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Browsing Political Sciences by Supervisor "Schoeman, Maxi"
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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, 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, 2008-07-10)The economic dimension of conflicts has enjoyed increasing attention in research dealing with the dynamics of contemporary conflict. The nexus between natural resources, economics and conflict has played a defining role ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-01-25)This dissertation is an investigation into the type of language or discourse that is used in the policy process with the aim of giving a description of the characteristics of the language or discourse of public policy for ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)The Somali conflict combines some of the risk factors commonly associated with state failure, state collapse and state disintegration phenomenon. This study commences with an exploration of the failure of the peace process ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-09-23)This study of the Somali conflict resolution process is based on the available body of knowledge about the nature of the conflict and diplomatic initiatives aimed at finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict. It provides ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-11-04)This dissertation focuses on an analysis of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) as a standard for ‘good governance’. The APRM is a democratic initiative on behalf of African leaders to strengthen governance and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The rapid growth and development of the internet and information communications technology (ICT) has delivered economic growth at an unprecedented scale and enabled seamless connectivity across all corners of the world. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)Ethiopia officially declared to follow a democratic developmental state since 2002. Some scholars argue that there is an attempt to emulate the developmental state in Ethiopia, citing a few features of the developmental ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)There are many ways in which to define the relationship between the European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. Using Holsti‟s definitions of role theory, this study distinguishes between ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The pursuit of international peace and security continues to lead international actors to pacify conflicts that could potentially evolve into or have already employed violence. In line with this pursuit, international ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-06)This study entails an examination of the extent of participation by non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) in the legislative process of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature (KZN legislature). It aims to explore how far these ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-01-16)It is generally accepted that the youth are overall apathetic towards political activities and that such apathy is evidenced in low voter turnout during elections. Such conventional wisdom seems to be based mainly on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The concepts of security and development have always existed, even before the end of the Cold War. However, it was the former United Nations Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali who introduced to the world, the notion ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This qualitative and exploratory study seeks to investigate how China’s contemporary public diplomacy promotes its foreign policy interests in Africa, particularly in a post-2008 era. In order to answer this overarching ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-04)It is both a Constitutional imperative and the South African government's policy that the historical imbalances of the past be redressed. As a result thereof, the SANDF as a state entity is expected to comply with these ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Once mediation has started, the issue of leverage (sticks and carrots) as a specific tool of mediation often comes into play. There appears to be two divergent views on the use of leverage in the mediation process. One ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2011)This study focuses on the debtor-creditor relationship between African states and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs). More specifically, it makes use of ‘post-positivist’ approaches as analytical tools and it ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This study sets out to generate a new approach to analysing the level of political will that drives South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade (IWT) policies. It uses complexity thinking to conceptualise the country’s policy ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-27)The central question addressed by this thesis is whether and to what extent ASEAN and SADC provide a regional response to security challenges from within and without the region respectively. In the examination of a regional ...
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