Summary: The article first describes the emergence and contemporary practice of health diplomacy; this
is followed by a discussion of niche diplomacy, in particular as it applies to the foreign policy
agendas of emerging ...
Amdahl, Lars Kjeang(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of Africa’s longest civil wars ended for the second time in 2005, when the leaders of the government of Sudan and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement and Army signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This case study on East Africa analyses the impact of changing power relations over the last
decade on Egypt’s hydro-hegemony on the Nile River Basin. Covering one-tenth of Africa’s
landmass and providing ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The core question that is addressed by this research is whether, and to what extent South African women’s NGOs contribute to enhancing state feminism through their ability to articulate and mobilise the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study attempts to analyse the global economic system in light of the ongoing financial crisis, which is seen as a symptom of a larger crisis of the legitimacy of the capitalist system. It takes a ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study analyzes the Mexican drug war’s impact on the state’s federal
political system of shared sovereignty. Transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) such
as drug cartels have grown in ...
Heradien, Elde Joy(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis evaluated the theory behind the South African Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) during its first phase from 2004-2009. The research examined how sound the EPWP theory was which explains ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The point of departure for this study was the wide-ranging furore in media publications regarding the pervasive decline in donor funding for civil society organisations in South Africa, as influenced by ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study set out to research the influence of a local non-state actor on the role and authority of the state, in the domestic environment. Accordingly, the research problem focused on the impact of a ...
Jengo, Elisabeth Naito(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since Burundi gained independence in 1962, this country has experienced periods of mass
communal violence. Extensive scholarly research has focused on exploring the factors
behind, and the nature of, ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Electricity is the key to economic growth and numerous aspects of human development. Africa’s installed generation capacity is dire, alongside it being the biggest funding backlog the power sector. There ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The constant growth in information and communications technology (ICT) broadens the capabilities of researchers to understand and interpret the social world. New multidisciplinary methods of measuring ...
Du Toit, Gerda Maria(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Chinese national oil corporations have increased their foreign direct investments over the
last decade in Africa, where the political environment of oil producing countries often expose the
firms to ...
Zajontz, Alexander Tim(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study seeks to analyse regionalism in theory as well as in practice with regard to the Southern African region. Its purpose is thereby twofold: Firstly, this work claims to make a contribution to ...
Van Vuuren, Ian(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis describes the development of neoliberalism within the global context and explains
how this ideology influenced economic policy formulation in post-apartheid South Africa.
Policies from the ...