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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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    The United Nations Post-2015 Agenda for Global Development: perspectives from China and Europe

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2014
    This publication focuses on scholarly discourses and policy challenges in China and Germany. Articles from The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), also cover European perspectives while chapters from the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) extend to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).
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    Anticipating the South African tenure in the Chair of the G77: the context and contours

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    South Africa has a precious opportunity to use the chairpersonship of the G77 to help transform the agency of the global south from making lofty undertakings to taking concrete measures to implement what has been agreed. It has the opportunity to strengthen the G77 secretariat by attracting more financial resources and ensuring sound and efficient management systems are in place.
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    Multilateral development cooperation: what does it mean for South Africa’s foreign policy?

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2013
    As South Africa looks to consolidate its approach towards international development cooperation, decision makers will be faced with new challenges in reconciling policy implementation with identified principles. In March 2013, the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) hosted a working roundtable focusing on multilateral development cooperation and South Africa’s foreign policy.
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    South Africa: between regional integration and trade multilateralism

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Global trade is conducted through engagements bilaterally, regionally and inter - regionally and multilaterally. The most widely inclusive process is multilateralism, defined by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) as a system „to help trade flow as freely as possible‟ and set out as its objective.
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    A foreign policy handbook: an overview of South African foreign policy in context

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    The Parliament of South Africa has a proud tradition of engagement in South Africa’s foreign policy. The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation (the Committee) has been engaged in debate on numerous issues, from human rights to economic diplomacy, in shaping South Africa’s approach towards international relations.
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    South Africa and SADC: options for constructive regional leadership

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2014
    Notwithstanding its economic and political dominance in southern Africa, South Africa is bound to the region in a relationship of interdependence. Pretoria’s leadership in efforts to create a regional community where human development and security are within the reach of all citizens is therefore indispensible.
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    Towards a sustainable development diplomacy: a case study of freedom, politics, policy and communication in South Africa

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015
    Diplomatic relationships between South African public and private actors and BRICS partners China and India, by definition development diplomacy, are amongst South Africa’s most important and productive, and arguably, sustainable, relationships in the sense that they are based upon respect for difference (of cultures, political and economic systems, etc.) and that their many aspects are g
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    Power and influence in Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    Africa has been peripheral in approaches to international relations that have tended to focus on so-called ‘great powers’ or the ‘states that make the most difference.
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    National Development Banks in the BRICS: Lessons for the Post-2015 Development Finance Framework

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    In 2015, the framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be agreed. As described in the outcome document of the United Nations (UN) Rio+20 conference, The Future We Want, the mobilisation and effective use of stable, sufficient and suitable development finance must be a crucial part of this framework.

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