The Janus Faces of a Middle Power: South Africa's Emergence in International Development

Journal of Southern African Studies

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 203-216

  Yanacopulos, Helen ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; POLITICAL POWER; POWER RELATIONS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84895819781     PISSN: 03057070     EISSN: 14653893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2013.860715     Document Type: Article

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1. This project was funded by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID). I would like to thank DFID for their support, as well as my colleagues on the project-Emma Mawdsley, Patty Gray, May Tan-Mullens and Ela Dre{ogonek}żkiewicz-Grodzick. I would also like to thank Alex Wafer who assisted on the South African case study.
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