Dr. Stephen Emerson has spent more than 30 years working on African issues with the U.S. government and in academia. He is a southern Africa regional specialist, where he has lived and worked for many years, but has traveled widely across other parts of the continent too. His areas of professional research and interests include the nature of African terrorism, conflict and the politics of identity, the challenge of transnational and non-traditional threats, and war and conflict resolution. He is the author of dozens of classified and non-classified publications, including his comprehensive military history of the Frelimo-Renamo conflict The Battle for Mozambique (2014, Helion & Company). Dr. Emerson served as a political-military analyst with the U.S. Department of Defense, Security Studies Chair at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and headed the Africa regional studies program at the U.S. Naval War College. Dr. Emerson holds a doctorate in International Relations/Comparative Politics from the University of Florida.