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(Routledge, 2012-03)Once upon a time there was a Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), who was elected into office during the Cold War era because the big powers believed he was just a humble servant to their interests. They were ...
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Beyond settler colonialism is not yet emancipation : on the limits to liberation in Southern Africa (Rivers Oram Press, 2011)Since coming to political power, the anti-colonial liberation movements in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa (all former settler colonies) have remained in control over their societies. During ...
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(The Verloren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies, UNISA, 2010)For most South Africans, regardless of their interest in foreign policy, the advent of 2010 signalled a major and distinctly foreign engagement: South Africa’s hosting of the FIFA1 World Cup. This much anticipated event, ...
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(Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2011-12)It is only recently that individual human beings as well as peoples in general have gained a place in international law and in international politics, traditionally the domain of states and international organisations. Civil ...
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(Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2011-12)In 2011, the heads of state of the countries comprising the Southern African Development Community (SADC) decided to dissolve the SADC Tribunal, a regional court modelled on the European Court of Justice. Four years ...
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(Routledge, 2010)The emerging global order is challenging multilateralism in the sense that power is becoming situational: centres of gravity are overlapping and transient, and the transnational interdependence that characterises this ...
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(Routledge, 2011-03)Europe has been the privileged economic and political partner of Africa, but more recently China has increased its foothold in Africa through important financial investments and trade agreements. Against this backdrop, ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-11)In the midst of the Great Recession, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank boldly proclaimed that African economies have displayed 'resilience'. It was an attempt to boast that their policy prescriptions have ...
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(Routledge, 2011)The ambitions of the global South for a larger share of global wealth and political power are at least partly being played out on the African continent. A snapshot of the scope and nature of the involvement of the BRICs ...
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(Sage, 2010)The experimental study reported here employed one of the most compelling visual cues of female sexual attractiveness (low waist-to-hip ratio) to test the influence of news anchor sexualization on audience evaluations of ...
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(ACCORD, 2011)What can be done when governments and leaders in states do not abide to internationally codified norms and values? The Westphalian order allows regimes to claim their domestic sovereignty over and above minimum standards of ...
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(Sage, 2011-12)This experimental study tested the knowledge gap hypothesis at the intersection of audience education levels and news formats (newspaper versus online). The findings reveal a gap in public affairs knowledge acquisition ...
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(Routledge, 2011-09)This content analysis reveals that men and women network news correspondents differed in how they covered 4 presidential elections (1992 - 2004). There were fewer women than men reporters involved in election coverage ...
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(MIT Press, 2011)In “Ending Civil Wars: A Case for Rebel Victory?” Monica Duffy Toft questions whether policymakers are correct to have a strong preference for terminating civil wars through negotiated settlements. Her main endeavor is ...
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(BioMed Central, 2011-05-19)BACKGROUND: In March 2009, the Task Force for Innovative International Financing for Health Systems recommended “a health systems funding platform for the Global Fund, GAVI Alliance, the World Bank and others to coordinate, ...
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(African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011)Between 1948 and 1994, South Africa lived under the shadow of apartheid, a system that infiltrated every aspect of society with its divisions, inequality and injustices. In April 1994, after years of negotiations, the ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, 2011-11)This paper examines the complexity of the South African policy-making context and its official and non-official actors and investigates the challenges that scientists face when trying to exert their influence here in ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)While the presence of militia in conflicts dates back several centuries, their current nature and importance remains unique and in need of further analysis and understanding. This article attempts to further this understanding ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)This article, as undoubtedly many others, on the eve of the tenth commemoration of 9/11, deals with the ramifications of these, and related events, on international and national security thinking. In the wake of 9/11, the ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)As liberation movements rise up and overthrow existing powers of imperialism and oppression, a sense of promise and hope is felt that is all too often lost in the years to follow. The role that these liberation movements ...
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