Imagining South Africa’s Foreign Investment Regulatory Regime in a Global Context
International trade and investment have been around for a long time. The quest for resources has manifested itself through trade and, as time evolved, has been realised through wars of conquest, friendship, commerce and navigation treaties, colonialism, gunboat diplomacy and, lately, the evolution of an international investment regulatory framework.
BRICS Insights Collection: BRICS and Development Finance Institutions
A new set of papers has just been released, looking at BRICS and Development Finance Institutions.
Recalibrating South Africa’s Role in Global Economic Governance: A Nigerian Perspective on Some Strategic Challenges
A Nigerian perspective on South Africa’s position in global economic governance, particularly in relation to its role in the BRICS grouping and the G-20, provides critical insights into the potential benefits of a reinvigorated Nigerian–South African partnership.
South Africa’s Foreign Policy: Tempering Dominance Through Integration
Southern Africa has always featured prominently in South Africa’s foreign policy. During apartheid, the National Party government saw fit to unleash a destructive agenda on neighbouring countries as an integral part of its strategy to quash support for the liberation movement.
Judicial Independence Under the APRM: From Rhetoric to Reality
The greatest challenges to good governance in Africa lie at the intersection of two problems: (i) low horizontal and vertical accountability, and (ii) weak constitutionalism.
Why the Opposition won in Nigeria and what to expect now?
History is likely to regard Nigeria’s just-concluded election as the defining one that finally put the country on an irreversible course of democratic maturation.
South Africa’s National Security Interests and Its Investment Attractiveness Conundrum
At the recent University of the Witwatersrand’s Mandela Institute Conference on the Private Security Industry Regulatory Act Amendment Bill, commonly known as the Security Bill, National Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa provided the keynote address. From the various presentations at the Conference, held on 19 March 2015, it became apparent that there is a disconnect between South Africa’s national security imperatives and its trade and investment policy.
The BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement and its Position in the Emerging Global Financial Architecture
In its present shape and size the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) should be regarded as symbolic and exploratory rather than as a substantive challenger to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Chinese Financed Hydropower Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
This policy brief provides an analysis of Chinese practice in financing large—over 50 megawatt (MW)—hydropower projects in Africa between 2000 and 2013.
R2P and the Protection of Civilians: South Africa’s Perspective on Conflict Resolution
This briefing provides an overview of the South African government’s position on the protection of civilians within the context of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) framework.