insecurity in social research. Paper presented at the Inaugural BISA-ISA Joint International Workshop, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 10-12 October.

(2024) Navigating vicarious trauma in International Relations scholarship: An autoethnographic reflection. Paper presented at the 2024 Virtual Conference of the International Studies Association, 02 August.

(2023) "Out damned spot; out!" Self-hate, identification reaction, and catharsis in intergroup conflict. Paper presented at the International Symposium on Hate speech at the crossroads of aggression, anxiety, and resonance: From linguistics to politics and beyond. Public Discourse Research Group, University of Navara, Pamplona, Spain (06-07 June 2023). 

(2022) "Dealing with a bruised ego: A former colony’s journey with the emotions of guilt, humiliation, pride and shame". Paper to be presented at the Symposium on Emotions and Foreign Policy in Global International Relations: The West and the Rest. Public Discourse Research Group, Navarra, Spain, (07-08 June).

(2021) "Narcissism and the IR Subject: Toward a theory of state personality". Paper presented at the 2021 IPSA World Congress of Political Science, Lisbon, Portugal (11 July).

(2020) "South Africa`s Africa Agenda: A mea culpa to the continent?". Paper presented at the 2020 CEAPS Conference, Bloemfontein, ZA (10 February).

(2019) "The South African Self as the Colonial Other". Paper presented at the 2019 CEAPS Conference, Bloemfontein, ZA (11 February).

(2018) "Regionalism as resistance? South Africa`s utopia of Souths". Paper presented at the Regional Challenges to Multilateralism conference, Tampere, FI (14 September).

(2016) "States have emotions too: South African Foreign Policy as product of collective affect". Paper presented at the 70th annual conference of the New York State Political Science Association, New Paltz, USA (22 April).

IR Theory; State Personhood; Social Ontology; Metaphysics; Psychoanalysis.

Evolutions in the Global Order; The International Relations of the Global South; Foreign Policy Analysis; Research Methodology.