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    The green economy in the G-20, post-Mexico: implications for China

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    In 2012, the G-20 Leaders’ Summit in Mexico formally listed the green economy on the G-20 agenda. This signalled the fastest global emergence and expansion of the concept of the green economy in recent years.
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    The new geopolitics of peace operations: mapping the emerging landscape

    Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2012
    As the world’s geopolitical landscape is reshaped by changes in the relationships between leading global and regional powers, important questions are being raised about the durability of the recent downward trend in armed conflict, as well as the international consensus on forms of peace operations and what will be politically feasible in terms of interventions to address the conflict age
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    Brazil in Africa: just another BRICS country seeking resources?

    Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
    Brazil has actively enhanced its presence on the African continent during the last decade. In the shadow of its BRICS partners China and India, whose engagement with Africa has attracted international attention and spurred a heated debate, Brazil has implemented an equally active, though less controversial policy towards Africa and has emerged as a relevant player on the continent.
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    Can China and Brazil help Africa feed itself?

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
    The questions of how Africa can feed itself, and how the agricultural sector can be a more effective engine for growth and development, have long been targets of national governments. Western donors have increased assistance following the 2007/8 food price crisis.
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    Russia–South Africa relations: beyond revival

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Although ANC leaders and activists still value the support and assistance Moscow provided during the liberation struggle, more important is the current place of Russia in foreign policy. 
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    China’s economic statecraft and African mineral resources: changing modes of engagement

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    China’s impressive inroads into Africa’s resources sectors over the past decade are explained largely by the timely match between a cash-loaded China in search of raw materials and a continent with a vast pool of underdeveloped mineral deposits, exploration of which has been hindered for decades by underinvestment and infrastructure bottlenecks.
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    Brazil–Africa technical co-operation: structure, achievements and challenges

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Increasingly, Brazil is regarded both within and outside of Africa as a reliable development partner. The policy brief offers an overview of Brazil’s technical co-operation with Africa, analysing the way it is structured, its major achievements so far and the challenges it faces at present. Such challenges include signs of institutional overstretch and contradictions.
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    China's evolving Africa policy: the limits of socialization - Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

    German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2011
    China’s policies toward Africa have transformed dramatically in the last decade, and this evolution has coincided with important shifts in China’s institutional decision-making processes on African affairs.  This journal issue presents new insights into how China’s presence on the African continent has evolved, what challenges it has encountered, and how this all affected th
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    A long-term vision for BRICS

    Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2013
    What will the BRICS look like in a decade and what will the key priorities and achievements be? This document aims to provide a long-term vision for the BRICS. There are five prominent agendas of cooperation and collaboration that emerge from this vision.
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    China's foreign aid and government-sponsored investment activities: scale, content, destinations, and implications

    RAND Corporation, 2013
    In the first decade of the 21st century, China greatly expanded its development-assistance and government investment programmes. These programmes now support initiatives in more than 90 nations around the world. Yet, until recently, little was known about the size and direction of such programmes.

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