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Faith-Based Organizations and the Challenge of Developmental Social Welfare in Democratic South Africa
With the advent of democracy in South Africa during the early to mid-1990s, favorable conditions would emerge for this country’s faith-based...
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Reconstruction in the Aftermath of Global Health and Economic Crises: Historical Lessons for South Africa
Historically, the state has played a leading role in using crises to spur social and economic change. This chapter draws lessons from different...
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From Norm-Maker to Norm-Taker? South Africa, the BRICS and the African National Congress’ Hegemonic Decline
Following the establishment of its first democratic government in 1994, the South African state began an international rehabilitation program. The...
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South Africa’s Reconciliation Project 25 years After Democracy
This chapter aims to highlight the importance of economic justice within any reconciliation model that seeks to bring sustainable peace, comparing...
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Foreign Economic Policy Towards Africa
The economic dimension of India’s foreign policy radically changed in 1991. The liberalisation of the economy has had a profound impact on foreign...
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The South Atlantic in China’s Global Policy: Why It Matters?
There is extensive literature regarding the importance of sea-lane communications to China, explaining the continuous modernization and mobilization...
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Energy Transition for Post-COVID-19 South Africa
This chapter contends that there needs to be careful coordination and appropriate funding of the required manufacturing operations for South Africa...
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State (Re)-Building and Welfare State Development in Post-apartheid South Africa
Welfare state-building in post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by the refusal to shed the liberal-oriented outlook inherited from the...
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The Voice of the Voiceless: The State of Civil and Political Rights in South Africa
While the 1996 adoption of the constitution and the democratic breakthrough in 1994 ensure that civil and political rights are guaranteed, structural...
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Mazrui’s Revival in IR
Although Ali Mazrui never abandoned the cultural framework of analysis since he first used it in 1963, his focus on it became sharper after 1990....
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Severity, salience, and selectivity: understanding the varying responses to regional crises by Brazil and South Africa
Political, military and humanitarian crises endanger regional order. But even though regional powers are expected to act as stabilizers in these...
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Introduction: Responding to Pandemics and Economic Challenges: Policy Choices Post Covid-19
This research project was initiated at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a time marked by significant economic and social dislocations around...
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United Nations Role in the Economic Community of Central African States: Central African Republic and Chad
Against Africa’s vast mineral and agriculture resources is a secured international security architecture that underpins superpower military regimes...
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Revisiting Stokes’ Theory of Slums: Towards Decolonised Housing Concepts from the Global South
Recently, large-scale housing programmes have experienced a revival in many countries of the Global South. They are criticised for their top-down,...
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Forging a Developmental State in Post-apartheid South Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Structural and Political Barriers to Industrialization
The concept of a developmental state has become part of the political discourse in South Africa over the last decade. This chapter examines the...
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Shift in Climate Discourse
Turning to the empirical analysis section of the book, this chapter examines how the global discourse on climate policy has evolved in the last few...
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Conclusion: Building a Resilient State and Inclusive Society
There are several global historical lessons that South African policymakers can deploy as a framework for sha** the future economic policy and...
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Normative Power China, Subnational Agency, and Structural Factors in the Global South
The concluding chapter constructs a unifying conceptual framework for China’s multifaceted impact on the Global South illustrated by the...
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Implications of China–US Rivalry on Africa
This chapter looks at the role of Africa’s elites in constraining the continent’s development prospects. This discussion considers Africa’s position...
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Africa in the Changing Global Order: The Past, the Present, and the Future
This chapter sets the tone for this handbook. The chapter foregrounds contemporary Africa’s relations with the world in the context of the long...