Department of Political Science

Christian ethics in South Africa : liberal values among the public and elites

Kotze, Hennie; Loubser, Reinet (Department of Old and New Testament - Stellenbosch University, 2018)

This article uses statistical data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the South African Opinion Leader Survey to examine liberal values and attitudes among the following samples of South Africans: Afrikaans, English, ...

International electoral observation in Southern Africa: Botswana experience

Dibeela, Game (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: International electoral observation has become a customary normative practice deeply embedded in Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) democratisation agenda. Consequently, the phenomenon ...

The role of MNCs in China and Brazil’s foreign policy towards developing states in Africa

Tukic, Nusa (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: While most international political economy (IPE) literature has been concerned with the relations between multinational corporations (MNCs) and the host states in which they operate, this study sought ...

The sexual politics of international norm dynamics: The contemporary governance of marriage equality

Van Wyk, Blain (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the last two decades marriage equality has emerged to become the dominant issue in contemporary (homo)sexual and queer governance in the so-called Western world. At the same time, there has been an ...

Women in the informal economy: Precarious labour in South Africa

Mabilo, Makoma (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: High levels of unemployment, widespread poverty and growing inequality in South Africa have led to an emphasis on employment as a solution to these problems. In the current post-apartheid era, various ...

The political engagement of the major world religions. Religion: Not Quite “The Opium of the Masses.”

Augustyn, Hein (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The world is becoming more religious, not less as was previously expected. However, the world’s religions differ and do not have the same teachings and values. At the same time it is important for democratic ...

Struggle(s) for Self-determination: Afrikaner Aspirations in the Twenty-first Century

Visagie, Riaan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question of self-determination is not a new one. Struggles for autonomy have drawn interest both from within and outside academia, and as a phenomena is not confined solely to history. Contemporary ...

Beating the resource curse: Transparency in Kenya's upstream oil and gas sector

Brunton, Sally Lesley (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 2012 Tullow Oil plc discovered commercial quantities of crude oil onshore Kenya. Additional commercial discoveries have subsequently been made and estimates suggest that Kenya’s oil reserves are ...

Return of the city state? an assessment of city international relations

Beukman, Eduard Francois (University of Southern California, 2017)

Cities have ever been part of the international relations system but have not been adequately examined by international relations theory as a subnational actor that can act independently of the nation-state. It has allowed ...

The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights: A normative account of the business and human rights norm in the Malawian sugar industry

Murray, James Henry (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study delves into the business and human rights norm that in recent years has been drawn ever closer to center of non-state, and particularly transnational corporations (TNCs), governance debates. ...

How the ANC, the DA and the EFF construct South Africa as a nation

Koekemoer, Anja (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The ‘nation’ is a powerful social construct. How it is understood has significant consequences for a society and its people. Actors compete for the ability to define the ‘nation’ as a means to spread their ...

South African land reform as peacebuilding: integrating perspectives from social identity theory and symbolic politics in a peacebuilding conceptual framework

Young, Gert (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers land reform as an essential part of the South African transformation. In particular it considers land reform as having the potential to impact social relations and therefore as an ...

Political Risk in the Agricultural Industry in the SADC region: the Cases of Mozambique and Zambia

Matthee, Thurstan Jean Vivian (2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Amidst the decline in investment returns of traditional sectors such as the oil and gas industry, investment in the agricultural sector is increasingly proving to be a viable alternative. In the Ernst & ...

Toxic trade: E-waste disposal and environmental governance in West Africa

Hector, Michael (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following research aims to approach the illicit e-waste trade from a transnational environmental crime perspective. The study of environmental crime is one that is defined in various ways. This study ...

Constructing a scenario planning method as a tool for political risk mitigation: The case of Exxon Mobil’s Operations in the South China Sea

Silber, Jared Ross (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Uncertainty and unpredictability within the global political environment has presented considerable political risks for businesses and organisations. An alternative means to explore how these actors can ...

How social media facilitate public participation in the election of a new government: A critical analysis of Twitter discourses in Zimbabwe during the 2013 elections

Makombe, Leonard (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research is hinged on three overlapping fields namely, political studies, journalism, and media studies and explores how Twitter, a relatively new information and communication technology (established ...