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Liberal Democracy and Peace in South Africa
Author | : H. Kotzé,Pierre du Toit |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2010-12-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230116320 |
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South Africa's transition to democracy was met by the global audience with at first, disbelief, followed later by applause. After fifteen years of democracy big questions remain: has a more democratic regime also lead to a more liberal society? And has democracy made for a more peaceful society?
South Africa and the Case for Renegotiating the Peace
Author | : Pierre du Toit |
Publsiher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781928357148 |
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South Africa is awash with policy failures, and policy confusion. We argue firstly, that our current discord over policy details has its origin in the (celebrated) negotiated transition. We hold that the vote count of an 85% majority in the Constituent Assembly in 1996 obscured the reality that the Constitution meant different things to different negotiators. The result was that South Africa, from the very start of the democratic era, lacked a national consensus on how to go about consolidating democracy. We keep on failing to build a proper roof over our democracy because the constitutional foundations are weak.
South Africa Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy
Author | : Doctor Thiven Reddy |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781783602254 |
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In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over various popular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa's post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that sheds light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa.
South Africa Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy
Author | : Thiven Reddy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 1868149625 |
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"In South Africa, two unmistakable features describe post-Apartheid politics. The first is the formal framework of liberal democracy, including regular elections, multiple political parties and a range of progressive social rights. The second is the politics of the 'extraordinary', which includes a political discourse that relies on threats and the use of violence, the crude re-racialization of numerous conflicts, and protests over various popular grievances. In this highly original work, Thiven Reddy shows how conventional approaches to understanding democratization have failed to capture the complexities of South Africa's post-Apartheid transition. Rather, as a product of imperial expansion, the South African state, capitalism and citizen identities have been uniquely shaped by a particular mode of domination, namely settler colonialism. South Africa, Settler Colonialism and the Failures of Liberal Democracy is an important work that shed light on the nature of modernity, democracy and the complex politics of contemporary South Africa."--Back cover.
Democracy Liberalism and War
Author | : Tarak Barkawi,Mark Laffey |
Publsiher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1555879551 |
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Commencing with Susan Sontag's line that "the only worthwhile answers are those that blow up the questions," ten contributions by UK and US academics critique the "democratic peace" (DP) prescription for inter-state peace of "just add liberal democracy." Contextualizing the DP literature historically and internationally, they call for reassessment of the complex inter-relationships among democracy, liberalism, and war in the global revolution; provide a table summarizing war and democracy by world order periods; and identify directions for future research. Based on US workshops in 1998 and 2000. Barkawi and Laffey are lecturers in international relations, the former at the U. of Wales, Aberystwyth and the latter at the U. of London.--
The Condition of Democracy
Author | : Jürgen Mackert,Hannah Wolf,Bryan S. Turner |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2021-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781000401936 |
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Classical liberal democratic theory has provided crucial ideas for a still dominant and hegemonic discourse that rests on ideological conceptions of freedom, equality, peacefulness, inclusive democratic participation, and tolerance. While this may have held some truth for citizens in Western liberal-capitalist societies, such liberal ideals have never been realized in colonial, postcolonial and settler colonial contexts. Liberal democracies are not simply forms of rule in domestic national contexts but also geo-political actors. As such, they have been the drivers of processes of global oppression, colonizing and occupying countries and people, appropriating indigenous land, annihilating people with eliminatory politics right up to genocides. There can be no doubt that the West – with its civilizational Judeo-Christian idea and divine mission ‘to subdue the world’ – has destroyed other civilizations, countries, trading systems, and traditional ways of life and is responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of human beings in the course of colonizing the world from its Empires of trade through colonialism to settler colonialism and today’s politics of regime change. The book discusses the settler colonial regime that Israel has established in Palestine while still claiming to be a democracy. It discusses the failures of liberal democracy to overcome the structural and racist inequalities in post-Apartheid South Africa, and it presents hopeful outlooks on new ideas and forms of democracy in social movements in the MENA region.
Security and Democracy in Southern Africa
Author | : Gavin Cawthra,André Du Pisani,Abillah H. Omari |
Publsiher | : IDRC |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781868144532 |
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Southern Africa has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious security co-operation initiatives, seeking to roll out the principles of the United Nations at regional levels. This book examines the triangular relationship between democratisation, the character of democracy and its deficits, and national security practices and perceptions of eleven southern African states. It explores what impact these processes and practices have had on the collaborative security project in the region. Based on national studies conducted by African academics and security practitioners over three years, it includes an examination of the way security is conceived and managed, as well as a comparative analysis of regional security co-operation in the developing world.
South Africa s Transition to Democracy
Author | : Sandy Shaw |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055881893 |
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The author points out that this book is not an academic study of South Africa and Africa, but a focus on the psycho-political dimension of the new South Africa, asking whether it will work and highlighting positives and strengths that can be made to work.