Maxi Schoeman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3775949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxi Schoeman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxi |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoeman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOEMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5413-4042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Being Africa's BRIC(S)
This article explores the conduct of South Africa during its years of being Africa's only BRIC(S), until the BRICS Summit of 2023 which saw two other African states join the group. The transformation in South African foreign policy during the BRICS years owes much to its reading of the changing international system, one in which the declining West was being supplanted by emerging powers led by China's expanding economy, astute diplomacy and moder…
Group Hegemonic Leadership as an Analytical Framework for Understanding Regional Hegemony in Africa
This paper revisits the literature on regional power-hood and its application to Africa with a view to answering two key questions: one, whether we can talk of regional hegemons in the continent in real terms, and two, whether group hegemonic leadership better explains regional hegemonic behavior in Africa. It uses Sandra Destradi conceptual framework and Miriam Prys’ typology of regional power-hood to answer these questions, with South Africa an…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, global economic governance emerged as one of the most salient issues on the international agenda. The premier international alliance aimed at glo
South Africa as an emerging power
South Africa proudly wears the label ‘emerging power’, with its membership of the BRICS and G20 probably the most visible signs of this conferred status. This paper explores the concept of the emerging powers within the context of current global power shifts and locates South Africa within this group. It discusses the criteria for and characteristics of emerging powers, and then turns to some of the constraints and challenges faced by these state…
South Africa’s symbolic hegemony in Africa
Tribute to Prof. Maríe Muller
South Africa in the company of giants
South Africa, the continental economic giant and self-appointed spokesman for African development, is finding its distinctive national voice. Emboldened by the invitation to join the BRICS grouping, its membership of the G20 and a second term on the UN Security Council, Pretoria is beginning to capitalize on the decade of continental and global activism undertaken by Thabo Mbeki to assume a position of leadership. Gone is the defensive posturing …
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture
MT Speckman, A Biblical Vision for Africa’s Development?, Pietermaritzburg
Southern African Development Community as Regional Peacekeeper
This article pays attention to the ability of Southern African Development Community as a subregional organization to provide peace and security within and between its members, using the conflicts and interventions in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies. It pays particular attention to the differences between official versions of involvement and operational experiences and to whose security is protected—that of states…
South Africa as an emerging middle power
(2000). South Africa as an emerging middle power. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 47-58
Africa and the world
Celebrating Westphalia's 350th birthday
This article celebrates the 350th anniversary of the peace of Westphalia, by examining the agreement's legacy for the states of Southern Africa. Conflicting diagnosis of the ‘state of the state’ abound, prompted amongst other things by the weakness of African and Southern African states and by the impact of globalisation on the region. The article begins with a re‐examination of the Westphalian notion of the state, the development of the colonial…
South Africa as an emerging middle power
(2000). South Africa as an emerging middle power. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 47-58
South Africa’s symbolic hegemony in Africa
South Africa as an emerging power
South Africa proudly wears the label ‘emerging power’, with its membership of the BRICS and G20 probably the most visible signs of this conferred status. This paper explores the concept of the emerging powers within the context of current global power shifts and locates South Africa within this group. It discusses the criteria for and characteristics of emerging powers, and then turns to some of the constraints and challenges faced by these state…
South Africa in the company of giants
South Africa, the continental economic giant and self-appointed spokesman for African development, is finding its distinctive national voice. Emboldened by the invitation to join the BRICS grouping, its membership of the G20 and a second term on the UN Security Council, Pretoria is beginning to capitalize on the decade of continental and global activism undertaken by Thabo Mbeki to assume a position of leadership. Gone is the defensive posturing …
Southern African Development Community as Regional Peacekeeper
This article pays attention to the ability of Southern African Development Community as a subregional organization to provide peace and security within and between its members, using the conflicts and interventions in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies. It pays particular attention to the differences between official versions of involvement and operational experiences and to whose security is protected—that of states…
Tribute to Prof. Maríe Muller
Celebrating Westphalia's 350th birthday
This article celebrates the 350th anniversary of the peace of Westphalia, by examining the agreement's legacy for the states of Southern Africa. Conflicting diagnosis of the ‘state of the state’ abound, prompted amongst other things by the weakness of African and Southern African states and by the impact of globalisation on the region. The article begins with a re‐examination of the Westphalian notion of the state, the development of the colonial…
South Africa as an emerging middle power
(2000). South Africa as an emerging middle power. African Security Review: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 47-58
Africa and the world
MT Speckman, A Biblical Vision for Africa’s Development?, Pietermaritzburg
Southern African Development Community as Regional Peacekeeper
This article pays attention to the ability of Southern African Development Community as a subregional organization to provide peace and security within and between its members, using the conflicts and interventions in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies. It pays particular attention to the differences between official versions of involvement and operational experiences and to whose security is protected—that of states…
Africa's New Peace and Security Architecture
Tribute to Prof. Maríe Muller
South Africa in the company of giants
South Africa, the continental economic giant and self-appointed spokesman for African development, is finding its distinctive national voice. Emboldened by the invitation to join the BRICS grouping, its membership of the G20 and a second term on the UN Security Council, Pretoria is beginning to capitalize on the decade of continental and global activism undertaken by Thabo Mbeki to assume a position of leadership. Gone is the defensive posturing …
South Africa’s symbolic hegemony in Africa
Introduction to the Special Issue
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, global economic governance emerged as one of the most salient issues on the international agenda. The premier international alliance aimed at glo
South Africa as an emerging power
South Africa proudly wears the label ‘emerging power’, with its membership of the BRICS and G20 probably the most visible signs of this conferred status. This paper explores the concept of the emerging powers within the context of current global power shifts and locates South Africa within this group. It discusses the criteria for and characteristics of emerging powers, and then turns to some of the constraints and challenges faced by these state…
Group Hegemonic Leadership as an Analytical Framework for Understanding Regional Hegemony in Africa
This paper revisits the literature on regional power-hood and its application to Africa with a view to answering two key questions: one, whether we can talk of regional hegemons in the continent in real terms, and two, whether group hegemonic leadership better explains regional hegemonic behavior in Africa. It uses Sandra Destradi conceptual framework and Miriam Prys’ typology of regional power-hood to answer these questions, with South Africa an…
Being Africa's BRIC(S)
This article explores the conduct of South Africa during its years of being Africa's only BRIC(S), until the BRICS Summit of 2023 which saw two other African states join the group. The transformation in South African foreign policy during the BRICS years owes much to its reading of the changing international system, one in which the declining West was being supplanted by emerging powers led by China's expanding economy, astute diplomacy and moder…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Development economics (9 works) · International Development and Aid (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works)