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  • PolSci HoD delivers UP expert lecture on democracy in SA

    Posted on March 11, 2014

    On 5 March, Professor Maxi Schoeman addressed a packed Senate Hall, delivering a lecture on

  • Opinion: A state of anomie

    Posted on March 11, 2014

    The latest horrific acts of so-called passion killing are another signal of social decay and have provoked a wide range of responses. They reach from calls to bury killers alive to organised prayer meetings. In different ways such proposals show the inabi

  • PolSci professor awarded Unesco-UNC Chair

    Posted on March 11, 2014

    The Political Sciences Department is proud to announce that Lorenzo Fioramonti, associate professor in the department, has been been awarded a three-year Unesco-UNC Chair in regional integration, migration and the free movement of people at the United Nat

  • Opinion: Too much blue-sky planning hobbles SA

    Posted on March 05, 2014

    In some respects, the Department of International Relations and Co-operation is reminiscent of the proverbial "Potemkin village": an elaborate facade but lacking substance, writes UP Political Sciences Extraordinary Professor Gerrit Olivier in Business

  • US Fulbright scholarship opportunities

    Posted on March 05, 2014

    Mareka Chabedi and Edward Monster will be discussing the requirements and application procedure for the Fulbright scholarship for 2015 on 27 March.

  • Seminar report-back: India

    Posted on March 04, 2014

    On 27 February the Political Sciences Department hosted a seminar on India

  • Opinion: The BRICS of collapse?

    Posted on March 03, 2014

    Brazil, Russia, India, China and South AFrica have pursued GDP growth with little or no investment in human, social and natural capital. This does not bode well for the future of the world economy, writes UP Political Sciences Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti

  • Online publication: Measuring the Enabling Environment of Civil Society

    Posted on March 03, 2014

    The Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation's (GovInn's) work on the construction of a new global index for the assessment of civil society's enabling environment has been published online by scientific journal Voluntas, ahead of print public

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