Browsing Research Articles (Political Science (Mil)) by Title
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Participatory democracy in theory and practice : a case study of local government in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2015)The idea of democracy is a curious oneand puzzling. There is reason for this;everyone talks about democracy no matter whether their views are on the left, centreor right of the political spectrum. Various politicians, ... -
Political apathy amongst students : a case study of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
(AOSIS, 2017)The primary motivation for this research, in which a qualitative method was employed, was to examine political apathy amongst students at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. The secondary motivation was to question ... -
Russia’s Hybrid War and its implications for Defence and Security in the United Kingdom
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2017)This article uses the example of Russia’s aggressive action against Ukraine as an example of a new form of contemporary war fighting, namely hybrid war, and discusses how Russia has been successful in exploiting vulnerabilities ... -
Sociology in practice : H W van der Merwe's contribution to conflict resolution and mediation in South Africa
(SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2011)Conflict, repression and resistance had an alienating effect on a micro- and macro-level in apartheid South Africa. This brings to mind Hendrik Willem van der Merwe as a person who united South Africa's enemies. This article ... -
South Africa’s post-apartheid military : lost in transition and transformation
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2020-10)The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) recently celebrated, “25 Years of Defence in Democracy”[i]. Professor Lindy Heinecken’s latest book, South Africa’s post-apartheid military: Lost in transition and transformation, ... -
Teetering on Africa’s development trajectories - a search for an African alternative
(2018-06)This article analyses the so-called key drivers of development in post-colonial Africa in the contexts of African leaders’ conceptualisation thereof. It exposes the divergent concepts of development that have appeared to ... -
Theoretical approaches in international relations : the South African military as a foreign policy instrument
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2015)The utility of theoretical approaches in international relations can be found in the fact that such approaches provide ‘lenses’ that can be applied to enhance our understanding of the social dynamics of the world we live ... -
Trans-Atlantic relations in the Southern Cone : a common security agenda
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 1998)The countries on both shores of the South Atlantic Ocean have often looked more to the north for solutions to their socio-economic and security challenges than to their counterparts across the ocean. This approach has not ... -
Viewing 'the other' over a hundred and a score more years : South Africa and Russia (1890–2010)
(AOSIS, 2010-03-30)Whether novel is history or history is novel, is a tantalising point. “The novel is no longer a work, a thing to make las t, to connect the pas t with the future but (only) one current event among many, a ges ture with no ...
