Browsing Research Articles (Political Sciences) by Subject "Namibia"

Browsing Research Articles (Political Sciences) by Subject "Namibia"

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  • Melber, Henning; Kromrey, Daniela; Welz, Martin (Oxford University Press, 2017)
    This article presents an anatomy of power relations and policy making within the ranks of the former liberation movement SWAPO in Namibia. It summarizes the features of Namibia‟s dominant party state and argues that ...
  • Melber, Henning (German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2019)
    Since independence in March 1990, the unequal distribution and ownership of land as a leftover of colonial-era dispossession and appropriation has been a major issue of sociopolitical contestation in Namibia. This article ...
  • Melber, Henning (Brill | Rodopi, 2020-02)
    The South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO of Namibia) had a unique status among anti-colonial movements. Fighting South Africa’s illegal occupation of South West Africa/Namibia, dubbed by the United Nations as a ...
  • 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 ...
  • Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2020)
    These Reflections present an overview and take stock of the German-Namibian bilateral negotiations how to come to terms with the genocide committed by the German empire in the colony South West Africa between 1904 and 1908. ...
  • Melber, Henning (University of Free State, 2020-12)
    The so-called Old Location was established during the early years of the 20th century for most of the African population groups living in Windhoek, the capital of then South West Africa. It confined them to a space ...
  • Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2020)
    For the first time, the former liberation movement SWAPO as government and its presidential candidate have recorded a loss in voter support. The National Assembly and Presidential election results of 27 November 2019 were ...
  • 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 ...
  • Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2019)
    This article engages with the limits to liberation in Southern African societies under former liberation movements. It argues that the policies executed in the new societies are still infected by substantial elements of ...
  • 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 ...
  • Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2015-01)
    Namibia is praised as one of the most laudable democratic societies in Sub-Saharan Africa. But it also displays strong tendencies of autocratic political rule and intolerance with regard to views dissenting from the ...
  • Kößler, Reinhart; Melber, Henning (Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2015-07)
    Mit der öffentlichen und rückhaltlosen Anerkennung und Benennung des Völkermordes an den Armeniern vor 100 Jahren hat der Papst eine internationale öffentliche Debatte angestoßen. Das sollte Veranlassung sein, endlich ...