Alexander Madanha Rusero
Biographic Data
| ID | 6873735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Madanha Rusero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander Madanha |
| FAMILY NAME | Rusero |
| SIGNATURE | RUSERO A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5700-8711 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Developmental Integration and Industrialisation in Southern Africa
A corpus of literature emphasises the need for industrialisation and integration if states belonging to regional blocs aspire to prosper economically, politically, socially, technologically and culturally. In Southern Africa, gains have been made mainly in political cooperation and solidarity but remain desperately underdeveloped regarding regional integration. Yet, current realities made evident through the advent of Covid 19 pandemic, the ongoi…
Zanu–PF’s Management of Zimbabwe’s Foreign Policy Within Sadc and Political Survival
In this article, I argue that between 2000 and 2017 the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) looked to foreign policy for political survival.Zimbabwe's foreign policy became a convenient tool to shield ZANU-PF when its lifeline had come to an end.The new millennium witnessed an incipient decline in ZANU-PF's support posing stern challenges to the continued sustainability of its authoritarianism.The socio-economic and p…
Regionalism and the fight against terrorism in southern Africa
Post-independence Africa has often depicted Southern Africa as a formidable region spared by the calamities of Islamic insurgencies and terrorism. However, unfolding events in the last five years have demonstrated the limitation of SADC to terrorism exceptionalism. A combination of relatively weak states perpetuating poor regionalism, ethnic and religious diversity, poverty and the existence of the ‘ungoverned space’ are possible explanations in …
Worth the gamble? Access to information, risks and ethical dilemmas in undertaking research in authoritarian regimes
Undertaking ethnographic or phenomenological inquiry under a hovering cloud of dictatorship can often be a mammoth, some might even say life-risking, venture. In such circumstances, researchers are confronted with ethical dilemmas: the need to strike a balance between accessing credible first-hand information and playing it safe. It is against this background that this paper traces the challenges confronting researchers planning to conduct fieldw…
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Worth the gamble? Access to information, risks and ethical dilemmas in undertaking research in authoritarian regimes
Undertaking ethnographic or phenomenological inquiry under a hovering cloud of dictatorship can often be a mammoth, some might even say life-risking, venture. In such circumstances, researchers are confronted with ethical dilemmas: the need to strike a balance between accessing credible first-hand information and playing it safe. It is against this background that this paper traces the challenges confronting researchers planning to conduct fieldw…
Regionalism and the fight against terrorism in southern Africa
Post-independence Africa has often depicted Southern Africa as a formidable region spared by the calamities of Islamic insurgencies and terrorism. However, unfolding events in the last five years have demonstrated the limitation of SADC to terrorism exceptionalism. A combination of relatively weak states perpetuating poor regionalism, ethnic and religious diversity, poverty and the existence of the ‘ungoverned space’ are possible explanations in …
Developmental Integration and Industrialisation in Southern Africa
A corpus of literature emphasises the need for industrialisation and integration if states belonging to regional blocs aspire to prosper economically, politically, socially, technologically and culturally. In Southern Africa, gains have been made mainly in political cooperation and solidarity but remain desperately underdeveloped regarding regional integration. Yet, current realities made evident through the advent of Covid 19 pandemic, the ongoi…
Zanu–PF’s Management of Zimbabwe’s Foreign Policy Within Sadc and Political Survival
In this article, I argue that between 2000 and 2017 the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) looked to foreign policy for political survival.Zimbabwe's foreign policy became a convenient tool to shield ZANU-PF when its lifeline had come to an end.The new millennium witnessed an incipient decline in ZANU-PF's support posing stern challenges to the continued sustainability of its authoritarianism.The socio-economic and p…
Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work)