Joseph Hanlon (born 1941) is ajournalist,social scientist and Senior Lecturer inDevelopment Policy and Practice at theOpen University,Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. Born in the United States, he moved toBritain in 1971.^[1]

His areas of interest areMozambique;international aid and development; and the course and resolution ofcivil wars.^{[citation needed]} He has resided in Mozambique for considerable periods and is one of the most knowledgeable people in the English-speaking world on that country's current affairs and history over the last several decades.^{[citation needed]}

Hanlon has abachelor's degree fromMIT, and aPh.D. inhigh-energy physics fromTufts University. Before moving to Mozambique and specializing in the problems ofdeveloping countries, he was an editor ofComputerworld^[2] and technology policy editor ofNew Scientist.^[3]

• Mozambique: The Revolution Under Fire. 1984, London,Zed Books.ISBN 0-86232-940-X.
• Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa. 1986.James Currey.ISBN 0-85255-305-6.
• Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000. With Frances Christie, 1986.Indiana University Press.ISBN 0-253-21473-4.
• The Sanctions Handbook. With Roger Omond, 1987, Harmondsworth,Penguin Books.ISBN 0-14-052388-X.
• Mozambique: Who Calls the Shots?. 1991.James Currey /Indiana University Press.ISBN 0-85255-346-3.
• “Renewed land debate and the ‘cargo cult’ in Mozambique”,Journal of Southern African Studies, Vol 30(3) (year: 2004), 603–626.
• Civil War, Civil Peace. Edited by Helen Yanacopulos and Joseph Hanlon, 2006. Chapters 1–5 by Joseph Hanlon.James Currey /Ohio University Press /The Open University.ISBN 0-89680-249-3.
• "Illegitimate" loans: Lenders, not borrowers are responsible',Third World Quarterly 27(2) (year:2006): 211–226.
• "Wolfowitz, the World Bank, and Illegitimate Lending",The Brown Journal of World Affairs. 13(2) (year: 2007): 41-54
• Is Poverty Decreasing in Mozambique? (2007)
• Do Bicycles Equal Development in Mozambique?. With Teresa Smart, 2008.James Currey.ISBN 978-1-84701-319-4.
• Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South. With Armando Barrientos and David Hulme, 2010.Kumarian Press.ISBN 978-1-56549-333-9.
• "Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change:Keeping Our Heads above Water". WithManoj Roy andDavid Hulme, 2016. Anthem Press.ISBN 978-1-78308-633-7.^[4]

• Faculty home page at the Development Policy and Practice department at the Open University, U.K.
• Personal page at the Open University
• Links to articles by Joseph Hanlon

• 1941 births
• Living people
• 20th-century British social scientists
• 21st-century British social scientists

• All articles with unsourced statements
• Articles with unsourced statements from July 2008