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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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    Land grabbing under the Cover of Law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    There is a general consensus among academics, politicians and social movements, that BRICS as ‘new donors’ are increasing both their quantitative and qualitative role in defining what is considered to be ‘the world economic order’.
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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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    China in Africa: impacts and prospects for accountable development

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2012
    China is the major “new” player in Africa and impacts on development and politics in numerous ways. This paper shows that China impacts on African development in multiple ways that go well beyond aid.
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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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    Recalibrating South Africa’s role in global economic governance: a Nigerian perspective on some strategic challenges

    Global Economic Governance Africa, 2015
    A Nigerian perspective on South Africa’s position in global economic governance, particularly in relation to its role in the BRICS grouping and the G-20, provides critical insights into the potential benefits of a reinvigorated Nigerian–South African partnership.

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