JCH 2016 Volume 41 Issue 1
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Review article/Oorsigartikel: How Nigeria's Islamist insurgency became the world's deadliest terrorist group
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The challenges of diplomatic practice in Africa
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)Diplomacy has been used in the conduct of foreign policies in Africa. However, a disconcerting trend in the practice of diplomacy in Africa is the often limited successes, and sometimes failures, of states and regional ... -
Africa and the idea of international society
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)The shared interests and values of sovereign states prompt them to commit to common rules, conventions and institutions within an inter-subjective “society”, where diplomacy is used as main currency. The idea of international ... -
High-level panels as diplomatic instruments: the African Union panel of the wise and the emergence of an African Peace Diplomacy Architecture
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)High-level panels are institutionalized diplomatic instruments comprising high-profile and respected individuals to address a particular issue. Building on traditional and contemporary institutions in recognizing the ... -
The role of the BRIC in Africa's development: drivers and strategies
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)National interest still trumps friendship in international relations. The notions of solidarity that were popular among developing countries in the 1950s and the 1960s have no resonance in 21st century diplomacy, which ... -
African solutions for African problems: quiet diplomacy and South Africa's diplomatic strategy towards Zimbabwe
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)Zimbabwe is not just a foreign policy issue for South Africa; it has become a domestic policy concern. Political, socio-economic and cultural issues have coalesced in a manner that have forced the Zimbabwe question onto ... -
Historical institutionalism and the development of sub-state diplomacy in South Africa
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)This article borrows theoretical insights from historical institutionalism to analyse the development of sub-state diplomacy in the South African context. It identifies the political negotiations that allowed South Africa ... -
A decolonial turn in diplomatic theory: unmasking epistemic injustice
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)The subject of the decolonisation of knowledge broadly, and the social sciences as they are practiced in the developing world, is growing. This is linked to the need to decolonise the modern Kantian university as an ... -
Ethnic mobilisation and Kenya's foreign policy in the face of the international criminal court (ICC)
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)Until the issue of international criminal justice entered into Kenya’s politics, following the violently disputed 2007 elections, Kenya’s successive governments had never taken international diplomacy and foreign policy ... -
South Africa's two track approach to science diplomacy
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)While debate continues around the usefulness of the concept of Science Diplomacy, in practice international scientific relations are already facilitating diplomatic engagement, and diplomatic relations are supporting ...
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