RESEARCH OUTPUT 2013

RESEARCH OUTPUT FOR OCTOBER 2015 - OCTOBER 2016

1. ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN ACCREDITED JOURNALS

• Dr Marina Magalhaes
  The challenges of an engagement between the African Union and the UN Security Council, New Contree, no/issue: 75
• Prof. Theo Neethling (with Col. Laetitia Olivier and Prof. Francois Vreӱ)
  Theoretical approaches in International Relations: The South African military as a foreign policy instrument, Scientia Militaria, vol 43, no 2
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  China’s peacekeeping contributions and the evolution of contemporary Chinese strategic considerations, Strategic Review for Southern Africa, vol 39, no 2
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  An update on South Africa’s political risk profile in 2015/16, New Contree, no/issue: 75
• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  Islam in Africa: From Sufi moderation to Islamist radicalization, Journal of Contemporary History, vol 40, no 2

2. BOOK PUBLISHED

• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  Islamic State and the Coming Global Confrontation, London: Palgrave

3. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Mr Eben Coetzee
  Trust no one? Democratic peace theory meets 007
  Regional colloquium of the South African Association of Political Studies, Vaal Triangle Campus of the North West University, 1 October 2015
• Dr Tania Coetzee
  Teaching strategy: From theory to practice
  Regional colloquium of the South African Association of Political Studies, Vaal Triangle Campus of the North West University, 1 October 2015
• Dr Tania Coetzee
  Teaching strategy: A governance approach
  2016 Conference of the SA Association of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, 31 Augustus – 2 September 2016
• Ms Bianca Naude
  States have emotions too: South African foreign policy as product of collective affect
  70th Annual Conference of the New York State Political Science Association, 22-23 April 2016
• Ms Bianca Naude
  ‘Singing the same old tune’: The politics of identity and the quest for a decolonized South African foreign policy
  2016 Conference of the SA Association of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, 31 Augustus – 2 September 2016
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  South Africa and BRIC(S): The need for a multi-identity foreign policy and economic strategy
  Annual seminar of the Southern African Centre for Collaboration on Peace and Security, Bloemfontein, 22-23 February 2016
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  China’s international peacekeeping contributions: Conversations and reflections on the evolution of Chinese involvement on the African continent
  South Western Social Science Association (International Relations chapter), Las Vegas, USA, 23-26 March 2016
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  China’s international peacekeeping contributions: Towards the end of China’s non-intervention policy?
  Asia-Pacific Conference of the International Studies Association, City University of Hong Kong, 25-27 June 2016
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  South Africa’s foreign identity and the BRICS partnership: A critical analysis
  2016 Conference of the SA Association of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, 31 August – 2 September 2016
• Prof. Theo Neethling
  Defence thinking in post-1994 South Africa with specific reference to the SA Army
  2016 SA Armour Symposium of the SA Army, South African Armour in peace and collective security in the region, 20 October 2016.
• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  Somalia’s clans and the need to go beyond the nation-state
  58th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, San Diego, USA, 21 November 2015
• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  Islamic State and the coming global confrontation
  The rise of Islamic extremism, hosted by the North-West University, Potchefstroom, 11 March 2016
• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  The particular role of religion in Islamic State
  Islamic State: Understanding the threat and its implications, hosted by the Confederation of Allied Reserve Forces of NATO and the Konrad Adenhauer Stiftung, Bonn, Germany, 2 February 2016
• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  Going beyond the state: International security in the age of Islamic State
  14th Annual International Conference on Politics, Athens Institute for Education and Research, 13 June 2016
• Prof. Hussein Solomon
  An overview of crises and conflicts in the Middle East since the Arab Spring
  2016 Limmud Conference, Johannesburg, 26 August 2016
• Prof. H. Solomon
  Current Challenges with regards to counter-terrorism in Africa
  The environmental and battlespace workhop of the SA Army, Pretoria, 20 September 2016
• Ms Alta Vermeulen
  Why African lives are deemed less newsworthy: A study of terrorism, its effects and the global perceptions thereof eaching strategy: From theory to practice
  Regional colloquium of the South African Association of Political Studies, Vaal Triangle Campus of the North West University, 1 October 2015
• Ms Alta Vermeulen
  Is it time to rethink political research? Starting with the greatest modern threat in Africa - terrorism
  2016 Conference of the SA Association of Political Studies, University of the Western Cape, 31 August – 2 September