The Politics Of Economic Power In Southern Africa

Author : Ronald T. Libby
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400858828
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Economic Power in Southern Africa written by Ronald T. Libby and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book questions the notion that South Africa can exert effective political leverage over its economically dependent neighbors while itself remaining free of regional influences. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sam Hickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198850344
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Sam Hickey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)"

Author : Kathryn Hochstetler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843840
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Economies of Energy Transition written by Kathryn Hochstetler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.

Author : Sören Scholvin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317030451
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geopolitics of Regional Power written by Sören Scholvin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, various states from the Global South have emerged as important players in international relations. Most popular among them is China. Brazil, India and South Africa have also taken essential roles in global and regional politics. Compared to traditional great powers, they can be labelled ’regional great powers’ or ’regional powers’ because their influence is - with the exception of China - concentrated on their neighbourhood. The impact of regions, meaning the impact of geography, on the economics and politics of regional powers is surprisingly understudied. This book analyses how geographical conditions influence the regional economics and politics of South Africa, allowing the author to delineate its region of influence.

Author : Sam Hickey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192590693
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa written by Sam Hickey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus all major international development agencies and bilateral donors now include a strong focus on social protection in their advocacy and programmatic interventions and a commitment to providing social protection was recently enshrined within the Sustainable Development Goals. The rhetoric around social protection, particularly when delivered in the form of cash transfers, has sometimes reached hyperbolic proportions with advocates seeing it as a magic bullet that can tackle multi-dimensional problems of poverty, vulnerability, and inequality and a southern-led success story that challenges the unequal power relations inherent within international aid. The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa challenges the common conception that this phenomenon has been entirely driven by international development agencies, instead focusing on the critical role of political dynamics within specific African countries. It details how the power and politics at multiple levels of governance shapes the extent to which political elites are committed to social protection, the form that this commitment takes, and the implications that this has for future welfare regimes and state-citizen relations in Africa. It reveals how international pressures only take hold when they become aligned with the incentives and ideas of ruling elites in particular contexts. It shows how elections, the politics of clientelism, political ideologies, and elite perceptions all play powerful roles in shaping when countries adopt social protection and at what levels, which groups receive benefits, and how programmes are delivered.

Author : Olusola Ogunnubi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527561941
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Politics in Africa written by Olusola Ogunnubi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the subject of power politics in Africa, paying special attention to the interests of African regional powers, as well as their capabilities and strategies in the international arena. It provides a theoretical bridge between concerns for militarised national interest, perpetual distrust and insecurity, struggles for power and hegemony in power politics, and the spirit of pan-African solidarity, brotherhood, consensus, cooperation and integration. It is on these bases that this volume offers rich empirical insight into leading regional powers in Africa with special attention given to Nigeria and South Africa. It serves to contribute African perspectives to the field of International Relations, particularly regarding power politics, which is important in terms of Africanising the narratives of a subject matter that is largely considered as Eurocentric in African and other non-Western societies.

Author : Margaret Carol Lee
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781588262240
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southern Africa written by Margaret Carol Lee and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of increasing economic globalization, the countries of southern Africa have made commitments to enhanced regional development and the integration of their economies. Margaret Lee examines the challenges to regionalism in southern Africa, providing a critical assessment of the prospects for successful implementation. Lee's detailed study of the processes driving (or inhibiting) regional integration is firmly grounded in the history of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Her analysis of the evolution of the SADC regional economy, as well as its political, social, and economic contexts, is a major contribution to debates about the merits and pitfalls of regionalism and options for African integration.

Author : Ben Fine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429975635
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy Of South Africa written by Ben Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening economic inequalities. Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic system, this book presents the results and implications of wide-ranging research on the history and current dynamics of the South African economy over the past fifty years. The authors analyze a range of strategic economic trajectories, linking these to the shifting balance of economic and political power, and they set the parameters within which the economic and political debates are conducted. }The acclaim with which democratization in South Africa has been greeted has been tempered by the recognition that there are at the same time continuing and even deepening economic inequalities. This is more disturbing given the extreme economic disparity experienced by much of the black population, the retreat from commitments to public ownership enshrined in the Freedom Charter, the unambiguous safeguarding of private capital, and the obstacles placed in the way of progressive economic policies by business interests and the entrenched apartheid-era bureaucracy. Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic system, this book presents the results and implications of detailed and wide-ranging research on both the history and current dynamics of the South African economy, from the Second World War to the present. The authors analyze a range of strategic economic trajectories, linking these to the shifting balance of economic and political power in South Africa. But their approach is not prescriptive; instead they set the parameters within which the economic and political debates are conducted. They also discuss the theoretical arguments involved in the propositions that they and others have put forward. The books value is enhanced by the comprehensiveness of the data presented, and each chapter is self-contained so that particular topics can be studied separately.

Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781919713465
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power, Wealth and Global Order written by Philip Nel and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus throughout this workbook falls on the acquisition of three core skills: knowledge of Africa and the developing world in general -- critical reasoning skills, and writing and analytical skills. The Workbook is divided into 15 sets of exercises, which can be used during formal lecture sessions or during tutorial group activities. Each set begins with a brief statement of the basic skills to be developed in that particular set of exercises, together with an indication of the appropriate chapter or chapters from Power, Wealth and Global Order on which the exercises are based.

Author : Joseph Hanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780852553077
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beggar Your Neighbours written by Joseph Hanlon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". comprehensive in its coverage, exacting in its standards of description and interpretation, and almost faultless in its use of source material and existing literature... " -- Anti-Apartheid News ..". an excellent compendium of information on the military and economic power that South Africa applies in dealing with its neighbors." -- Foreign Service Journal ..". important for the shaping of Western policy toward South Africa." -- The Book Exchange ..". impressive... indispensable." -- Third World Book Review "This is a very important book." -- Social Dynamics Hanlon pieces together the details of South Africa's military attacks on its neighbors and relates them to the control the South African state exercises through its economic power.