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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Political Sciences) by Type "Mini Dissertation"
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and this occasion provides a good opportunity for conducting a review that focuses on how far the SADC region has come in its quest to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021)The African continent has been plagued with armed conflicts, civil wars, and ex-tended periods of regional instability right from the mid-20th century (Swart and Sol-omon, 2004:1). These conflicts are usually between ...
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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, 2019)Since 1994, South Africa's foreign policy has been successful in establishing strategic relations with Asian countries to strengthen and promote its political, social and economic interests, through bilateral relations and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study analyses the Niger-Delta security crisis from the prism of the Nigerian Government's approach to the crisis from 2009-2021. It leverages a qualitative research methodology and the human security framework to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)South Africa adopted a human security orientation at the start of its democratic epoch in 1994. Human security is an approach to security which prioritises the protection of the people over security of the state. One of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)The study aimed to analyse South Africa’s response to COVID-19 and if it constituted a securitization act. To securitize means a securitizing actor elevates an issue beyond politics by treating it as an existential threat ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study applies Zartman's theory of ripeness to the Zimbabwean conflict over the period 2000-2009. According to this theory conflicts can only be resolved when the parties have reached a stalemate and perceived mediation ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The study assesses Adler and Barnett's (1998) three tier framework with a specific focus on the mature phase of their framework that emphasises mutual trust and collective identity as necessary conditions for establishing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)No abstract
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)This study sets out to explore whether South Africa’s membership of the BRICS forum serves the country’s national interests. More particularly this examination is approached from the perspective of the motivations given ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The high degree of interdependence among role players is one of the most important characteristics of the global arena of the twenty first century. The downside of the creation of an integrated and knowledge-driven global ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The study evaluated the implementation of the South African- France Seasons 2012-2013 in the light of the ideas about cultural diplomacy, benefits and problems encountered and made recommendations emanating from the lessons ...
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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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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the current state of literature surrounding childhood and child agency, and how dominant notions of these concepts result in practical implications pertaining to the nature ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study explores the current state of the literature surrounding climate security and the climate-conflict nexus. Currently, literature surrounding climate security and the climate- conflict nexus is preoccupied with ...
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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, 2019)The international geo-political and economic environment is currently experiencing unprecedented change. Challenges facing South Africa’s private sector include increased competition and accessing market space on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Climate change is a global phenomenon that sees the rise in total global temperatures creating long-term change in average weather patterns affecting populations across the globe. Studies have shown that human activity is ...
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