Recently added articles from Strategic Review for Southern Africa:
Attacks on foreigners in South Africa: more than just xenophobia?
Nov 01, 2008; ... On 11 May 2008, violent attacks against non-citizens began in Alexandra before spreading rapidly across Gauteng and then elsewhere in the country. This article explains what helped translate long-term concerns over people's physical and economic insecurity into a murderous anti-foreigner ...
Transfer of arms to conflict areas: South Africa's responsibilities.(Company overview)
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In May 2008 a consignment of conventional weapons destined for Zimbabwe arrived in the Durban harbour. The official authorisation for the transfer of the consignment over South African territory to Zimbabwe was interdicted by the dock workers' refusal to offload and an ...
Population growth: its effect on human security with emphasis on South Africa.
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT As early as the 1960s a number of demographers warned that the world was fast becoming over-populated. They held international conferences to highlight the problem, and attempted to get the attention of world bodies like the United Nations, as well as that of national ...
The extent and security implications of money laundering in South Africa.
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Money laundering presents challenges to legislators, both in South Africa and globally, considering that its use ranges from criminal syndicates profiting from criminal activities, to financiers of terrorist activities. By using South Africa as an example, it is ...
Defence diplomacy: conceptual and practical dimensions with specific reference to South Africa.
Nov 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article explores defence diplomacy with reference to South Africa. Although the use of military means for diplomatic purposes is an established practice in South Africa, it is argued that as defence foreign relations, South African defence diplomacy approximates a ...
Recent publications/resente publikasies.
Nov 01, 2008 ... (A complete list of ISSUP publications is available on request/ 'n Volledige lys van ISSUP-publikasies is op aanvraag beskikbaar) AD HOC PUBLICATIONS/PUBLIKASIES Selected documents and commentaries on negotiations and constitutional development in the RSA: 1989-1994, ...
Non-alignment in the current world order: the impact of the rise of China.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The relevance of the Non-Aligned Movement has been in question since the end of Cold War bipolarity. In the post-Cold War order, whether interpreted as cosmopolitan, unipolar, multipolar or globalised in nature, there are still challenges to the main purpose of the ...
The European development and South African application of the concept of non-offensive defence.
May 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The article provides a chronological analysis of the development of non-offensive defence. As a point of departure, it demarcates the roots, the unfolding of, and the application of non-offensive defence in Western Europe. The debate about non-offensive defence in ...
State and state-sponsored terrorism in Africa: the case of Libya and Sudan.
May 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article aims to describe past and present state sponsorship of international terrorism in Africa. Firstly, it commences by exploring the differences between terrorism, international terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism. Secondly, it details the United States' ...
South Africa's new counter-mercenary law.
May 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT An overview is provided of the new counter-mercenary legislation recently adopted in South Africa, comparing existing legislation and the new Act. Suggestions are made, with reference to international humanitarian law, in respect of the interpretation of terminology and ...
The multilateral maze and (South) Africa's quest for permanent United Nations Security Council representation.(Report)
May 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful global governance forum in the history of humankind. In a rapidly globalising world its constitutive mandate--addressing issues of international peace and security--is expanding and becoming increasingly diffuse ...
From defence doctrine to national security strategy: the case of the Netherlands.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT In describing Dutch security policy, the military model of levels of strategy is applied to the (civil) national security environment, followed by a discussion of the Netherlands Defence Doctrine (2005) and the Netherlands National Security Strategy (2007), and by a ...
Suicide attacks as a terrorist tactic: characteristics and counter-measures.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT As a systematic terrorist tactic, suicide attacks are a relatively new phenomenon. The article surveys the dimensions of this phenomenon, influencing factors, and counter-measures. After an overview of the political and strategic significance of this tactic, the article ...
Domestic, international and transnational terror after 2001: towards a new typology?(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article addresses the traditional distinction between domestic and international terrorism, and the blurring of these two types. The latter trend emerged in 2005 when the United States official annual global terror statistics included acts of domestic terror, ...
Pursuing an effective African peacekeeping capability: what could be learned from Burundi and Darfur (Sudan).(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT If planning comes to fruition, the African Union should have a six brigade United Nations-style African Standby Force ready to police the continent's conflicts by the end of this decade. While there is no lack of political support for the development of the African ...
China in Africa: the rise of hegemony?(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; ... "China is both a tantalising opportunity and a terrifying threat"--Moeletsi Mbeki (1)) ABSTRACT This article explores China's international role with reference to Africa in order to answer the question whether China can, in fact, be considered an emerging hegemon ...