NEW REFERENCE BOOKS

Have a look at the following important reference books we received:

Europa World Yearbook 2011:

Includes "detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical, statistical and directory information for over 250 countries and territories.

For more than eighty years since its first publication, the Europa World Year Book has been the premier source of contemporary political and socio-economic analysis for library reference shelves, offering timely information with a global reach.

Brand new content for 2011 includes:

• a detailed discussion of the political transition in Kyrgyzstan following the uprising of April 2010, including an extensive description of the new constitutional text
• coverage of recent events in Côte d'Ivoire following the disputed presidential election of November 2010, plus information on the return to civilian government following the military coups in Guinea and Niger
• expert analysis of the anti-government uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa and the conflicts in Libya, as well as detailed background information on the political and economic affairs in the affected countries
• 2010 census results for numerous territories, ranging from Oman to the USA, with expanded demographic sections for many countries." (Amazon.com)

SIPRI Yearbook 2011:

The 42nd edition of the SIPRI Yearbook includes coverage of developments during 2010 in
Major armed conflicts
Multilateral peace operations
Military expenditure

• Arms production
• International arms transfers
• World nuclear forces, and stocks and production of fissile materials
• Nuclear arms control and non-proliferation
• Reducing security threats from chemical and biological materials
• Conventional arms control and military confidence building
  Strategic trade controls
• Multilateral arms embargoes

as well as special studies on

• Corruption and the arms trade
• Resources and armed conflict
• The fragile consensus in peace operations
  and extensive annexes on
• Arms control and disarmament agreements
• International security cooperation bodies
• Events during 2010 in the area of security and arms control (SIPRI.ORG)

World Disasters Report 2011- Focus on hunger and malnutrition

World Disasters Report 2011- Focus on hunger and malnutrition

PTO 111 ASSIGHNMENT

Suggestions for your assignment:

 Butler, A. 2009. Contemporary South Africa. 2nd ed. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan.    GV 968.066 BUTLER

Cover feature: South Africa Inc.

Country forecast South Africa July 2010

South Africa Yearbook 2009/2010

South Africa Millennium Development Goals 2010

The Potential of Social Media to Impact Socio-Political Change on the African Continent (March 2011)

The Potential of Social Media to Impact Socio-Political Change on the African Continent (March 2011)

GeoCurrent Events: The Failure of the Failed State Index

GeoCurrent Events: The Failure of the Failed State Index: "The use of the term “failed state” has surged over the past fifteen years, as can be seen in the Google N-Gram posted above showing the..."

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Strategic Management Plan 2010-2011 (March 2011)

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Strategic Management Plan 2010-2011 (March 2011)

State of the Union Report

The State of the Union South Africa report, produced by the Southern Africa Trust and TrustAfrica, analyses South Africa's compliance with selected key African Union instruments.

UNEP Year Book 2011 – Executive Summary (February 2011)

UNEP Year Book 2011 – Executive Summary (February 2011)

Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication – Summary

Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication – Summary

BRIC now becomes BRICS with entry of South Africa

BRIC now becomes BRICS with entry of South Africa

State of the Nation Address 10 Feb 2011

State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Joint Sitting Of Parliament
Bua News

Somalia marks 20 years of civil war

16th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly

Read about the 16th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly on their new webpage.

Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC

Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC

NEW BOOKS JANUARY 2011

POLITICAL STUDIES – NEW BOOKS – 17 JANUARY 2011

POLITIEKE STUDIES – NUWE BOEKE – 17 JANUARIE 2011

TITLE        Emerging states : the wellspring of a new world order /

               Christophe Jaffrelot, editor ; translated from the French by

               Cynthia Schoch.

PUBLISHER    London : Hurst & Co. ; [Paris] : In Association with Centre

               d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), c2008.

CALL NO      327.091724 EMERGING.

TITLE        International relations scholarship around the world / edited by

               Arlene B. Tickner and Ole Wæver.

PUBLISHER    London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

CALL NO      327.071 INTERNATIONAL.

TITLE        Understanding international relations / Chris Brown and Kirsten

               Ainley.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009.

CALL NO      327 BROWN.

EDITION      4th ed.

TITLE        Freedom not yet : liberation and the next world order / Kenneth

               Surin.

PUBLISHER    Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

CALL NO      335.4 SURIN.

TITLE        The foreign policy of the European Union / Stephan Keukeleire and

               Jennifer MacNaughtan.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

CALL NO      327.4 KEUKELEIRE.

TITLE        The conduct of inquiry in international relations : philosophy of

               science and its implications for the study of world politics /

               Patrick Thaddeus Jackson.

PUBLISHER    New York : Routledge, 2010.

CALL NO      327.101 JACKSON.

TITLE        Qualitative methods in international relations : a pluralist

               guide / edited by Audie Klotz and Deepa Prakash.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

CALL NO      327.072 QUALITATIVE.

TITLE        Comparative political theory : an introduction / edited by Fred

               Dallmayr.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

CALL NO      320.01 COMPARATIVE.

TITLE        Foreign policy challenges in the 21st century / edited by Michael

               Heazle, Martin Griffiths, Tom Conley.

PUBLISHER    Cheltenham ; Northhampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2009.

CALL NO      327 FOREIGN.

TITLE        Hoor! hoor! Hansard : honderd jaar debat, 1910-2010 / At van Wyk.

PUBLISHER    Kaapstad : Tafelberg, 2010.

CALL NO      320.968 VAN WYK.

TITLE        Understanding the European Union : a concise introduction / John

               McCormick.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

CALL NO      337.142 MCCORMICK.

EDITION      4th ed.

TITLE        The African human rights system : origin and evolution / Kofi

               Oteng Kufuor.

PUBLISHER    New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

CALL NO      323.096 OTENG.

TITLE        Issues and methods in comparative politics : an introduction /

               Todd Landman.

PUBLISHER    London : Routledge, 2007.

CALL NO      320.3 LANDMAN.

EDITION      3rd ed.

TITLE        No war, no peace : the rejuvenation of stalled peace processes

               and peace accords / Roger Mac Ginty.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

CALL NO      303.66 MAC GINTY.

EDITION      [1st paperback ed.]

TITLE        Critical security studies : an introduction / Columba Peoples and

               Nick Vaughan-Williams.

PUBLISHER    Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.

CALL NO      355.033 PEOPLES.

TITLE        China's "new" diplomacy : tactical or fundamental change? /

               edited by Pauline Kerr, Stuart Harris, and Qin Yaqing.

PUBLISHER    New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

CALL NO      327.51 CHINA.

TITLE        Democratic foreign policy making : problems of divided government

               and international cooperation / edited by Robert Pahre.

PUBLISHER    New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

CALL NO      327.1 DEMOCRATIC.

TITLE        Sustainable development in a globalized world : studies in

               development, security and culture / edited by Björn Hettne.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008-

CALL NO      338.927 SUSTAINABLE.

TITLE        From protest to challenge. a documentary history of African

               politics in South Africa, 1882-1990 / Gail M. Gerhart & Clive

               L. Glaser.

PUBLISHER    Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2010.

CALL NO      323.168 FROM GERHART.

TITLE        Global governance / edited by Lisa Martin.

PUBLISHER    Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

CALL NO      327.101 GLOBAL.

TITLE        The health of Southern Africa / Merle de Haan, updated and

               revised by Kathleen Dennill and Sharon Vasuthevan.

PUBLISHER    Cape Town : Juta ; London, 2005.

CALL NO      362.10968 DE HAAN.

EDITION      9th ed.

TITLE        Canada among nations, 2009-2010 : as others see us / edited by

               Fen Osler Hampson and Paul Heinbecker.

PUBLISHER    Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

CALL NO      327.71 CANADA.

TITLE        Testing global interdependence : issues on trade, aid, migration

               and development / edited by Ernest Aryeetey, Natalia Dinello.

PUBLISHER    Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Elgar, c2007.

CALL NO      337 TESTING.

TITLE        The new age of terrorism and the international political system /

               Adrian Guelke.

PUBLISHER    London : I.B. Tauris, 2009.

CALL NO      303.625 GUELKE.

TITLE        Authority in the global political economy / edited by Volker

               Rittberger, Martin Nettesheim, and associate editor, Carmen

               Huckel.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

CALL NO      337.01 AUTHORITY.

TITLE        Humanitarian intervention : confronting the contradictions /

               Michael Newman.

PUBLISHER    London : Hurst, 2009.

CALL NO      341.584 NEWMAN.

TITLE        Transnational actors in global governance : patterns,

               explanations and implications / edited by Christer Jonsson and

               Jonas Tallberg.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

CALL NO      327.17 TRANSNATIONAL.

TITLE        Horizontal inequalities & conflict : understanding group violence

               in multiethnic societies / edited by Frances Stewart.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

CALL NO      303.64091724 HORIZONTAL.

TITLE        Trade, poverty and the environment : the EU, Cotonou and the

               African-Caribbean-Pacific bloc / Adrian Flint.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

CALL NO      337.142 FLINT.

TITLE        The critical theory of Robert W. Cox : fugitive or guru? /

               Anthony Leysens.

PUBLISHER    Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

CALL NO      327.101 LEYSENS.

TITLE        Realism and international politics / Kenneth N. Waltz.

PUBLISHER    New York : Routledge, 2008.

CALL NO      327.101 WALTZ.

TITLE        Testing democracy : which way is South Africa going? / edited by

               Neeta Misra-Dexter and Judith February.

PUBLISHER    Cape Town : IDASA, 2010.

CALL NO      321.80968 TESTING.

TITLE        Arguing about political philosophy / edited by Matt Zwolinski.

PUBLISHER    New York : Routledge, 2009.

CALL NO      320.01 ARGUING.

TITLE        Bloody nations : moral dilemmas for nations, states and

               international relations / Cherry Bradshaw.

PUBLISHER    Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

CALL NO      172.4 BRADSHAW.

TITLE        1989 : democratic revolutions at the Cold War's end : a brief

               history with documents / Padraic Kenney.

PUBLISHER    Boston : Bedford/St. Martins, c2010.

CALL NO      355.03304 KENNEY.

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