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Searching with a thematic focus on Rising powers in international development, Governance in South Africa

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    The emerging economies and climate change: a case study of the BASIC grouping

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism.
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    South Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.
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    China and India, “rising powers” and African development : challenges and opportunities

    Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014
    In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope.
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    African emerging powers

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014
    Once considered almost solely a site of poverty and conflict, sub-Saharan Africa and perceptions of it have gradually been changing. Today, African states have become important actors in international affairs, with a number considered as emerging powers.
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    The Brics and global capitalism

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    Does 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?
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    Emerging powers in a changing world

    Institute of International Relations, Greece, 2014
    The scope of this paper goes beyond Greece’s neighbourhood and examine different countries that are collectively called as ‘Rising Powers’. Selectively, the authors pick and examine the topics considered as the most important  from each of the following six countries: China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.
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    A ‘Third Umpire’ for policing in South Africa: applying body cameras in the Western Cape

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    Technological innovations are having a profound effect on the form and content of policing. But what are the possibilities for the use of these new technologies for improving law enforcement in the global South? A new initiative led by the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute is testing this question.
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    Delivering effective social assistance: does politics matter?

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    Social assistance programmes are tax-financed programmes directed by public agencies with the objective of reducing, preventing, and eventually eradicating poverty. This paper examines the significance of politics in the rise of social assistance programmes in developing countries in the last decade.
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    South and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean-South Atlantic nexus: strategic and blue economy dimensions

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015
    This policy brief summarises and updates the outcome of the very first symposium devoted to exploring Indian Ocean-South Atlantic sea lanes of convergence around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
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    South African Futures 2035: Can Bafana Bafana still score?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    It is evident that, as much as the country has made progress, South Africa has made an incomplete transition to inclusive politics and an incomplete transition towards inclusive economics.

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