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Research Articles (Political Sciences): Recent submissions
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(Routledge, 2023)Citizenship is a universal legal concept and norm. But its meaning and impact differ. Its codification and implementation are shaped by historical trajec- tories, political systems and state/government relations with ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Affirmative action has been implemented through the African Union’s (AU) gender agenda to attain women’s political empowerment and to achieve gender justice goals both within the AU and by member states. Accordingly, quotas ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)This article argues that during the 2022 Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to create the framework conditions to facilitate the mediation of the crisis due to the ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Traditional rulers have long provided security and stability in Nigeria. However, although they play an important governance role, they are not adequately acknowledged within governance literature and discourse. Primarily, ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-11)The Covid-19 pandemic border closure policy and other anti-migrant policies in 2020 have become another basis for flaunting the ECOWAS free movement protocols by member states now referred to as pandemic nationalism. ...
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(Routledge, 2022)The #FMF protests at the University of Pretoria (UP) and universities across South Africa reflected a confrontation with power and an exhibition of distrust in democratic institutions. #Fallists consciously chose to challenge ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2021-11)This paper focuses on the nature and signifi cance of belonging and its intersection with Identity and being in the world. Its primary impetus is to address the question of belonging as it arises in postcolonial ...
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(Routledge, 2021)This article offers reflections on the meaning of peace and peace-building in Africa and proposes a reframing of the state-building problematic. It argues for a shift in analytical lens by providing alternative ways of ...
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(Routledge, 2021)This paper does not directly engage the state-formation, political settlement and state-building debates in Africa but it foregrounds the notion of conversation as the lens through which to examine Rwanda’s state-building ...
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(Routledge, 2021)This paper introduces the Special Issue that grew out of a research project at the African Leadership Centre, which was supported by the Canadian International Centre for Development Research (IDRC). Like the underpinning ...
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(Berghahn Journals, 2021-03)What role can non-diplomats play in managing and altering power relations in transboundary river basins? We answer this by investigating the lobbying eff orts of indigenous peoples to stop the construction of the planned ...
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(Springer, 2021-06)The future development of Africa hinges on the development of its human capital. Higher education is one of the critical resources that will help unlock Africa's potential. China has been a significant partner in the ...
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(Higher Education South Africa (HESA), 2021-03)Analysing the contestation that was inaugurated by the #RhodesMustFall movement, I think through the ways in which it – this contestation – signalled an attempt at reclaiming Black ontology in the Historically White ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2021-05)The following article draws on fieldwork with traditional African healers in an urban South African township and examines mediation sessions undertaken by a group of healers with a view to contemporary conflicts that emerged ...
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(Cogitatio Press, 2021)This article argues that neither borders nor the ways in which migrants see them constitute significant deterrents to the migrants’ resolve to migrate. The argument is based on an investigation of migrants en route to ...
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(Research Society of Pakistan, 2021-04)The relations between India and Pakistan are currently stalemated owing to ongoing tensions. These tensions are rooted in long-term rivalry between the two nations. Soft power is one area where there are unifying elements ...
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(Routledge, 2022)When the United Nations General Assembly in an emergency session on 2 March took a vote on the war against Ukraine, Namibia abstained with 15 other African states. One (Eritrea) voted against and nine as ‘no shows’ did not ...
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(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2021-04-28)The world needs a systemic transformation from a social, economic and environmental point of view in order to deal with present and future challenges, which are crosscutting in nature. Education and research can become ...
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(Springer, 2024-02)What does it take to belong to a region and exert power over it? The scholarship on regional powers has elaborated sophisticated indicators to establish nuances of power, but the depiction of the region has remained vague. ...
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(Wiley, 2022-06)MOTIVATION : The literature on small states suggests that small island states are more likely than larger states to support regional and international democratic norms, but is this true of the six African Small Island ...
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