Seminar paper: Challenges to the AU

Posted on September 09, 2013

Dr Martin Welz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz, recently presented a seminar entitled "The African Union and its fight against internal and external exclusion" to the Department of Political Sciences.

Seminar invitation: The African Union

Posted on August 26, 2013

The Department of Political Sciences invites you to a seminar entitled "The African Union and its fight against internal and external exclusion", to be presented by Dr Martin Welz on 3 September.

Seminar paper: Responsibility to Protect

Posted on August 21, 2013

On 21 August Professor Tim Dunne, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, presented a paper entitled "Distributing Duties and Counting Costs: The State of R2P after Libya and Syria" at a seminar hosted by the Department of P

PolSci Dept represented at APSA Africa workshop

Posted on August 20, 2013

Ms Shirley de Villiers, lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of Political Sciences, was selected to attend the American Political Science Association's annual Africa workshop from 1-12 July in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Opinion: Is this African democracy?

Posted on August 19, 2013

If the fraudulent elections that took place in broad daylight in Zimbabwe on 31 July were the latest valid reference point for "democracy made in Africa", we have messed up the continent

PolSci Student Spotlight

Posted on August 19, 2013

Ms Faith Mabera, master's student and programme assistant for the Department of Political Science's MDips programme, recently featured in the newsletter of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

Lecture invitation: International Justice: Are Courts Helpful?

Posted on August 16, 2013

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in cooperation with the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa in the Faculty of Law invites you to an exclusive lecture on the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal

Opinion: State of denial

Posted on August 16, 2013

Migration is a conveniently ignored reality in Southern Africa. The lack of regional governance is a critical challenge, writes GovInn Research Fellow Dr Chris Nshimbi on openDemocracy.net.