Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Political Science) by Title
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Rationalising the management of individuals : theory, power and subjects in the thought of Michel Foucault.
(1997)This thesis explores the implications of the work of Michel Foucault for the Enlightenment project. Specifically, it asks whether and how the modern drive to explain the world so as to guide political action and promote ... -
The role of identity and interest in the evolution and sustenance of Sino-Zambian relations: a constructivist perspective.
(2017)Relying on China-Zambia relations as a case study, this dissertation uses the constructivist approach to international relations to look at the role that identity and interests play in shaping relations between nations. ... -
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy towards Southern Africa, 1994-2014 : partner or hegemon?
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The state and ethno-religious violence in plateau state: developing a peace-building framework as a conflict prevention strategy.
(2015)Contemporary states continue to battle with inter-group tensions, resulting in violent conflict. Ethno-religious violence in Plateau state in north central Nigeria is a case in point. While violent conflicts of an ethnic ... -
The theory and application of consociational democracy in South Africa : a case study of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2015)Liberal democracy has failed to address issues of development, especially in plural societies such as South Africa, where different segments of society and government representation coexist. Its focus on individualism ... -
Transforming local economies through land reform : political dilemmas and rural development realities in South Africa.
(2016)The land/agrarian question has always been at the center of South Africa’s struggle for liberation. Land itself has always been a source from which Africans and particularly the rural inhabitants have derived their livelihood. ... -
The United Democratic Front (UDF) : a case study of democratic organisation, 1983-1987.
(1998)This study, using the theoretical basis of the writings of Lenin and Gramsci on revolutionary theory and praxis, traces the formation, policy and aims, membership and structure, and practices of the United Democratic ... -
United States Africa command and human security in Africa.
(2016)Since 2005, the United States (US) has shifted its justification for the militarization of the African continent to the more humanitarian security-development discourse. This apparent paradigmatic shift presents the United ... -
War and alliances : the transformative roles of external actors in the Somali conflict.
(2015)The Somali conflict is not completely driven by internal factors and not prosecuted entirely by internal actors. Significant involvements, interventions and varying forms of alliances of external and internal actors ... -
Where faith is a healer: assessing faith-based organisations' strategies and their partnership with government towards poverty alleviation: case study of PACSA and Gift of the Givers in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).
(2016)The modern conception of a liberal democratic state envisages that the state takes on the duty and hegemony of realizing the values of equal liberty and distributive justice to its citizens. This is supposedly achieved by ...