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    South Africa's second term at the UN Security Council: Managing expectations

    Institute for Security Studies, 2010
    The re-election of the Republic of South Africa as a non-permanent member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council for 2011 to 2012 follows shortly after its previous tenure from 2007 to 2008, and has attracted attention from a variety of quarters. Much of this attention is the result of selective interpretations in the West of the country’s conduct during its previous tenure.
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    Digging deep for profits and development? Reflections on enhancing the governance of Africa’s mining sector

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Africa’s wealth in mineral resources has seldom been used to the benefit of the inhabitants of the countries concerned. More often it has provided an area of contestation between governments, multinational mining companies, local communities and armed factions.
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    Emerging security architecture in Southeast & East Asia: Beijing’s strategies towards South China Sea

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Tensions have escalated in the maritime zone surrounding the Sea of Japan and South China Sea since 2009. China’s strategic policy on the South China Sea disputes, formulated way back around 1989, is of bilateral negotiations with rival claimant nations and opposes any regional approach.
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    China and its peripheries: strategic significance of Tibet

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Tibet is essentially a strategic and security issue for China, and China’s Tibet policy is essentially driven by strategic considerations and periphery security. This paper evaluates China’s Tibet policy in the larger periphery policy.
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    Indian perspectives: a new security architecture for the Gulf

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    The existing security architecture in the Gulf region was created by the US which essentially offered to safeguard the security and control of the ruling dispensations over their domains and populations and in return the latter ensured that US interests in the region would be looked after.
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    A year after Busan: where is the global partnership going?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in  (HLF4) in Busan, South Korea, in 2012, saw the inclusion of the private sector and the emerging economies under the umbrella of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC).
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    India, China and the Nathu La: realizing the potential of a border trade

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Today, Nathu La has become the only border trade post linking India’s Northeast with Southwest China. However, there is a huge different between the potential of trade and the actual performance.
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    India, China and the Nathu La: understanding Beijing’s larger strategy towards the region

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    Nathu La is a mountain pass in the Himalayas and connects the Indian state of Sikkim with China's Tibet Autonomous Region. As one of the three open trading border posts between China and India, Natula La’s infrastructure are of great importance.
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    Zero option & Afghan stability: Karzai, Obama and the high stakes in Afghanistan

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    According to open source, there are over 60,000 American troops in Afghanistan today; this figure is expected to be reduced gradually during 2014. According to this “residue” approach, the process will continue down to December 2014, but would not result in a complete withdrawal.
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    Contemporary Ladakh: a subtle yet strong patriarchy

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    The general perception is that in Ladakh the status of a woman is equal to that of a man. This paper states that although the status of women is relatively better in Ladakh than in other parts of India, this does not mean patriarchy does not exist in this region.

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