Peter Vales
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 83218 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Vales |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Vales |
| FIRMA | VALES P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0805-9325 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Can African Alive Corridors Transform the Continent? A Thought Experiment
Never forget your ancestors
This article reimagines Postcolonial Security Studies (PSS) through the allegory of ancestors. It examines two generations of responses to coloniality in Security Studies – Third World Security Studies and Decolonial Security Studies – highlighting their fundamental contribution to the formation and evolution of PSS, while noting their partial disconnection from the ideas and traditions of the South. These often-ignored contributions could offer …
Maxi Schoeman – An Appreciation
Beilharz in South Africa - jottings
Navigating Colonial Orders
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai’i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; tim…
The Guicciardini Prize Forum
The Guicciardini Prize Forum: reply to comments." Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 34(6), pp. 895–896
Out in the middle’. Humanities, interdisciplinary and the post-graduate puzzle
Wiljan van den Akker is a university professor, a respected academic administrator, and a published poet and writer. From a base at the Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, his three-decade long career spans three continents and includes one-on-one associations with Berkeley, UCLA and Oxford. Currently, he is the Vice-Rector for Research at Utrecht but retains the title he was awarded in 2003, Distinguished Professor of Modern Poetry. In early…
The Humanities And The University
In this interview Craig Calhoun talks about universities, the Humanities and his own research. Universities reinvent themselves in the face of societal and technological change. In the midst of this change, however, universities are charged with maintaining old ideals, with informing the public and creating opportunities for human development. The Humanities often bemoan these changes but they are ideally positioned to contribute to the changing …
Imperial Mission, ‘Scientific’ Method
This article offers an alternative account of the origins of academic IR to the conventional Aberystwyth-centred one. Informed by a close reading of the archive, our narrative proposes that the ideas and method of what was to become IR were first developed in South Africa. Here, we suggest how the creation of a racially-ordered state served as a template for the British Commonwealth and later the World State. We draw further on the British domini…
Johannesburg
This journal article reflects on the conceptualization of a three-day meeting convened to open space for thinking differently about the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and to begin to explore the possibility of working beyond the constraints of standard urban studies and regimes of spatial planning through which the city is conventionally viewed and researched. The incentive underpinning the 2015 Performative Urbanisms workshop was the desire…
A Better Life for All’
Prefigurative politics is a resurgent concept, seeking to explain a diverse array of social phenomena, from Occupy Wall Street to car-sharing cooperatives. The driving force behind these activities is said to be a combination of dashed hopes for a better post-Cold War world and the widespread negative social impacts of neoliberal globalization. Although located in the Global South, Southern Africa is not immune to these pressures and processes. I…
The struggles over African languages
In this interview, African Language expert Pam Maseko speaks of her own background and her first encounter with culture outside of her mother tongue, isiXhosa. A statistical breakdown of South African languages is provided as background. She discusses Western (originally missionary) codification of African languages and suggests that this approach to understanding of, and teaching in, African Languages continued during apartheid South Africa. The…
State of urgency
William Faulkner’s appalled recognition – ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ – sets the scene for many of the animating concerns of this Special Issue. This is focused on work in and debates around the humanities in South Africa, where many artists and academics appear to be wrestling with a particularly strong version of Faulkner’s dilemma. For just over 20 years after the formal dismantling of apartheid embodied in the adoption of So…
Inclusion and Exclusion
“ Physician, Heal Thyself ” Luke 4:23 The theme of this sixty-seventh Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), “Global IR and Regional Worlds: A New Agenda for International Studies,” promises to open the field to a double-headed question that points at its very heart. Here is the question, “Who or what is IR for?” Although too seldom asked in the gleaming ballrooms where the ISA faithful gather, this question is often top of th…
Unlocking social puzzles
In this wide-ranging interview, the historian Charles van Onselen discusses his recent book, Showdown at the Red Lion: The Life and Times of Jack McLoughlin, 1959-1910 against the backdrop of his previous work. He explores social formation and the consolidation of state-power in southern Africa through the empirical optic of social banditry and the role of individual outliers. The theoretical framing is drawn from historical sociology. The role o…
Out in the dark
Benjamin Cohen's disciplinary history of international political economy (IPE) begins with the premise that Africa has had little to contribute to this global discipline. Differing from this view, we argue that disciplinary histories such as Cohen's elide the relationship between the discipline and its field. It is only through the juxtaposition of knowledge, power and politics that we can arrive at a fuller historical understanding of theinterna…
John Daniel (1944–2014)—His Life and Politics
It will become plain in this tribute to the life and work of John Daniel that his was no run-of-the-mill South African academic career of the 1970s and the 1980s: so, the Bachelor degree with major
If International Relations lives on the street, what is it doing in the classroom
The argument asserts that International Relations (IR) was (and remains) constructed to serve the interests of the knowledge courts of the north. In South Africa, the discipline is an 'alien species' because the imported idea of sovereignty not only disrupted natural patterns of regional migration, but the formation of the region's first state, the Union of South Africa, divided the country's people on the grounds of race. The coming of the Union…
The Study of Politics in South Africa
This article anticipates the 50th Anniversary of Politikon, by suggesting themes that will need to be included in a comprehensive history of the development of the field in South Africa. It draws on Intellectual History, the Sociology of Knowledge and Institutional History to locate the development of the academic study of politics in South Africa and points to several proto-types of the discipline. Two major 'conventions' of Political Science ar…
Marxisms past and present
Marxism was central to the understanding of South Africa's struggle for freedom. This article provides a critical analysis of Marxist literature on South Africa since the 1970s, drawing out its relevance for contemporary analyses of the post-apartheid state and for radical politics today. It suggests that while the literature offered important insights into the character of the apartheid state, it failed to provide a critical appraisal of the sta…
Anger and adolescence
Revealing All? The Troubled Times of South Africa’s Diplomacy
This article reviews a trilogy of memoirs written by diplomats who served South Africa’s apartheid government. It explores the ‘communication’ versus ‘representative’ function of diplomacy and sets this in the context of a pariah state, as apartheid South Africa once was. It suggests that all diplomats who served under apartheid were complicit in that system. The article also looks towards the role that the idea of the international setting playe…
Radical Thinking in South Africa's Age of Retreat
This article traces the rise and fall of radical praxis in South Africa and offers a critique of the prevailing practices of former Marxists under post-apartheid conditions. Western Marxism emerged in the 1970s in South Africa and Marxist activists became deeply involved in the liberation movements. With the unravelling of apartheid, the main liberation forces made a social pact with capitalist forces and former Marxists embraced a statist projec…
Cold War in Southern Africa
Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation Edited by Sue Onslow London, Routledge (Cold War History Series), 2009, 253 pp. (hbk) 978-0-415-47420-7 Southern Africa has been viewed th
The curious career of an African modernizer
Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's second democratically elected president, was born into left-wing politics. In exile, he became the face of the African National Congress (ANC) and developed a reputation as a modernizer. He returned to the country and built relations, not with the ANC's internal allies, but with the country's business community. In 1996, as Mandela's deputy, Mbeki implemented a neo-liberal economic package, called GEAR, which alienated…
South Africa and the African Renaissance
Journal Article South Africa and the African Renaissance Get access Peter Vale, Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sipho Maseko Sipho Maseko 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 271-287, https://doi.org/10.1111/1…
The self-determination of minorities in international politics
Journal Article The self-determination of minorities in international politics Get access The self-determination of minorities in international politics. By Alexis Heraclides. London: Cass. 1991. 291pp. Index. £26.00. ISBN 0 7146 3384 4. Peter Vale Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Page 716, http…
Imperial Mission, ‘Scientific’ Method
This article offers an alternative account of the origins of academic IR to the conventional Aberystwyth-centred one. Informed by a close reading of the archive, our narrative proposes that the ideas and method of what was to become IR were first developed in South Africa. Here, we suggest how the creation of a racially-ordered state served as a template for the British Commonwealth and later the World State. We draw further on the British domini…
Migration, xenophobia and security-making in post-apartheid South Africa
This article—an edited version of Chapter 4 of my forthcoming book First Among Unequals: South African Security Discourses on Southern Africa—focuses on the ideological conceptualization, and brutal treatment, of foreign migrants in post-apartheid South Africa. Notwithstanding the sacrifices of Africa's people to the cause of South Africa's liberation or the reality that South Africa was made by migrants, foreign African migrants in 'liberated' a…
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy five years on - from pariah state to 'just another country
Former South African president Nelson Mandela was consistently used as a tool of the Pretoria government's foreign relations. Despite Mandela's moral stature there are limits to the portrayal of South Africa as something special, rather than just another country. There have been failures as well as successes and a pursuit of issues that secure international respectability rather than embody the ethos of the Rainbow Nation. The authors contrast ho…
Re-Reading Rick Turner in the New South Africa
Using the writings of the assassinated South African political philosopher Rick Turner, this article provides a critique of South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid. Influenced by both Western Marxism and utopian thinking, Turner developed a model of democratic socialism which offered a vision of a 'new South Africa'. This was countered by the ideology of the market and, later, by the force of the 'end of history' thesis. The article arg…
Conflict resolution in Africa
Journal Article Conflict resolution in Africa Get access Conflict resolution in Africa. Edited by Francis M. Dengand I. William Zartman. Washington DC: Brookings Institution. 1991. 418pp. Index. $34.95; ISBN 0 8157 1798 9. Pb.: $14.95 ; ISBN 0 8157 1797 0. Peter Vale Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1…
Out of Conflict. From War to Peace in Africa
Africa has become enveloped in an image of disaster and strife. The history of conflict management, likewise, is largely the history of failure. This book identifies lessons to be learnt from conflict management in Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, and others. It underlines the importance of a thorough understanding of the causes and dynamics of a conflict in order to find appropriate strategies of intervention
In search of the nineties
International relations in post‐apartheid South Africa
Shortly after apartheid ended, I found myself at a get‐together organized by an in‐house think‐tank associated with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In the leafy surrounds of West Susse
From Cape to Congo
Introduction - the Editors. Southern Africa's Security Challenges. Economic and Military Security - M. Baregu. Redefining Security - A. Zacarias. The Quest for Good Governance - T. Nkiwane. The Politics of Land Reform - S. Moyo and P. Matondi. Land Reform: The South African Case - G. Williams and R. Hall. AIDS as a New Security Threat - J. Ala. National And Regional Actors. Civil Society in Southern Africa - P. Molutsi. South Africa and Nigeria a…
Why Democracy is Not Enough
The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. . . . M…
Prospects for transplanting European models of regional integration to Southern Africa
This article suggests that the major obstacle to the harmonisation of policies and ultimate regional integration in the deeply divided region of southern Africa arises from a conflicting political matrix. By using the concepts of high” and “low” politics the author analyses the deep political schisms and parallel economic dependency which characterize relations between the states of the region, and concludes that conventional models for regional …
Security and Politics in South Africa
This book discuss about politics and government in South Africa with 'high-end' explanation
South Africas Transition Revisited
(2000). South Africas Transition Revisited: Globalisation as Vision and Virtue. Global Society: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 399-414
Cold War in Southern Africa
Cold War in Southern Africa: White Power, Black Liberation Edited by Sue Onslow London, Routledge (Cold War History Series), 2009, 253 pp. (hbk) 978-0-415-47420-7 Southern Africa has been viewed th
The curious career of an African modernizer
Thabo Mbeki, South Africa's second democratically elected president, was born into left-wing politics. In exile, he became the face of the African National Congress (ANC) and developed a reputation as a modernizer. He returned to the country and built relations, not with the ANC's internal allies, but with the country's business community. In 1996, as Mandela's deputy, Mbeki implemented a neo-liberal economic package, called GEAR, which alienated…
The search for Southern Africa's security
Peter Vale argues that for all the elation about negotiating a democratic South African state, there is much unfinished business to settle with the de Klerk regime. South Africa has used its regional policy to bolster apartheid and to dominate Southern Africa since the late 1970s, and for all the apparent change, the New Diplomacy since 1989 is in fact a continuation of this policy. Vale outlines ways in which to loosen South Africa's stranglehol…
South Africa
A Better Life for All’
Prefigurative politics is a resurgent concept, seeking to explain a diverse array of social phenomena, from Occupy Wall Street to car-sharing cooperatives. The driving force behind these activities is said to be a combination of dashed hopes for a better post-Cold War world and the widespread negative social impacts of neoliberal globalization. Although located in the Global South, Southern Africa is not immune to these pressures and processes. I…
The struggles over African languages
In this interview, African Language expert Pam Maseko speaks of her own background and her first encounter with culture outside of her mother tongue, isiXhosa. A statistical breakdown of South African languages is provided as background. She discusses Western (originally missionary) codification of African languages and suggests that this approach to understanding of, and teaching in, African Languages continued during apartheid South Africa. The…
The Study of Politics in South Africa
This article anticipates the 50th Anniversary of Politikon, by suggesting themes that will need to be included in a comprehensive history of the development of the field in South Africa. It draws on Intellectual History, the Sociology of Knowledge and Institutional History to locate the development of the academic study of politics in South Africa and points to several proto-types of the discipline. Two major 'conventions' of Political Science ar…
Anger and adolescence
Radical Thinking in South Africa's Age of Retreat
This article traces the rise and fall of radical praxis in South Africa and offers a critique of the prevailing practices of former Marxists under post-apartheid conditions. Western Marxism emerged in the 1970s in South Africa and Marxist activists became deeply involved in the liberation movements. With the unravelling of apartheid, the main liberation forces made a social pact with capitalist forces and former Marxists embraced a statist projec…
Lost Horizons
Politics chartered the development of the Humanities in South Africa. Under the apartheid system three separate traditions — English-speaking, Afrikaner and Homeland —co-existed, albeit uneasily, in separate institutional forms. As apartheid crumbled in the 1980s, the Humanities, by drawing the three traditions together, established a growing voice in what would follow its demise. But the Humanities were blind-sided by the rise and power of neo-l…
Africa
Prospects for transplanting European models of regional integration to Southern Africa
This article suggests that the major obstacle to the harmonisation of policies and ultimate regional integration in the deeply divided region of southern Africa arises from a conflicting political matrix. By using the concepts of high” and “low” politics the author analyses the deep political schisms and parallel economic dependency which characterize relations between the states of the region, and concludes that conventional models for regional …
South Africa
Simple‐mindedness and repression
In search of the nineties
The search for Southern Africa's security
Peter Vale argues that for all the elation about negotiating a democratic South African state, there is much unfinished business to settle with the de Klerk regime. South Africa has used its regional policy to bolster apartheid and to dominate Southern Africa since the late 1970s, and for all the apparent change, the New Diplomacy since 1989 is in fact a continuation of this policy. Vale outlines ways in which to loosen South Africa's stranglehol…
Conflict resolution in Africa
Journal Article Conflict resolution in Africa Get access Conflict resolution in Africa. Edited by Francis M. Dengand I. William Zartman. Washington DC: Brookings Institution. 1991. 418pp. Index. $34.95; ISBN 0 8157 1798 9. Pb.: $14.95 ; ISBN 0 8157 1797 0. Peter Vale Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1…
The self-determination of minorities in international politics
Journal Article The self-determination of minorities in international politics Get access The self-determination of minorities in international politics. By Alexis Heraclides. London: Cass. 1991. 291pp. Index. £26.00. ISBN 0 7146 3384 4. Peter Vale Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 4, October 1992, Page 716, http…
Crocker's choice
Chester Crocker. High Noon in Southern Africa: Making peace in a rough neighbourhood. New York: Norton, 1992, pp. 533
Regional Security in Southern Africa
Things are very different now. Apartheid has ended and there is much enthusiasm among the countries of the region for the creation of new institutions such as the recently proposed SADC Organ for Politics, Defence, Security1 to underwrite lasting peace in Southern Africa. This explains why, when Lesotho experienced a constitutional crisis in August 1994, swift action by three presidents South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Botswana's Quett Masire, and …
Margins of security
Journal Article Margins of security: minorities and international security Get access Margins of security: minorities and international security. Edited by Sam C. Nolutshungu. Rochester, NY: Rochester University Press. 1996. 302pp. Index. £42.00; ISBN 1 87882263 2. Pb.: £19.95; ISBN 1 878872 75 6. Peter Vale Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, V…
Postcolonial identities in Africa
South Africa and the African Renaissance
Journal Article South Africa and the African Renaissance Get access Peter Vale, Peter Vale 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sipho Maseko Sipho Maseko 1University of the Western Cape, South Africa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 1998, Pages 271-287, https://doi.org/10.1111/1…
Why Democracy is Not Enough
The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give to the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. . . . M…
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy five years on - from pariah state to 'just another country
Former South African president Nelson Mandela was consistently used as a tool of the Pretoria government's foreign relations. Despite Mandela's moral stature there are limits to the portrayal of South Africa as something special, rather than just another country. There have been failures as well as successes and a pursuit of issues that secure international respectability rather than embody the ethos of the Rainbow Nation. The authors contrast ho…
Out of Conflict. From War to Peace in Africa
Africa has become enveloped in an image of disaster and strife. The history of conflict management, likewise, is largely the history of failure. This book identifies lessons to be learnt from conflict management in Liberia, Rwanda, Somalia, and others. It underlines the importance of a thorough understanding of the causes and dynamics of a conflict in order to find appropriate strategies of intervention
South Africas Transition Revisited
(2000). South Africas Transition Revisited: Globalisation as Vision and Virtue. Global Society: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 399-414
The Movement, modernity and new International Relations writing in South Africa
Books reviewed in this article: Korwa Gombe Adar and Rok Ajulu, Globalization and emerging trends in African states’ foreign policymaking processes: a comparative perspective of Southern Africa. Patrick Bond, Against global apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and international finance. Greg Mills, The wired world: South Africa, foreign policy and globalization. Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen, South Africa's mult…
Sipho Maseko
Migration, xenophobia and security-making in post-apartheid South Africa
This article—an edited version of Chapter 4 of my forthcoming book First Among Unequals: South African Security Discourses on Southern Africa—focuses on the ideological conceptualization, and brutal treatment, of foreign migrants in post-apartheid South Africa. Notwithstanding the sacrifices of Africa's people to the cause of South Africa's liberation or the reality that South Africa was made by migrants, foreign African migrants in 'liberated' a…
From Cape to Congo
Introduction - the Editors. Southern Africa's Security Challenges. Economic and Military Security - M. Baregu. Redefining Security - A. Zacarias. The Quest for Good Governance - T. Nkiwane. The Politics of Land Reform - S. Moyo and P. Matondi. Land Reform: The South African Case - G. Williams and R. Hall. AIDS as a New Security Threat - J. Ala. National And Regional Actors. Civil Society in Southern Africa - P. Molutsi. South Africa and Nigeria a…
‘New Ways to Remember...’
Mainstream International Relations constructs southern Africa through the power and omnipresence of the region’s nation states. Using an interpretative opening offered to social science by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz, this article challenges this particular approach to the idea of regional community. It argues that the construction of the region’s first Westphalian state, South Africa, was an incidental occurrence contingent on a series of…
Demili ta ri sation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa
The Right Way Up? South Africa Ten Years On
International relations in post‐apartheid South Africa
Shortly after apartheid ended, I found myself at a get‐together organized by an in‐house think‐tank associated with the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In the leafy surrounds of West Susse
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