• Profit vs public health : the crisis of liberal democracy and universal healthcare in Africa 

  Isike, Christopher (Forum Press, 2021)

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• Toward health-environment policy : beyond the Rome Declaration 

  Laurent, Eloi; Galli, Alessandro; Battaglia, Fabio; Marchiori, Giorgia Dalla Libera; Fioramonti, Lorenzo (Elsevier, 2022-01)

  We offer here a brief commentary of the Rome Declaration (May 21, 2021) in light of a recent Report on the Health-Environment Nexus released by the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEALL). Although the Rome Declaration promotes ...
• The asymmetry, disparity, inconsistency, and double standards of global coloniality : the case of Libya in 2011 

  Nyere, Chidochashe; Zondi, Siphamandla (Routledge, 2021)

  The article analyses the Arab Spring protests that started in Tunisia in 2010 and spread into more than thirteen other countries across two continents. Of the more than thirteen countries affected by the Arab Spring, only ...
• Conduit for economic growth and development? Exploring South Africa and Brazil’s BRICS membership 

  Diko, Nqophisa; Sempijja, Norman (Routledge, 2021)

  For decades, the most used mainstream model for economic growth and development was that used and promoted by the global north. However, this model has not seen the same results in the developing global south as it has in ...
• Imagining a community : the African Union as an emerging security community 

  Schoeman, Maxi (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2002)

  This article presents an evaluation of the African Union which is to be formally established in July 2002. The concept of a security community as originally developed by Karl Deutsch and his associates during the 1950s is ...
• National security and threat perception : when is an issue a national security threat? 

  Hough, Mike (Michael) (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2003)

  In this article the concepts of national security and human security are discussed with specific reference to the African and South African situation. It is concluded that there is still no clear indication of when an ...
• Regional integration in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) : effects on regional conflict transformation 

  Minou, Stephanie Ngansop (University of Pretoria, 2014-08)

  This study explores the link between regional cooperation and integration and the root causes of conflict in Africa. Specifically, it focuses on the experience of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ...
• COVID-19 and the decline of the social state in Nigeria’s federal democracy 

  Isike, Christopher; Ihembe, Martin (Brill Academic Publishers, 2021-12)

  The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic cuts across all spheres of human life, and it has exposed fundamental weaknesses in political values, governance systems, public health and social life in different parts of the world. ...
• Fostering communities of practice for improved food democracy : experiences and learning from South Africa 

  Adelle, Camilla; Kroll, Florian; Losch, Bruno; Gorgens, Tristan (Wiley, 2021)

  The highly concentrated formal agri-food sector holds enormous power in the governance of the food system in South Africa. Yet the concept of food democracy holds that all people should have an equal opportunity to participate ...
• Co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary communities of practice : experiences from food governance in South Africa 

  Adelle, Camilla; Gorgens, Tristan; Kroll, Florian; Losch, Bruno (Oxford University Press, 2021-04)

  Communities of Practice are sites of social learning for the co-production of knowledge. Building on recent literature on Transdisciplinary Communities of Practice, this article reflects on the experiences of an emergent ...
• “One Namibia, one nation”? Social cohesion under a liberation movement as government in decline 

  Melber, Henning (Institut für Afrikawissenschaften, 2021)

  Namibia has been widely perceived as a successful case of negotiated independence, governed since 1990 by the former liberation movement. For a quarter of a century the movement turned party expanded its political ...
• Zimbabwe’s continued isolation 

  Melber, Henning; Southall, Roger (Routledge, 2021)

  In late November 2017 Emmerson Mnangagwa replaced Robert Mugabe as President of Zimbabwe in a ‘military assisted transition’. He declared Zimbabwe ‘open for business’ as the cornerstone of his foreign policy. Hopes were ...
• Unequal access to redress for women ex-combatants in Zimbabwe : an intersectional analysis 

  Ndhlovu, Nontando; Wielenga, Cori (Routledge, 2022)

  Women played a range of complex roles during the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe between 1961 and 1980. However, although the Zimbabwean post-independence government made attempts to promote gender equity following the ...
• Interrogating the nexus between irregular migration and insecurity along ‘ungoverned’ border spaces in West Africa 

  Aniche, Ernest Toochi; Moyo, Inocent; Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe (Routledge, 2021)

  The ‘coloniality’, porosity, and ‘ungovernability’ of borders in West Africa, have engendered undocumented migration, in which most people engage to visit their kin and for economic reasons such as herding, farming, fishing, ...
• Wellbeing economy : an effective paradigm to mainstream post-growth policies? 

  Fioramonti, Lorenzo; Coscieme, Luca; Costanza, Robert; Kubiszewski, Ida; Trebeck, Katherine; Wallis, Stewart; Roberts, Debra; Mortensen, Lars F.; Pickett, Kate E.; Wilkinson, Richard; Ragnarsdottir, Kristin Vala; McGlade, Jacqueline; Lovins, Hunter; De Vogli, Roberto (Elsevier, 2022-02)

  The concept of ‘wellbeing economy’ (WE), that is, an economy that pursues human and ecological wellbeing instead of material growth, is gaining support amongst policymakers, business, and civil society. Over the past couple ...
• Power and influence in post-secession South Sudan : a leadership perspective on nation-building 

  Theron, Sonja (Routledge, 2020)

  Following South Sudan's secession in 2011, the country faced significant political, social and economic challenges. The country emerged from a long andarduous nation-building journey, including almost 50 years of violent ...
• Three faces of the European Union water initiative : promoting the water framework directive or sustainable development? 

  Fritsch, Oliver; Benson, David; Adelle, Camilla (Water Alternatives Network, 2020-10)

  The Water Framework Directive (WFD) not only recast water management practices within the European Union (EU); it also opened a new chapter for the EU’s external ambitions in the field of water. The central vehicle here ...
• Agonising choices : tragedy and international relations - a tragic vision of humanitarian intervention in the Bosnian War 

  Van Offelen, Catherine; Smith, M.L.R. (Michael) (Cambridge University Press, 2020-10)

  Tragedy is one of the oldest metaphorical lenses of International Relations. The tragic vision of politics, from Thucydides to contemporary realist theorists, lies at the core of classical realism. However, it is striking ...
• Geingob 2.0. Namibia’s new government 

  Melber, Henning (Otjivanda Presse, 2020-06)

  The National Assembly and Presidential election results of 27 November 2019 suggest a turning point in Namibia’s democracy. For the first time since the UN-supervised elections prior to Independence in 1990, the dominant ...
• Namibia’s regional and local authority elections 2020 : democracy beyond SWAPO 

  Melber, Henning (Otjivanda Presse, 2021-06)

  The Regional and Local Authority Elections on 25 November 2020 have changed Namibia’s political landscape. Voters exercised their right to make political choices. The trend, first seen in the National Assembly and Presidential ...

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