International relations are what a government does when nobodys looking. While this may well once have been true, the conduct of international relations in South Africa and elsewhere has come under increasing scrutiny by the public. This is partially the result of specialist expertise around the formal study of international relations and the making of foreign policy, enhanced by the development of International Relations as a separate academic field. Like the growth of institutes of inter...

A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s political discourse in the post-Zuma presidency era. What is state capture and how does it ma...

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 Relations is argued to have been established as a p...

This book questions the accepted origins of the field of International Relations (IR). Commonly understood to have emerged from the horrors of WW1 with the goal of bringing about world peace, the authors argue that on the contrary, IR came from a somewhat less noble tradition – that of the Round Table.The Round Table were a network of imperialists emerging in the late 1800s across five key British imperial societies: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and India. Their aim...

Questo volume presenta un modello pratico maturato all’interno di Deloitte (una tra le più grandi realtà nei servizi professionali alle imprese) per quantificare il valore degli interventi sociali. Vengono analizzati sia gli effetti finanziari che gli effetti sul welfare dei cittadini, che non possono essere studiati direttamente nei rendiconti. NOTA DELL'EDITORE: la versione PDF di questo ebook è visualizzabile su Pc, Mac e tablet; tutte le altre versioni sono ottimizzate per la lettura s...

"A great book about a small railway with a lot of history that has managed to adapt . . . and become a tourist attraction without losing its charm." —Unos Cuantos Trenes (A Few Trains)Built to carry minerals from mines in the Rheidol valley, the 2ft gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway found its niche carrying tourists to the tourist attraction at Devil's Bridge, 12 miles inland from the Cardigan coast resort of Aberystwyth. Taken over by the Cambrian Railways and then the...

As the Internet revolution reshapes the world, its usage across the globe reveals a glaring digital divide between developed and developing nations. This paper explores why the Stratification model of Internet diffusion exists, highlighting critical obstacles like prohibitive costs, inadequate infrastructure, language barriers, low education levels, and a lack of relevant content for underserved populations. Using diffusion theory, the study emphasises the Internet's unique challenges comp...

How would you react if one day you found a genuine ghost sitting in your living room - declaring****that from now on he's your new housemate?Meet Sir Henry, the bitter, mischievous ghost of Urquhart Castle in Scotland. Cursed by his own son to haunt his castle until he saves a girl's life, he finally decides to leave his dilapidated, abandoned home and 'emigrate' to Switzerland, where he transforms himself into the genial and funny guardian spirit of his n...

"Controverso, de Max Chafkin, é muito mais do que uma biografia consistentemente chocante de Peter Thiel, o investidor mais importante em tecnologia e um dos principais apoiadores da presidência de Donald Trump. É também uma história perturbadora do Vale do Silício que fará você reconsiderar as bases ideológicas do incansável mecanismo de destruição criativa dos Estados Unidos." — Brad Stone, autor de A Loja de Tudo e Amazon Unbound Em Controverso, Max Chafkin nos leva a uma fascinante jor...

A brilliant, fiercely funny novel that ponders the eternal question: is it better to laugh or cry?Joe Sandwich is a clown. Not literally, but what else do you call an eleven-year-old who goes to church to confess his good deeds: "I did my homework without being told"? A stockbroker who gets seasick watching the market tape and claims the gross national product is "deodorants"? A father who mows curse words into his lawn and names his son Hamilton because, well, who ...

“While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold… I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices, as but few civilized persons have ever been called to endure.”In June of 1871, navigator George E. Tyson and the Polaris sailed forth from New York to pursue an American dream—to be the first expedition to explore the icy waters of the North Pole. Led by C...

In 2013 and in 2014 respectively, the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) and Politikon (the South African Journal of Political Studies) celebrate their 40th anniversary. Also, in April 2014 South Africa celebrates twenty years since the advent of the post-Apartheid democracy, and the birth of the ‘rainbow nation’. This book provides a timely account of the birth and evolution of South African politics over the past four decades, but also of the study of Politic...