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Theses and Dissertations (Political Sciences): Recent submissions
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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, 2024-07)This study explores how climate change and food insecurity account for an exacerbation in conflict involving pastoralists in Ethiopia from 2015 to 2022. Because of Ethiopia’s geographical setting, terrain and over-reliance ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-05-31)If the stability of the Southern African region is to be maintained, the ability to combat and prevent terrorism should be of utmost importance to South Africa. The lack of significant terrorist attacks in the region is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-25)The research in this dissertation consists of a critical literature study and evaluation of William Gumede’s (2017) elements of democratic deficit as a feature of liberation movements. Examining the political culture of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-04-02)The Indo-Pacific region holds significant and strategic geopolitical importance in the 21st century. It is in the region that the US-China strategic contest is prevalent, driven by economic, security, and geopolitical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-06-23)Maritime securitisation is increasingly receiving scholarly attention, particularly regarding its role in protecting national interests and it is therefore being linked to geopolitical and developmental discussions. However, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-05-20)Zimbabwe-China relations have elicited attention from the media, academics, and scholarly literature. Since the introduction of Zimbabwe’s unwritten Look East Policy in 2003 and its implementation until the ousting of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-05-23)The rise of nationwide protests across many countries in the world has the potential to make or mar such countries. While research has greatly focused on the character, impact, common and unique factors that instigate such ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-10)China, as a rising power in the global system, has been increasing its naval presence in the Indian Ocean and the establishment of the country’s first-ever naval base in Djibouti further raised concerns from the dominant ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-06)The COVID-19 pandemic occurred at a time that multilateral cooperation was confronted with legitimacy, accountability, and representation deficits. It was in this environment that South Africa and India presented a proposal ...
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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, 2023)This study explores the question of if and how the protection and promotion of the national interests of two states in a regional security subcomplex affects the stability of the subcomplex itself. The specific case this ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-09)Examining national identity, belonging and a national culture, this study argues for the theorisation of the political reality in South Africa by analysing the literary landscape of the country. By combining a set of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-09)This qualitative study questions what patterns of multilateral vaccine diplomacy were practised by states to adapt to the challenge of Covid-19 from August 2020 to July 2022. The vaccine diplomacy practises of China, Russia, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)Over the past two decades, stabilization has emerged as a dominant mode of international engagement in conflict-affected areas and fragile settings. The universal quest for a sustainable compact of peace in the aftermath ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-01-22)This is a study in public policy focusing on food safety governance. Food safety refers to reducing the risk of individuals becoming sick from foodborne illness through managed handling, preparation, and storage of foods. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)Despite the rising interest in party politics in Africa, minor party activism remains largely understudied, particularly in the context of plurality-based two-party systems. This study therefore examined minor parties in ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)African maritime security in practice, and academically, is gaining significant attention as an area of study. What is overwhelmingly clear is the growing importance of maritime security and its centrality in discourses ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The study examines access to basic education for children, with a special focus on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa. Access to basic education, if practised effectively, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)The importance for a country to have a national identity that is inclusive and a representation of all citizens is pivotal. National identity in post-apartheid South Africa has risen to the top of the national agenda. ...
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