South African Journal of International Affairs

Since 1993, SAJIA has offered original and review articles from varied sources, under the auspices of the award-winning South African Institute of International Affairs.  It is currently published four times annually, by Routledge of Taylor & Francis.

The SAJIA  International Editorial Advisory Board includes Amitav Acharya, Faten Aggad-Clerx, Chris Alden, Daniel Bach, Oladiran Bello, Fantu Cheru, John Dugard, Mervyn Frost, Jorge Heine, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari, Thierry de Montbrial, Laurie Nathan, Maxi Schoeman, André de Mello e Souza, John Stremlau, Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk and Alex Vines.

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SAJIA 31.2 Explores African Early Warning Systems and Adaptive Alignment in Peace Processes

23 Sep 2024

SAJIA Volume 31.2 is now available on the Taylor & Francis website.  The issue includes articles on various topics, such as African early warning systems, adaptive alignment in peace processes and the prospects and challenges of economic integration among the BRICS. Indicative of the importance of the BRICS in international affairs, there are also articles focused on India’s engagement with Africa, as well as the Russian-Chinese ‘Partnership’ in Africa, noting the different emphases of these two emerging powers vis-á-vis the continent and how their strategies in fact place limits on that declared partnership. One article analyses South Africa’s voting at the UN on international human rights-related resolutions, especially with regard to China’s attempts to curtail those human rights through amendments to UN resolutions.  The issue also includes a review essay, titled ‘Understanding the rise of China through its leaders’ and three book reviews.


Contents

The Limits of the “No Limits” Russian-Chinese Partnership: The Case of Africa
Benjamin Kurylo

BRICS economic integration: Prospects and challenges
Marida Nach and Ncwadi Ronney

High expectations: Civil society participation in conflict early warning and response systems of the AU, ECOWAS and IGAD
Michael Aeby

A willing accomplice? South Africa’s response to China’s attack on international human rights
Eduard Jordaan

Confronting recurring violence in the DRC and Mali: An adaptive alignment approach in peace processes
Hind Zaamoun and Houyame Hakmi

New Delhi’s engagement with Africa: Seeking geopolitical alignment
Shubrajeet Konwer

Review Essay

Understanding the rise of China through its leaders by Mandira Bagwandeen

Book Reviews

How Migration Really Works by Hein de Haas
Reviewed by Alan Hirsch

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary African Migration by Daniel Makina and Dominic Pasura (eds.)
Reviewed by Alan Hirsch

Settling Nature: The Conservation regime in Palestine-Israel by Irus Braverman
Reviewed by Steven Robins

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