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Preparing for FOCAC VI: China - South Africa co-operation in conservation and renewable energy
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2015As China’s development puts increasing pressure on the environment, various measures have been implemented both domestically and, increasingly, abroad in an attempt to limit the impact.DocumentThe chimera of global convergence
Transnational Institute, 2014It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.DocumentShifting power reader: critical perspectives on emerging economies
Transnational Institute, 2014Does 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?DocumentThe emerging economies and climate change: a case study of the BASIC grouping
Transnational Institute, 2014Among the most dramatic and far-reaching geopolitical developments of the post-Cold War era is the shift in the locus of global power away from the West with the simultaneous emergence as major powers of former colonies and other countries in the South, which were long on the periphery of international capitalism.DocumentBRICS: a global trade power in a multi-polar world
Transnational Institute, 2014Central to the narrative of emerging powers, and particularly the BRICS, is the issue of trade, as both the driver of their economic surge, the factor behind their growing economies and the platform it has given them to assert influence in global governance.DocumentSouth Africa and the BRICS alliance: challenges and opportunities for South Africa and Africa
Transnational Institute, 2014South Africa under the ANC and its alliance with the BRICS promised a more moral, democratic vision of global governance, but in practice its foreign policy has been too often swayed by narrow commercial interests and short-term growth. For the past decade, Africa has experienced the longest continuous growth spurt since independence from colonialism.DocumentChina and India, “rising powers” and African development : challenges and opportunities
Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2014In this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope.DocumentThe Brics and global capitalism
Transnational Institute, 2014Does 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?DocumentLand grabbing under the Cover of Law: Are BRICS-South relationships any different?
Transnational Institute, 2014There 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’.DocumentChina rising: a new world order or an old order renewed?
Transnational Institute, 2014China’s remarkable economic performance over more than thirty five years and its transformation into one of the world’s biggest trading powers, has led many to believe that it will be the successor to the US in global dominance.Pages