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    Brazil as a regional and emerging global power

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Since the year 2000, Brazilian foreign policy has expanded dramatically on the back of the country’s growing material wealth. Changes in the international system helped too.
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    Connecting South Asia- experimenting with the Greater Mekong Sub-Regional model

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    There is a renewed emphasis to improve the physical connectivity with the Southeast Asian countries. In the past, there have been such initiatives by the Union government of India. What has been said and projected, how far it has been implemented it to ground reality remains a matter of contention. Where is the problem in connecting with the Southeast Asian countries?
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    Africa needs its own ‘G-Club’ to meet the challenges at home and globally

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    The ineffectiveness and resistance to reform of formal multilateral institutions is encouraging a boom in informal ‘clubs of state’. These clubs — usually identified by the letter ‘G’ and a number — have become increasingly significant in recent years and are fulfilling functions that their formal counterparts can seldom achieve.
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    Brazil as an regional power in Latin America or South America?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    At the end of the first decade of the 21stcentury Brazil considers itself, and is internationally considered, an emerging regional and global power — or at least an emerging regional power with global aspirations. But in which region? In Latin America, including Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, where for more than a century the United States has been the hegemonic power?
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    Chinese development co-operation in Africa: the case of Tembisa's Friendship Town

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Chinese development co-operation in Africa has invoked both admiration and criticism, much of it based on limited empirical or anecdotal evidence, contributing to conflicting perceptions as to its purpose, means and outcomes.
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    Socio-economic problems facing Africa: insights from six APRM country review reports

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    Analysis of the first six African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM )Country Review Reports reveals common problems in the sphere of socio-economic development, albeit to different degrees. What can we learn, and do the solutions proposed hold promise?
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    China and Africa's natural resources: the challenges and implications for development and governance

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    China’s energy concerns have been playing an increasingly crucial role in its foreign policymaking in the new century.  This paper proposes to analyse China’s growing engagement in Africa’s mineral sector and assess its impact on local governance.
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    Optimising policy space in the context of increasing international support for CAADP

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is a pan-African vehicle that translates the vision of the NEPAD Planning and Co-ordinating Agency (NPCA) into an operational framework to guide agriculture-led development. CAADP’s overall goal is to improve livelihoods, food security and environmental resilience in Africa’s largely agrarian economies.
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    BRIC and IBSA forums: neo-liberals in disguise or champions of the south?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    South–South co-operation has existed for many decades and has played a key role in solidifying unity among developing countries. However, the concept has evolved from being concerned with geopolitics and opposing imperialism, global racism and colonialism, to an emphasis on geo-economics and political economy. 
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    The oil factor in Sino–Angolan relations at the start of the 21st Century

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2010
    Even though trade figures are the most impressive feature of Sino–Angolan bilateral relations after 2002, the main reason why China’s engagement in Angola has been attracting so much attention from scholars, the media and politicians is the fact that its presence in Angola is most evident in the sectors that have been driving Angola’s rapid economic growth in recent years, whi

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