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| Author | : Ian Taylor |
| Publisher | : Praeger |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2001-09-30 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy has been a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities. The accession by leading fractions of the African National Congress to the ongoing discourse of neo-liberalism has led to the policy making elite playing to two distinct audiences: its Leftist-inclined constituency within the Government of National Unity and externally oriented domestic and international capital. This second audience is increasingly integrating the GNU elite into a group which more and more reflects the concerns, aspirations, and demands of a transnational class elite. This move mirrors South Africa's ongoing incorporation into the international political economy as a global middle-power, a bridgebuilder between the global hegemons and those reluctant to follow their lead. Taylor's fundamental theoretical approach that underpins the study--namely a neo-gramscian interpretation of the global political economy and the importance of middle powers--sets it apart from other studies of contemporary South African foriegn policy making. He also provides a useful source for Africanists and South Africa specialists in particular. This is partly because of the accessible style of presentation. But it is also because he has chosen case studies of interaction with multilateral groupings and organizations. This approach marks the volume out as being different from the normal assessment of South African foreign policy--particularly the specific multilateral agencies that he has chosen to focus on.
| Author | : Janel Dunkel |
| Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 119 |
| Release | : 2022-11-03 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 164299281X |
And in fairness, she said she wanted to run away from home. She had packed up this little miniature brick red suitcase with what she thought were her prized possessions, and she stood in front of the glass storm door for the longest time. I watched impatiently from around the corner. What is she waiting for? I wondered. Did she think some magical bus was going to pull up and take her off to some land where she was an only child? A place where such things as hand-me-downs and bunk beds didn't exist? It's been so long now, I can't remember if there was any prediscussion or if I just walked up and pushed her, suitcase and all, out the door. Problem is, the door didn't open. It shattered, and she fell out. You know how you sometimes see a look on someone's face that just makes you Cringe. With. Fear? It was that look. I half expected her head to start spinning around, and for that briefest of moments, I was frozen in fear. I suppose that fact that she said she was going to run away and my delight in the prospect of having a room all to my own clouded my judgment, and well, the rest as they say, is history. Sibling rivalry is a struggle many of us have encountered. Trying to find your place in a family is hard. I was the maladjusted middle child in a family of seven children. Struggling to be noticed or once in a while to just win at something. This is "my" story about growing up in a close family where laughter is all we needed to survive. Of course, their versions could be different, but they didn't write a book now, did they! #FINALLYWINNING
| Author | : Thomas-Durell Young |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 247 |
| Release | : 2023-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000970795 |
This book on the economics of defence industry assesses a series of historical and contemporary case studies that consistently demonstrate the need for governments to recognise, and thereafter factor, the financial needs of a narrow industrial sector that is capital intensive, technologically advanced and that requires a highly skilled labour force. Since the end of the cold war, Western governments have systematically reduced financial support to their domestic defence industry and have seemingly ignored planning and funding industrial mobilisation. In all cases, government policy has been to encourage industries to consolidate capacity to become financially viable in a sector that has seen diminished demand. The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused Western governments to reassess their previous assumptions. Efforts to increase industrial capacity have been met with the iron laws of economics whereby businesses need to show return on investments. The chapters in this volume posit that efforts to rationalise industrial capacity and innovation to meet short-term financial efficiencies, inevitably results in limited, expensive, and long delays in increased production in times of international crisis. This book serves as an essential guide for academics, researchers and students interested in defence economics, industrial economics, international relations, and industrial policy. The chapters in this book were originally published in various issues of Defense & Security Analysis.
| Author | : Wil Hout |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 181 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1135737711 |
This book discusses the European Union’s approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing countries. A group of expert authors outline the general features of the position on governance taken by the EU, which is currently the major multilateral donor of development assistance, and discuss the implementation of EU policies in a set of cases: the group of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), Southeastern Europe, Central Asia, the Euro-Mediterranean, Latin America and fragile states. The contributions to the book argue that the EU’s position on governance reform, particularly since the adoption of the European Consensus on Development in 2005, has had distinctly neoliberal overtones. The EU’s governance-related strategies have been instrumental to deepening market-based reform in aid-receiving countries. Policies on state-building adopted by the EU reflect mainly the interests of and ideas embraced by the EU and its member states. To an important extent, the rhetoric accompanying EU policies does not match with the political and social dynamics inherent in governance structures on the ground in many of its aid-recipient partner countries. This book was published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly.
| Author | : James J. Hentz |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0253217210 |
Examines South Africa's role in regional political economy since its transition to democracy.
| Author | : Niall Ferguson |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 610 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0735222916 |
A reevaluation of history's turning points as collisions between old power hierarchies and new social networks explains how networks have always existed and have been responsible for key innovations and revolutionary ideas.
| Author | : Ajay Kumar Dubey |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2015-09-21 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 8132226194 |
This book demonstrates the changing dynamics of India’s engagement with Africa, focusing on trade, investment, official development assistance, capacity building activities and the diaspora. It also examines its impact at the economic, political and societal levels with respect to governance, democratic structures, education and health. India has competitive edge of historical goodwill and it is one of the most important countries engaging Africa in the 21st Century. For Africa, India has emerged from an aid recipient country to a major aid provider but on a basis of partnership model. The book provides a contemporary analysis and assessment of Indo-Africa relations, bringing together contributions from the Global South and from the North that explore whether the relationship is truly ‘mutually beneficial’.
| Author | : John Siko |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2014-06-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0857723715 |
South Africa is a major player in African diplomacy. Its economic, diplomatic and military resources far outstrip those of other nations on the continent, and it has, since the country's 1994 democratic transition, sought to take a lead role in the continent's relations with other power blocs, particularly during the 1999-2008 presidency of Thabo Mbeki. While Mbeki's push for greater African engagement in the global political sphere drew widespread praise, other positions-notably its seeming inaction toward Zimbabwe and perceived abandonment of its stated emphasis on human rights in foreignpolicy-were more controversial, both at home and abroad. John Siko has had insider access to South Africa's leading foreign policy players, and has been able to ask why Pretoria has taken its various stances and who has mattered in influencing those decisions, a topic little examined since 1994. In addition, he examines the foreign policy process over the past century, determining that despite ANC promises of greater democratic engagement on foreign policy, the process has changed quite little.
| Author | : Paul-Henri Bischoff |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2015-10-05 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317437535 |
Recent scholarship in International Relations (IR) has started to study the meaning and implications of a non-Western world. With this comes the need for a new paradigm of IR theory that is more global, open, inclusive, and able to capture the voices and experiences of both Western and non-Western worlds. This book investigates why Africa has been marginalised in IR discipline and theory and how this issue can be addressed in the context of the emerging Global IR paradigm. To have relevance for Africa, a new IR theory needs to be more inclusive, intellectually negotiated and holistically steeped in the African context. In this innovative volume, each author takes a critical look at existing IR paradigms and offers a unique perspective based on the African experience. Following on from Amitav Acharya and Barry Buzan’s work, Non-Western International Relations Theory, it develops and advances non-Western IR theory and the idea of Global IR. This volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of African politics, international relations, IR theory and comparative politics.
| Author | : J. Haynes |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2005-04-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0230502865 |
Palgrave Advances in Development Studies aims to provide readers with an understanding of the disparate theories concerning development, their assumptions and the intellectual forces underpinning them. In thirteen specially commissioned essays, leading contributors from the field of Development Studies present the relevant material to analyze and evaluate current debates about development, together with the intellectual tools to judge contemporary arguments concerning development across the world and the ability to relate theories of development to contemporary policy issues.
