Browsing Research Articles (Political Sciences) by Issue Date

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  • Comparing approaches to reconciliation in South Africa and Rwanda 
    Wielenga, Cori (African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2011)
    Between 1948 and 1994, South Africa lived under the shadow of apartheid, a system that infiltrated every aspect of society with its divisions, inequality and injustices. In April 1994, after years of negotiations, the ...
  • Civil war settlements and the prospects for peace 
    Nathan, Laurie; Toft, Monica Duffy (MIT Press, 2011)
    In “Ending Civil Wars: A Case for Rebel Victory?” Monica Duffy Toft questions whether policymakers are correct to have a strong preference for terminating civil wars through negotiated settlements. Her main endeavor is ...
  • Interests, ideas and ideology : South Africa's policy on Darfur 
    Nathan, Laurie (Oxford University Press, 2011-01)
    Under former President Mbeki, South Africa provoked international dismay and criticism when it tried to block United Nations censure of Burma, Sudan, and Zimbabwe for gross human rights abuses. In the case of Sudan, Pretoria ...
  • Public and elite views on Europe vs. China in Africa 
    Fioramonti, Lorenzo; Kimunguyi, Patrick (Routledge, 2011-03)
    Europe has been the privileged economic and political partner of Africa, but more recently China has increased its foothold in Africa through important financial investments and trade agreements. Against this backdrop, ...
  • A conceptual safari: Africa and R2P 
    Spies, Yolanda Kemp; Dzimiri, Patrick (Berghahn Books, 2011-04-01)
    The Responsibility to Protect is a new human security paradigm that re-conceptualizes state sovereignty as a responsibility rather than a right. Its seminal endorsement by the 2005 World Summit has however not consolidated ...
  • The conceptual structuring of the intelligence and counterintelligence processes : enduring holy grails or crumling axioms - quo vadis 
    Duvenage, P.C. (Beer); Hough, Mike (Michael) (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)
    This article, as undoubtedly many others, on the eve of the tenth commemoration of 9/11, deals with the ramifications of these, and related events, on international and national security thinking. In the wake of 9/11, the ...
  • Militias : a conceptual framework 
    Alden, Chris (Christopher); Thakur, Monika; Arnold, Matthew B. (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)
    While the presence of militia in conflicts dates back several centuries, their current nature and importance remains unique and in need of further analysis and understanding. This article attempts to further this understanding ...
  • Behind the veil : India's relations with apartheid South Africa 
    Solomon, Hussein; Theron, Sonja (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)
    History remembers India as a vocal and consistent supporter of the anti-apartheid movement. The existing literature on relations between India and apartheid South Africa describes an antagonistic relationship defined by ...
  • Liberation movements as goverments in Southern Africa - on the limits to emancipation 
    Melber, Henning (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-05)
    As liberation movements rise up and overthrow existing powers of imperialism and oppression, a sense of promise and hope is felt that is all too often lost in the years to follow. The role that these liberation movements ...
  • The Health Systems Funding Platform : is this where we thought we were going? 
    Hill, Peter S .; Vermeiren, Peter; Miti, Katabaro; Oomsiti, Gorik; Van Damme, Wim (BioMed Central, 2011-05-19)
    BACKGROUND: In March 2009, the Task Force for Innovative International Financing for Health Systems recommended “a health systems funding platform for the Global Fund, GAVI Alliance, the World Bank and others to coordinate, ...
  • Grenzen einer Weltwirtschaftsregierung : neue Akteure in neuen Governance-Strukturen? 
    Melber, Henning (WeltTrends, 2011-07)
    No abstract available.
  • Covering presidential election campaigns : does reporter gender affect the worklives of correspondents and their reportage? 
    Grabe, Maria Elizabeth; Samson, Lelia; Zelenkauskaite, Asta; Yegiyan, Narine S. (Routledge, 2011-09)
    This content analysis reveals that men and women network news correspondents differed in how they covered 4 presidential elections (1992 - 2004). There were fewer women than men reporters involved in election coverage ...
  • Scientists as lobbyists? How science can make its voice heard in the South African policy-making arena 
    Funke, Nikki; Nienaber, Shanna; Henwood, Roland (John Wiley & Sons, 2011-11)
    This paper examines the complexity of the South African policy-making context and its official and non-official actors and investigates the challenges that scientists face when trying to exert their influence here in ...
  • Questioning Africa's economic resilience 
    Hartwell, Leon (Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2011-11)
    In the midst of the Great Recession, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank boldly proclaimed that African economies have displayed 'resilience'. It was an attempt to boast that their policy prescriptions have ...
  • Responsibility to protect 
    Mutton, Jan F. (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2011-12)
    It is only recently that individual human beings as well as peoples in general have gained a place in international law and in international politics, traditionally the domain of states and international organisations. Civil ...
  • Solidarity triumphs over democracy - the dissolution of the SADC Tribunal 
    Nathan, Laurie (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2011-12)
    In 2011, the heads of state of the countries comprising the Southern African Development Community (SADC) decided to dissolve the SADC Tribunal, a regional court modelled on the European Court of Justice. Four years ...
  • Knowledge acquisition gaps : a comparison of print versus online news sources 
    Yang, JungAe; Grabe, Maria Elizabeth (Sage, 2011-12)
    This experimental study tested the knowledge gap hypothesis at the intersection of audience education levels and news formats (newspaper versus online). The findings reveal a gap in public affairs knowledge acquisition ...
  • Genesis of the ANC's armed struggle in South Africa 1948-1961 
    Ellis, Stephen (Routledge, 2011-12)
    Revelations made by veterans of the period, and the opening of various archives, have thrown significant new light on the origins of Umkhonto we Sizwe. It is now clear that the South African Communist Party (SACP) was the ...
  • Longing for home : pre-genocide and post-genocide refugees in Rwanda 
    Wielenga, Cori (ACCORD, 2012)
    Rwanda has a history of violent conflict resulting in mass exoduses of people to neighbouring countries, both prior to the 1994 genocide and after it. This article will consider the experiences of Rwandan refugees in terms ...
  • Conclusion - building regions from below : has the time come for regionalism 2.0? 
    Fioramonti, Lorenzo (Routledge, 2012)
    In a changing world ridden with crises and characterised by a general redistribution of power, regional organisations need to reinvent themselves. Equally, the study of regionalism has to reject its traditional ...