Posted on March 24, 2014
Jindal Global University in India has announced 50 master's scholarships for African students.
Posted on March 18, 2014
The Department of Political Sciences invites you to a seminar entitled "Stability in the South Caucasus in light of South Africa-Azerbaijan Relations", to be presented by Ambassador Elkhan Polukhov on 25 March.
Posted on March 13, 2014
Territorial greed is as quintessentially Russian as borscht and vodka. Over the centuries, by way of conquest, occupation, colonisation and diplomacy, Russia has developed into one of the largest empires the world has seen, writes UP Political Sciences Ex
Posted on March 11, 2014
On 5 March, Professor Maxi Schoeman addressed a packed Senate Hall, delivering a lecture on
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
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
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
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.
Posted on March 04, 2014
On 27 February the Political Sciences Department hosted a seminar on India
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
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
Posted on February 26, 2014
As the saying goes, one does not need enemies with friends like these. A few days ago the most damning report ever in the history of the United Nations was released. It deals with the situation in the Democratic People
Posted on February 26, 2014
Dr Cori Wielenga Post-doctoral Fellow in the Political Science Department, recently attended the third African Alliance for Peace Summit, held in Kigali, Rwanda.
Posted on February 25, 2014
The Department of Political Sciences invites you to a seminar entitled "Indian Foreign Policy: An agenda for global responsibility", to be presented by Prof Sreeram Chaulia on 27 February
Posted on February 25, 2014
On 19 February the Political Sciences Department hosted a roundtable debate at the University of Pretoria on the topic of currency misalignment.
Posted on February 25, 2014
On 24 February Ebrahim Ebrahim, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, presented a seminar entitled "Twenty years of conflict resolution: lessons learned and the case of Syria".
Posted on February 24, 2014
Last August Political Sciences Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti presented a keynote address at the annual global conference for the Institute of Internal Auditors. A podcast of the address is now available online.
Posted on February 24, 2014
The London School of Economics and Political Science recently published a review of UP Political Science Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti's most recent book, How Numbers Rule the World: The use and abuse of statistics in global politics.
Posted on February 18, 2014
On Thursday 12 February the Political Sciences Department hosted the launch of Political Science lecturer Dr Mzukisi Qobo and the Centre of Politics and Research
Posted on February 18, 2014
The Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria Prof Cheryl de la Rey cordially invites you to attend the 14th lecture in the UP Expert Lecture Series, "A crisis of leadership? Reflections on 20 years of democracy" to be presente
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