This report was compiled from Institute for Global Dialogue’s (IGD) flagship symposium South Africa in the World, held in November 2018 and February 2019 and engaged government, academia, business, non-governmental and civil society actors. The symposiums covered the change in leadership and what this meant for South African foreign policy. Central in this regard was the discussion on the lead up to the 2019 national elections, the African agenda and strategic developments related to....

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During Brazil’s 2019 chairship, the five BRICS countries were clear about their intentions to make cooperation more inclusive by supporting the spirit of cooperation among business, scholars, media and civil society organisations, as well as building upon government interactions. Brazil, under the theme of the summit 'BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future', aimed to promote deliverables that would have a direct impact on lives of societies and to emphasise and maximise what BRICS means...

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The Latin America Report invites scholarly articles for publication in a special issue on the subject “The Amazonia on Fire: The Politics of Deforestation in the Global South”. The Journal is a double-blind peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal that is dedicated to critical and alternative analysis and sharing of information on developments in Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions of the global South. This special issue will be published in October 2020.

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Geographically situated in the ‘Global South’ as the geological extension of the Afro-Eurasian land mass, Africa is centrally situated at the very intersection of global strategic dynamics. This raises a number of questions. Chiefly: How
does Africa and its future, interlinked with the continent’s encircling geopolitical, economic and security dynamics impinging on continental-maritime perimeters in proximity to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the America’s relate to the
broader west-to-east shifting of the...
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The Institute for Global Dialogue and the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection cordially invite you to a Book launch titled Africa and the World: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics.
The edited volume analyses the shifting global landscape from the point of view of challenges and opportunities facing the African continent. Africa's geographical location means it can be considered a mega-island, located in the south between east and west. Read more...

The Dakar Conference of 1987 played an important diplomatic and supporting role for South Africa’s liberation; however, today the Dakar Dialogue has almost been forgotten and does not receive much attention. Moreover, Senegal and South Africa are not known as being major cooperation partners on the African continent anymore.

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