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(Routledge, 2018)Anti-colonial movements secured political power as governments in countries of Southern Africa. Populist discourses, which reinforce the patriotic history and heroic narratives of a ‘big men’ syndrome, are part of their ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2018)Please read abstract in article.
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) as a coalition acting within the global governance architecture has been met with skepticism and guarded enthusiasm. After ten years in existence, the ...
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(Routledge, 2018)The commencement of opal mining in Ethiopia a decade ago has attracted the involvement of poor peasants, wealthy traders and traffickers. Although the academic and official literature on artisanal small-scale opal mining ...
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(Publshing House V.Ема, 2018)This article analyses the recent Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) military intervention in the Gambia, primarily focusing on possible legal bases for the enforcement action. It examines the political ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019-02-21)The study aimed to determine whether Al-Shabaab’s affiliation to Al-Qaeda contributes to its capacity to instigate mass casualty attacks. In doing so, the study analysed the number of attacks instigated by Al-Itihad ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Kenya is increasingly gaining a global profile. Over the last four years, the country has played host to a number of global leaders and has hosted a number of global events. This emerging global prominence, underpinned by ...
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(Routledge, 2018)One of the main implications of the push for transition from the monoculture of Eurocentric scientific knowledge towards the ecology of knowledge is to force us to pose the question: what does a decolonial turn in International ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The concepts of national security and civil liberties have had a conflictual relationship throughout the history of human societies. Most societies have always strived to create a form of government that will maximise the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Relative to mainstream diplomacy, collaborative diplomacy is a form of diplomacy that does not yet have a fixed definition. Scholars have over the years distinguished different approaches to this concept. The concept is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study investigates Nuclear Terrorism as a possible threat to Africa by means of a systematic literature review. The danger posed by terrorist groups in acquiring and using nuclear, chemical or biological weapons is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)The question of post-independence stability, its constraints and its prospects in South Sudan is explored from a variety of perspectives in this study. Central to the discussion is the view that nation and state building, ...
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Understanding peaceful and violent nation-building through leadership : a case study of South Sudan (University of Pretoria, 2018)Peace-building has reached a cross-roads. The high instance of conflict relapse in “post-conflict” societies has stimulated an examination of dominant peace-building thinking and practice. This research contributes to this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Since 1994 the number of migrants to South Africa has significantly increased and there has been a growing population of economic, female migrants in and around the country's big cities. At the same time, with the increase ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This study assesses South Africa’s approach to human rights in international forums in light of its status in international relations. In order to conduct this assessment, the study situates South Africa as a “middle” or ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1987)The aim of this historical-analytical study is to examine the 1983 referendum in South Africa. On 2 November 1983 the white electorate was asked to vote on the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983, (Act 110 ...
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(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2018-03-27)Attempts to improve the policy environment have led to a growing pressure on governments in Africa to embark on policymaking that is more evidence based and considers a wide spectrum of scientific and indigenous knowledge. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)South Africa’s post-1994 leadership in multilateral forums and its efforts to be a bridge-builder and norm-entrepreneur in the international arena, have earned it the label of ‘middle power’. The label itself is contentious, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate how the Women, Gender and Development Directorate of the African Union promotes its Gender Agenda. This dissertation is contributing to a niche as gender and the African Union ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Peace Operations (POs) continue to be the vehicle of choice when addressing and/or managing societies that are either in, or are emerging from, conflict. As evidenced by the existence of the 1999 White Paper on South African ...
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