Vale Peter
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5445000 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vale Peter |
| PRENOMES | Vale |
| SOBRENOME | Peter |
| ASSINATURA | PETER V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3186-5931 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization
In January 1967, under the infamous military head Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, the Democratic Republic of Congo nationalized its mining industry based on anticolonial rhetoric of “economic sovereignty.” Only two years later, the same Mobutu government welcomed foreign companies and investors with open arms to the inaugural Foire Internationale de Kinshasa. Even at this crucial postcolonial moment when ideas of economic independence and self-sufficiency …
South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations
This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of the discipline of International Relations. Conventional, western histories of the discipline point to 1919 as the year of the ‘birth of the discipline’ with two seminal initiatives – setting up of the first Chair of IR at Aberystwyth and the founding of the Institute of International Relations on the side-lines of the Paris Peace Conference. From these events, International Relatio…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
Security in southern Africa
In new and challenging ways, southern Africa is faced by the choice between two geopolitical courses, characterized by distinctive understandings of the future of interstate relations and unique appreciations of the region's security problematic. The traditional policy framework of realism is based on responding to circumstances and events by rote rather than asking the difficult first-order questions—the kind of questions that create alternative…
Simple‐mindedness and repression
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 …
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…
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 in southern Africa
In new and challenging ways, southern Africa is faced by the choice between two geopolitical courses, characterized by distinctive understandings of the future of interstate relations and unique appreciations of the region's security problematic. The traditional policy framework of realism is based on responding to circumstances and events by rote rather than asking the difficult first-order questions—the kind of questions that create alternative…
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…
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 …
Simple‐mindedness and repression
Security in southern Africa
In new and challenging ways, southern Africa is faced by the choice between two geopolitical courses, characterized by distinctive understandings of the future of interstate relations and unique appreciations of the region's security problematic. The traditional policy framework of realism is based on responding to circumstances and events by rote rather than asking the difficult first-order questions—the kind of questions that create alternative…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations
This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of the discipline of International Relations. Conventional, western histories of the discipline point to 1919 as the year of the ‘birth of the discipline’ with two seminal initiatives – setting up of the first Chair of IR at Aberystwyth and the founding of the Institute of International Relations on the side-lines of the Paris Peace Conference. From these events, International Relatio…
Between Economic Nationalism and Liberalization
In January 1967, under the infamous military head Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, the Democratic Republic of Congo nationalized its mining industry based on anticolonial rhetoric of “economic sovereignty.” Only two years later, the same Mobutu government welcomed foreign companies and investors with open arms to the inaugural Foire Internationale de Kinshasa. Even at this crucial postcolonial moment when ideas of economic independence and self-sufficiency …
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