Ian Liebenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 159679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Liebenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Liebenberg |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBENBERG I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0351-9476 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Ukraine
The author looks into possible pathways to an international resolution of the conflict in the Ukraine. The current conflict in the Ukraine should be seen in the context of developments since the 1054 and the 1400s before the Treaty of Westphalia in the Western calendar. The current historical memory and collective consciousness of the Russians experienced over many years, can be found in the numerous betrayals from the West over a long time. Betr…
Revolutionary Ideals, Mass Action, Concrete Realities, and Transition to Democracy
This exploratory contribution presents but one angle of the transfer of power in South Africa following the banning of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) in South Africa played a short-lived but important role in political mobilisation before the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy through drawn-out negotiations (1991–1994). The MDM may be seen …
Defence Diplomacy and National Security Strategy
CITATION: Liebenberg, I., Kruijt, D. & Paranjpe, S. (eds) 2020. Defence diplomacy & national security strategy : views from the global south. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480556.
Into the future
Militaries need natural areas for offensive and defensive combat-readiness programmes. Here soldiers, war machinery and munitions are employed to prepare forces to execute warfighting tactics. Integration of environmental considerations into military activities is a growing global challenge. This study is based on a qualitative approach underpinned by an extensive literature review. The potential for the contribution of the military to a sensitiv…
The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre
Most publications on the South African Border War suggest that the South African Defence Force (SADF) attack on Cassinga (Operation Reindeer) in Angola was a highly successful airborne operation ag
Food security, wheat production and policy in South Africa
The traditional concept of security has broadened over the past decades. Food security in South Africa is an imperative for human and non-human survival. In the contemporary political economy, there is a real nexus between globalisation, exploitation, the state, scarcity of resources, the market, peoples' need to feel secure, notions of state responsibility and food production. Political economy and human security in theoretical debates and face-…
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
(Trans-) grense, talighede, boeken bloedrefleksies
This contribution surveys recent works on the Border War /Angolan War (1960–1990). It contrasts writings by political theorists, media analysts and literary scholars with works written by soldiers who fought in the war and recollections by embedded journalists. The article’s main focus is on Gary Baines and Peter Vale’s collection of essays entitled Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa’s Late Cold War Conflicts (Unisa Press,…
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
Penetrating global consciousness
War chariots and armoured beasts of war played a major role in wars and influenced the outcomes of battles. The industrial era and age of total war saw new transmutations of this tool of war. When the first tanks rolled out at the battle of the Somme in September 1916, and a year later, an entire tank corps at Cambrai, a mobile tool of war was born that would weave itself deeply into battle space and global social consciousness, in fact humanity …
At Thy Call We did not Falter
Beyond the Border War
With a Bullet
(2011). 19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola. African Historical Review: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 122-126
Obituary
Viewing 'the other' over a hundred and a score more years
Whether novel is history or history is novel, is a tantalising point. 'The novel is no longer a work, a thing to make las t, to connect the pas t with the future but (only) one current event among many, a ges ture with no tomorrow' Kundera (1988:19). One does not have to agree with Kundera to find that social sciences , as his toriography holds a s tory, a human narrative to be shared when focused on a case or cases. In this case, relations betwe…
Loyal Service and Yet "Demobbed"-Demobilization and the Economic Reintegration of South Africa's Demobilized Military Personnel
This article examines the social reintegration of demobilized members of the armed forces into South African society within the context of limited government resources and a lack of planning for such reintegration. This paper suggests a number of innovative ways in which both government and private enterprise can contribute toward the social reintegration of demobilized members of the armed forces without spending too much. One of the main recomm…
Images
When history speaks through bloodshed for too long, through unashamed violence and, ideological abuse, when submission is the line of last resistance, when man has no respect for man, the individual, the different, when authority appropriates all powers, even that of life and death, when (brute) force supplants the rational and the reasonable, then the solitary protester, the impotent bystander has no choice but to rise up and, despite it all, as…
The African Renaissance
“From Somalia to Angola to the streets of Hillbrow, Africa is on the moue creating its own models. It is this Africa that Clinton and his policy-makers should be looking at and seeking to understand, rather than condemning the continent to being a deoiant example of a Western model whose only hope lies in falling victim to globalisation.”
Pathway to Democracy? The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process
Such countries have been typically under authoritarian rule and experienced prolonged human rights abuses. They have decided on a moral basis to come to terms with their history of oppression in a way that would allow for public admission (or at least description) of the conditions that led to the excessive and systematic abuse of human rights. TRCs distinguish themselves from various other pathways to deal with systematic human rights abuses
Public Attitudes Regarding Women in the Security Forces and Language Usage Inthesandf
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
The Integration of the Military in Post-liberation South Africa
South Africa, following its protracted negotiation process before the adoption of the Interim Constitution (1994), embarked on the integration of its former adversarial military forces. The process was to continue under the new Constitution as adopted in 1996 (Act 108 of 1996). The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was to consist of the South African Defence Force (SADF), the (semi) conventional military force of the Apartheid Regime, …
Changing political styles in South Africa
Book notes/Boeknotas
RACE RELATIONS SURVEY. 1987/88. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. Index. Pp. 991. Alan R. Ball. 1987. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM. London: Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 268. Johann Mouton (red.) 1986. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER/SOSIALE WETENSKAP, MAATSKAPPY EN MAG. Pretoria: RGN. Pp. 144. Tzippi Hoffman en Alan Fischer. 1989. THE JEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT FUTURE? Johannesburg: Southern …
Obtaining a Print from a Mummified Finger
African Police, has for the last 17 years been a member of the staff of the South African Criminal Bureau, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, and founded and heads its Modus Operandi Section.In 1948 he was a member of a team of 10 South African Policemen who were sent to England and Scotland to study British police methods
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
Public Attitudes Regarding Women in the Security Forces and Language Usage Inthesandf
Loyal Service and Yet "Demobbed"-Demobilization and the Economic Reintegration of South Africa's Demobilized Military Personnel
This article examines the social reintegration of demobilized members of the armed forces into South African society within the context of limited government resources and a lack of planning for such reintegration. This paper suggests a number of innovative ways in which both government and private enterprise can contribute toward the social reintegration of demobilized members of the armed forces without spending too much. One of the main recomm…
The African Renaissance
“From Somalia to Angola to the streets of Hillbrow, Africa is on the moue creating its own models. It is this Africa that Clinton and his policy-makers should be looking at and seeking to understand, rather than condemning the continent to being a deoiant example of a Western model whose only hope lies in falling victim to globalisation.”
With a Bullet
(2011). 19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola. African Historical Review: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 122-126
Pathway to Democracy? The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process
Such countries have been typically under authoritarian rule and experienced prolonged human rights abuses. They have decided on a moral basis to come to terms with their history of oppression in a way that would allow for public admission (or at least description) of the conditions that led to the excessive and systematic abuse of human rights. TRCs distinguish themselves from various other pathways to deal with systematic human rights abuses
The Integration of the Military in Post-liberation South Africa
South Africa, following its protracted negotiation process before the adoption of the Interim Constitution (1994), embarked on the integration of its former adversarial military forces. The process was to continue under the new Constitution as adopted in 1996 (Act 108 of 1996). The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was to consist of the South African Defence Force (SADF), the (semi) conventional military force of the Apartheid Regime, …
Obtaining a Print from a Mummified Finger
African Police, has for the last 17 years been a member of the staff of the South African Criminal Bureau, Pretoria, Union of South Africa, and founded and heads its Modus Operandi Section.In 1948 he was a member of a team of 10 South African Policemen who were sent to England and Scotland to study British police methods
Book notes/Boeknotas
RACE RELATIONS SURVEY. 1987/88. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. Index. Pp. 991. Alan R. Ball. 1987. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM. London: Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 268. Johann Mouton (red.) 1986. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER/SOSIALE WETENSKAP, MAATSKAPPY EN MAG. Pretoria: RGN. Pp. 144. Tzippi Hoffman en Alan Fischer. 1989. THE JEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT FUTURE? Johannesburg: Southern …
Changing political styles in South Africa
Public Attitudes Regarding Women in the Security Forces and Language Usage Inthesandf
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
The Integration of the Military in Post-liberation South Africa
South Africa, following its protracted negotiation process before the adoption of the Interim Constitution (1994), embarked on the integration of its former adversarial military forces. The process was to continue under the new Constitution as adopted in 1996 (Act 108 of 1996). The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was to consist of the South African Defence Force (SADF), the (semi) conventional military force of the Apartheid Regime, …
The African Renaissance
“From Somalia to Angola to the streets of Hillbrow, Africa is on the moue creating its own models. It is this Africa that Clinton and his policy-makers should be looking at and seeking to understand, rather than condemning the continent to being a deoiant example of a Western model whose only hope lies in falling victim to globalisation.”
Pathway to Democracy? The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process
Such countries have been typically under authoritarian rule and experienced prolonged human rights abuses. They have decided on a moral basis to come to terms with their history of oppression in a way that would allow for public admission (or at least description) of the conditions that led to the excessive and systematic abuse of human rights. TRCs distinguish themselves from various other pathways to deal with systematic human rights abuses
Images
When history speaks through bloodshed for too long, through unashamed violence and, ideological abuse, when submission is the line of last resistance, when man has no respect for man, the individual, the different, when authority appropriates all powers, even that of life and death, when (brute) force supplants the rational and the reasonable, then the solitary protester, the impotent bystander has no choice but to rise up and, despite it all, as…
Loyal Service and Yet "Demobbed"-Demobilization and the Economic Reintegration of South Africa's Demobilized Military Personnel
This article examines the social reintegration of demobilized members of the armed forces into South African society within the context of limited government resources and a lack of planning for such reintegration. This paper suggests a number of innovative ways in which both government and private enterprise can contribute toward the social reintegration of demobilized members of the armed forces without spending too much. One of the main recomm…
Obituary
Viewing 'the other' over a hundred and a score more years
Whether novel is history or history is novel, is a tantalising point. 'The novel is no longer a work, a thing to make las t, to connect the pas t with the future but (only) one current event among many, a ges ture with no tomorrow' Kundera (1988:19). One does not have to agree with Kundera to find that social sciences , as his toriography holds a s tory, a human narrative to be shared when focused on a case or cases. In this case, relations betwe…
At Thy Call We did not Falter
Beyond the Border War
With a Bullet
(2011). 19 with a Bullet: A South African Paratrooper in Angola. African Historical Review: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 122-126
Penetrating global consciousness
War chariots and armoured beasts of war played a major role in wars and influenced the outcomes of battles. The industrial era and age of total war saw new transmutations of this tool of war. When the first tanks rolled out at the battle of the Somme in September 1916, and a year later, an entire tank corps at Cambrai, a mobile tool of war was born that would weave itself deeply into battle space and global social consciousness, in fact humanity …
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
(Trans-) grense, talighede, boeken bloedrefleksies
This contribution surveys recent works on the Border War /Angolan War (1960–1990). It contrasts writings by political theorists, media analysts and literary scholars with works written by soldiers who fought in the war and recollections by embedded journalists. The article’s main focus is on Gary Baines and Peter Vale’s collection of essays entitled Beyond the Border War: New Perspectives on Southern Africa’s Late Cold War Conflicts (Unisa Press,…
Consolidation of Democracy in Africa
The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre
Most publications on the South African Border War suggest that the South African Defence Force (SADF) attack on Cassinga (Operation Reindeer) in Angola was a highly successful airborne operation ag
Food security, wheat production and policy in South Africa
The traditional concept of security has broadened over the past decades. Food security in South Africa is an imperative for human and non-human survival. In the contemporary political economy, there is a real nexus between globalisation, exploitation, the state, scarcity of resources, the market, peoples' need to feel secure, notions of state responsibility and food production. Political economy and human security in theoretical debates and face-…
Into the future
Militaries need natural areas for offensive and defensive combat-readiness programmes. Here soldiers, war machinery and munitions are employed to prepare forces to execute warfighting tactics. Integration of environmental considerations into military activities is a growing global challenge. This study is based on a qualitative approach underpinned by an extensive literature review. The potential for the contribution of the military to a sensitiv…
Defence Diplomacy and National Security Strategy
CITATION: Liebenberg, I., Kruijt, D. & Paranjpe, S. (eds) 2020. Defence diplomacy & national security strategy : views from the global south. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480556.
Revolutionary Ideals, Mass Action, Concrete Realities, and Transition to Democracy
This exploratory contribution presents but one angle of the transfer of power in South Africa following the banning of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) in South Africa played a short-lived but important role in political mobilisation before the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy through drawn-out negotiations (1991–1994). The MDM may be seen …
The Ukraine
The author looks into possible pathways to an international resolution of the conflict in the Ukraine. The current conflict in the Ukraine should be seen in the context of developments since the 1054 and the 1400s before the Treaty of Westphalia in the Western calendar. The current historical memory and collective consciousness of the Russians experienced over many years, can be found in the numerous betrayals from the West over a long time. Betr…
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