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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This study is situated within an International Political Economy (IPE) approach and centres on an analysis of the World Bank’s ‘development knowledge’. This is a term used in the dissertation to describe the pool of knowledge ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This research assesses the mediating role of the Director General (DG) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as Chair of the Trade Negotiations Committee (TNC). The departure point of this paper is that the character of ...
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(Institute for Security Studies, 2015-03)This paper explores the changing power capabilities of Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa (the ‘Big Five’) over the next 25 years. Of these countries, Ethiopia and Nigeria are forecast to increase their ...
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(German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), 2014)On 7 May 2014, less than half a year after the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africans democratically elected for the fourth time since 1994 the country’s national parliament and the various provincial governments. In a ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2014-03)Although much has been written about the ideology of Laurent Gbagbo’s Front Populaire Ivoirien in Côte d’Ivoire and its impact on the Ivorian politicomilitary crisis, little attention has been paid to the ubiquitous ...
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(Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2014-01)War es ein Unfall oder ein Attentat? Noch heute gibt der Tod des damaligen UN-Generalsekretärs Dag Hammarskjöld Rätsel auf. Fest steht, dass er bei einem Flugzeugabsturz über Afrika ums Leben kam. Eine 2012 einberufene ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2014)Over the past 20 years of democracy, there has been a strategic reorientation of South Africa's trade policy. In the early 1990s, the postapartheid state undertook extensive tariff reform, driven by its multilateral and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study is an analysis of how military issues can contribute to a sustainable ending of civil wars particularly in Africa. The continuous warfare in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 1996 and 2004 is ...
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(Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, 2014)No abstract available.
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(Wiley, 2014-04)The world‟s most powerful number, the gross domestic product (GDP), was invented exactly 80 years ago.1 It was indeed in 1934 that a young economist by the name of Simon Kuznets (who would later on receive a Nobel Prize ...
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(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)The EADI General Conference 2014 under the title “Responsible Development in a Polycentric World. Inequality, Citizenship and the Middle Classes” happened to be more mainstream than maybe anticipated at the time when the ...
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(Routledge, 2015-03)This article sets out the challenges facing the practice of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) in developing countries and then goes on to propose a set of guiding principles with which to attempt to overcome these. The ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2014)South Africans often proudly proclaim that our Constitution is one of the most progressive in the world. Yet if you ask most South Africans how they really feel about gay rights, abortion and the death penalty, their ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2014)This article represents a synthetic overview of the key themes which have animated scholarly research in South Africa's foreign policy over the last two decades. These themes will be addressed and are situated against ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Mass humanitarian atrocities – many of them perpetrated by governments against their own people – continue to wreak havoc across Africa. These crises demand decisive action by the African Union (AU), the intergovernmental ...
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(Springer, 2015-04)During the last two decades, there have been various attempts at measuring and assessing the health of civil society. Some have focused almost exclusively on „counting‟ the nonprofit while others have assessed the strength ...
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(Routledge, 2015)Policy networks can help to coordinate different objectives. The vast literature on network governance often implies that the mere existence of networks will automatically lead to improved coordination. However, much ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The concepts of security and development have always existed, even before the end of the Cold War. However, it was the former United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali who introduced to the world, the notion ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This dissertation addresses two central questions: first, does the post-apartheid bureaucracy have the characteristics of a developmental state? Second, which political interests have shaped the character of the post-apartheid ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)In Zimbabwe, reconciliation has become a contentious process and has been politicised at the international, national and community levels. Criticisms have been raised against the government related to its failure to implement ...
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