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Research Articles (Political Sciences): Recent submissions
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(Unisa Press, 2024-02)The outbreak of COVID-19 has had negative impacts on many communities across the globe, and, in particular, these impacts have disproportionately affected women. Indeed, preliminary research and reporting on the effects ...
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(Wiley, 2023-09)As part of its strategy to win African votes for election to the UN Security Council (2008–12), Canberra sought to leverage its soft power potential by presenting Australia as having “no colonial baggage” in Africa while ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)This article explores the evolution of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ as a concept and geopolitical social construct. Since 2007, the concept has been framed predominatly to fit the geostrategic concerns of global North powers. ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)v44i2.4416The past decade and a half, ever since former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s ‘Confluence of the Two Oceans’ speech in front of the Indian parliament in August 2007, has seen the rapid evolution of the concept ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)China’s perspective of the Indo-Pacific as a set of strategies initially developed by Japan but mainly driven by the United States (US), appears to be shifting. Beijing originally viewed such approaches as directly ...
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(Adonis and Abbey, 2023-04)Industrialisation is vital for developing countries‘ quest for sustainable growth, development, and transformation. This article examines the SADC region‘s stated objective of industrialisation and regional integration ...
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(Adonis and Abbey, 2022-12)It is crucial to examine the historical conflict mediation role that SADC played in Zimbabwe given the country’s continuous political instability and economic catastrophe. Zimbabwe held its first all-race elections in 1980, ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Southern Africa has a long and complex history of migration. This article argues that overall, the mechanisms for governing migration and the practice of migration in the region ignore prevailing theoretical and ideological ...
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(Routledge, 2022)In 2015 Germany admitted that the warfare in its colony South West Africa was tantamount to genocide. Bilateral negotiations with the Namibian government resulted in May 2021 in a so-called reconciliation agreement. This ...
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(Policy Press, 2022-04-26)BACKGROUND : Post-positivist critics of the linear-rational understanding of the role of knowledge in decision making have long argued the need for the construction of socially robust knowledge to illuminate policy ...
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(Routledge, 2023)This article considers the social and political action of South Africa's black middle classes during the Jacob Zuma administration (2009 and 2018) during which the governing party fragmented in a disorderly way, partly ...
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(Routledge, 2023)The post-apartheid government in South Africa has provided increased opportunities for public participation at the local government level. Local party politics tend to bedevil these local participatory processes. This paper ...
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(Accent Publisher, 2022-04-04)This article explores the challenges which emanate from the discourse of reconciliation in Zimbabwe as it relates to the Gukurahundi atrocities of the post-independence Zimbabwean era. Since most of the efforts to address ...
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(Routledge, 2023)Namibia’s National Assembly and Presidential Elections in November 2019 documented for the first time a decline in the hegemonic status of the former liberation movement, SWAPO. This culminated since then in an unforeseen ...
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(Routledge, 2023)Middle classes in the Global South have become topical. They were considered mainly by economists in development-oriented institutions and praised as a factor contributing to economic development and democratic forces. We ...
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(Routledge, 2023)Citizenship is a universal legal concept and norm. But its meaning and impact differ. Its codification and implementation are shaped by historical trajec- tories, political systems and state/government relations with ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Affirmative action has been implemented through the African Union’s (AU) gender agenda to attain women’s political empowerment and to achieve gender justice goals both within the AU and by member states. Accordingly, quotas ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2022)This article argues that during the 2022 Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to create the framework conditions to facilitate the mediation of the crisis due to the ...
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(Routledge, 2022)Traditional rulers have long provided security and stability in Nigeria. However, although they play an important governance role, they are not adequately acknowledged within governance literature and discourse. Primarily, ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-11)The Covid-19 pandemic border closure policy and other anti-migrant policies in 2020 have become another basis for flaunting the ECOWAS free movement protocols by member states now referred to as pandemic nationalism. ...
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