This article explores China’s international role with reference to Africa in order to answer the question whether China can, in fact, be considered an emerging hegemon that is using, as Western states have done in the past, ...

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 ...

South Africa proudly wears the label ‘emerging power’, with its membership of the BRICS and G20 probably the most visible signs of this conferred status. This paper explores the concept of the emerging powers within the ...

South Africa’s position on the African continent is widely seen to be one of dominance and leadership. No longer subject to the international opprobrium, postapartheid South Africa launched a visionary campaign built ...