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(Routledge, 2017-08)The Congo’s independence in 1960 was followed by unrest, intervention by Belgian troops, and the secession of the Katanga province. The United Nations Security Council authorized Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld to send ...
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(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018-02)A transnational wave of popular anger over liberal trade and the diplomacy that facilitates it was evident in the Brexit and Trump elections of 2016. Drawing upon an understanding of how the diplomacy of international trade ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes aim to contribute to sustainable peace of a country after a violent conflict. In the early 1990s, DDR programmes were predominantly aimed at male combatants ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This mini-dissertation examines the nexus between international co-operation in tourism and economic diplomacy through the lens of modern diplomatic practice. In this 21st century, characterised by globalisation, economic ...
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(Springer, 2018-02)This article develops the concept of food sovereignty while it critically reflects on its present status and future trajectories. The concept of food sovereignty provides an alternative framework for solutions to the human ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This study critically engages with the current security debate on the conceptual understanding of the Islamic State (IS). The study critically evaluates the dominant Western view within the debate that conceptualises IS ...
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(Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2012-08)The whole package, coming in at just over 300 pages, has the feel more of a scholarly book than it does a single journal issue, and it practically demands employment as such – for this volume has both the philosophical ...
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(Routledge, 2018)South Africa is among the leading outward foreign direct investor nations from emerging countries in the world. The country’s transnational corporations have investments in all the seven continents. The integration of the ...
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(Routledge, 2018)The economies of Africa require urgent structural transformation and the great challenge is how industrial development can aid this transformation process. China’s ability to sustain high productivity growth was underpinned ...
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(SUNMeDIA, 2017)This essay contextualises forms of mass violence and genocide in a historical perspective since the era of enlightenment. Western modernity and its notion of civilisation domesticated and colonised at home and abroad. ...
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(Elsevier, 2017-11)We present here a co-elaborative scenario building approach, called Participatory Prospective Analysis (PPA) and discuss its relevance for empowering local communities/organizations. This approach is adapted from the French ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The study examined the relationship between mass uprisings and insurgencies and the impact of international involvement on escalation of mass uprisings into an insurgency. The research used the insurgencies of the LRA ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Public diplomacy is an underutilised and underrated instrument in the conduct of South African foreign policy. Its direct and indirect support of diplomatic interventions lies in its value of being able to change the hearts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)As South Africa is a rapidly developing country and has become more increasingly technologically advanced through the growth in information communications technology (ICT) and the expansion of modern state infrastructure. ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2017)This article examines the activities and achievements of the European Union Water Initiative, a transnational, multi-actor partnership established in 2002 by the European Commission to support water governance reforms ...
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(Water Alternatives Association, 2017)For many years, South Africa had represented a typical example of a hydrocracy. Following the democratic transition in South Africa, however, new policy paradigms emerged, supported by new political elites from the ANC. A ...
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(Sage, 2017-08)Political unrest in 2014 threatened Lesotho’s newly found democratic stability. Observers focus on educating the public about the electoral system and encouraging pre-election coalition discussions. However, this analysis ...
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(Routledge, 2017-04)The constitution of European Union (EU) studies has long been an exclusionary process, both dealing extensively with internal debates and arguing for an own discipline within or even next to political sciences and international ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2016)South Africa adopted a human security orientation at the start of its democratic epoch in 1994, but its operationalisation by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) proved difficult to implement. Human security ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)As an important tool of state- and nation- building, capital city relocation is a policy option that is currently considered in more than 30 states around the world, including South Africa. The project is especially appealing ...
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