Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2122547
Mellissa Simbisai Mlambo
ABSTRACT Traditional rulers have long provided security and stability in Nigeria. However, although they play an important governance role, they are not adequately acknowledged within governance literature and discourse. Primarily, this is because the latter are predominantly western-centred and thereby do not adequately acknowledge the nuances and differences in governance practices in other regions of the world. This article provides a Global South reading of governance, specifically focusing on traditional rulership in northern Nigeria. The article explores how and why traditional rulers wield and exercise power within their communities and provides new insights on how informal actors like traditional rulers can – and cannot – influence the governance arena, arguing for greater inclusion in the literature and discourse on the subject.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2127871
M. Strand
ABSTRACT Development aid discourses have been criticised for perpetuating othering and coloniality. They have been argued to produce and reproduce conceptual creations of a distinguishable ‘us’ and ‘them’ and uphold hierarchies where former colonial powers remain preeminent and subjugate the ‘Global South’. The turn of the century, however, saw the emergence of ‘development partnerships’ to rebalance asymmetrical relationships between donor and recipient. Developing a critical discourse analysis framework from decolonial scholarship and applying it to the United Kingdom Department for International Development’s development partnership with South Africa between 2014 and 2018, the article reveals clear examples of othering and coloniality. The suggestion of mutuality therefore appears to be just a façade, and the development partnership discourse is rather emphasising difference and justifying colonial hierarchies, contradicting its purported values. Recommendations include increased scrutiny of dehistoricised and decontextualised development narratives, and clearly stating national and political interests in bilateral partnerships.
{"title":"Coloniality and othering in DFID’s development partnership with South Africa","authors":"M. Strand","doi":"10.1080/10220461.2022.2127871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2022.2127871","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Development aid discourses have been criticised for perpetuating othering and coloniality. They have been argued to produce and reproduce conceptual creations of a distinguishable ‘us’ and ‘them’ and uphold hierarchies where former colonial powers remain preeminent and subjugate the ‘Global South’. The turn of the century, however, saw the emergence of ‘development partnerships’ to rebalance asymmetrical relationships between donor and recipient. Developing a critical discourse analysis framework from decolonial scholarship and applying it to the United Kingdom Department for International Development’s development partnership with South Africa between 2014 and 2018, the article reveals clear examples of othering and coloniality. The suggestion of mutuality therefore appears to be just a façade, and the development partnership discourse is rather emphasising difference and justifying colonial hierarchies, contradicting its purported values. Recommendations include increased scrutiny of dehistoricised and decontextualised development narratives, and clearly stating national and political interests in bilateral partnerships.","PeriodicalId":44641,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of International Affairs-SAJIA","volume":"29 1","pages":"365 - 386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47164234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2127870
Baffour Agyeman Prempeh Boakye
ABSTRACT It is widely argued that intra-party struggles for leadership and the emergence of factions within any political party are inevitable. However, it becomes problematic when cooperative factionalism within political parties turns out to be degenerative. This article sets out to illuminate some possible triggers that have contributed to the inability for Ghana's Convention People's Party (CPP) and People's National Convention (PNC) to overcome their fragmentation. The argument here is that excessive personality cults, coupled with the exploitation of warring factions within the CPP and PNC, have undermined the electoral prospects of these two Nkrumahist-inspired parties. The article notes, among other dynamics, the need for these parties to build robust party structures, tone down on excessive personalisation of party leadership, and minimise political opportunism.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2134201
B. Mantlana, A. O. Jegede
ABSTRACT This article presents a rationale for understanding how the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) operates in advancing the global response to climate change. It does this by highlighting key characteristics of this framework convention, whose multilateral process has led to the establishment of treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. The article also points out the complexity of the process within the annual meetings of the UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties (COP), the supreme decision-making body of the convention. Furthermore, the slow pace of progress of these multilateral negotiations and the reasons responsible for such slow progress are highlighted. The article notes that the next COP, under the leadership of Egypt, presents a significant opportunity to Africa to influence the process. As a whole, the article aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of this important multilateral process and the value of incremental change.
{"title":"Understanding the multilateral negotiations on climate change ahead of COP27: Priorities for the African region","authors":"B. Mantlana, A. O. Jegede","doi":"10.1080/10220461.2022.2134201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2022.2134201","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article presents a rationale for understanding how the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) operates in advancing the global response to climate change. It does this by highlighting key characteristics of this framework convention, whose multilateral process has led to the establishment of treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. The article also points out the complexity of the process within the annual meetings of the UNFCCC’s Conference of the Parties (COP), the supreme decision-making body of the convention. Furthermore, the slow pace of progress of these multilateral negotiations and the reasons responsible for such slow progress are highlighted. The article notes that the next COP, under the leadership of Egypt, presents a significant opportunity to Africa to influence the process. As a whole, the article aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of this important multilateral process and the value of incremental change.","PeriodicalId":44641,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of International Affairs-SAJIA","volume":"29 1","pages":"255 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47336455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2122549
Rouven Diekjobst
{"title":"Climate Refugees: Global, Local and Critical Approaches","authors":"Rouven Diekjobst","doi":"10.1080/10220461.2022.2122549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2022.2122549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44641,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of International Affairs-SAJIA","volume":"29 1","pages":"394 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41646577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2075912
D. Bridgman
toolkit for countries looking to regain the regulatory power they have handed over to international law and institutions in the past. That said, legitimate concerns remain regarding how to strike an appropriate balance between national security concerns and the extent to which FDI flows are promoted and investments protected. Cheng Bian’s work, through undertaking an in-depth comparative study and proposing an extensive – and nuanced – normative framework makes for excellent reading for scholars and practitioners that are interested in how to approach this, including in the South African context where the Competition Act has been amended relatively recently to enable FDI screening on national security grounds.
{"title":"Expensive Poverty: Why Aid Fails and How it Can Work","authors":"D. Bridgman","doi":"10.1080/10220461.2022.2075912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2022.2075912","url":null,"abstract":"toolkit for countries looking to regain the regulatory power they have handed over to international law and institutions in the past. That said, legitimate concerns remain regarding how to strike an appropriate balance between national security concerns and the extent to which FDI flows are promoted and investments protected. Cheng Bian’s work, through undertaking an in-depth comparative study and proposing an extensive – and nuanced – normative framework makes for excellent reading for scholars and practitioners that are interested in how to approach this, including in the South African context where the Competition Act has been amended relatively recently to enable FDI screening on national security grounds.","PeriodicalId":44641,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of International Affairs-SAJIA","volume":"29 1","pages":"247 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46868335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2075913
Anqi Wang
{"title":"National Security Review of Foreign Investment: A Comparative Legal Analysis of China, the United States and the European Union","authors":"Anqi Wang","doi":"10.1080/10220461.2022.2075913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2022.2075913","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44641,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of International Affairs-SAJIA","volume":"29 1","pages":"245 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42508658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2075911
Bhaso Ndzendze
{"title":"Border Wars: The Conflicts that Will Define Our Future","authors":"Bhaso Ndzendze","doi":"10.1080/10220461.2022.2075911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2022.2075911","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44641,"journal":{"name":"South African Journal of International Affairs-SAJIA","volume":"29 1","pages":"243 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46702732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2084452
Kwaku Arhin-Sam, A. Bisong, Leonie Jegen, Harouna Mounkaila, F. Zanker
ABSTRACT The free movement protocols of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have never been fully implemented, yet within the region people have continued to move relatively freely. At the same time, the original aim to improve mobility appears to be changing to one of control over mobility. Drawing on fieldwork data as well as a collaborative, deliberative process of uncovering what free movement means in conversations with a group of West African scholars and activists, this article seeks to better understand free movement in the region, despite all its paradoxes. It shows how formal free movement is undermined by several regional and national impediments, including weak ECOWAS institutions, divergent national interests among individual member states and infrastructural challenges like accessing ID cards, as well as external influence from the EU. These however work in convergence with a practice of everyday mobility within socio-political spaces that cross borders.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/10220461.2022.2076731
A. Langalanga
impact on development through aid, they must be willing to support responsive governments, rather than rewarding those that fail to be responsive. A different question, rather than why has aid failed, would be what can drive development in Africa? As the responsibility for developing the countries of Africa can lie only with Africans, and in particular with those in leadership positions driving the development agenda, this is an important distinction. Aid can only support the implementation of well-judged and sensible policies, and can neither buy them, nor be a substitute for them. To use a current analogy, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cannot be stopped by NATO or the US donating arms to Ukraine, it can only be stopped by the bravery of Ukrainians, their determination to hold their attacker at bay, and the strategic skill of Ukrainian political and military leaders in addressing the invasion. Where these are present, the donations of arms from NATO and the US can support the mission – where they are absent, no amount of arms donations could be effective in slowing or blocking the invasion.
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