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Region-Building and Peacebuilding in Southern Africa
Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2016The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, South Africa, and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) office in Gaborone, Botswana, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar in Gaborone, 19-20 September 2015, on “Region-Building and Peacebuilding in Southern Africa”.DocumentCentral America: a South African foreign policy adventure
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015South Africa established official relations with various States in Central America from 1993 onwards, thereby establishing its post-Apartheid era outlooks on interactions with the region.DocumentR2P@10: what lessons for South Africa and Africa?
Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 20152015 marks ten years since more than 150 world states endorsed the principle of the Responsibility to protect (R2P) at the 2005 World Summit.DocumentNot beating around the Bush: understanding China and South Africa’s illegal wildlife trade
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015A major threat to the survival of endangered wildlife species is the absence of consensus on the causes of and solutions to their illegal trade, with this expanding trade causing increasing devastation.DocumentSouth Africa’s foreign economic strategies in a changing global system
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015This paper illustrates that the three main pillars of South Africa’s foreign economic strategies are multilateral trade negotiations, the Group of Twenty (G-20) and the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) forum.DocumentSouth Africa’s changing foreign policy in a multi-polar world: the influence of China and other emerging powers
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015In recent years, critics of the South African government have accused it of increasingly abandoning its commitments to human rights and democracy in its international engagements.DocumentSouth African foreign policy and the UN Security Council: assessing its impact on the African peace and security architecture
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015South Africa (SA)’s two terms – 2007–2008 and 2011–2012 – as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) has received limited scholarly attention. This paper examines the globalisation of SA’s foreign policy through its two-term tenure on the UNSC, focusing on its agenda for the promotion of peace in Africa.DocumentThe temptations and promotion of “China Dream”: calling for Africa’s home-grown rhetoric
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015Scholars have raised concerns that political rhetoric manifest in China-Africa relations tend to replicate China’s domestic ideals on the African continent. The exercise is witnessed in the coupling of the “Chinese Dream” and the “African Dream” in the rhetoric of China-Africa relations.DocumentThe chimera of global convergence
Transnational Institute, 2014It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.DocumentShifting power reader: critical perspectives on emerging economies
Transnational Institute, 2014Does the emergence of a multipolar global order open up policy space for alternative economic visions and pose a necessary challenge to a US and Northern-dominated global order? Or might it instead reinvigorate capitalism and exploitation by a new constellation of corporate elites?Pages