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10 Foreign Threats and Domestic Actions: Sanctions Against South Africa

December 1994

DOI:10.1515/9781685854799-012

In book: Justice Without Violence (pp.191-216)

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William H. Kaempfer

University of Colorado Boulder

Civil Disobedience: Existing and Changed Patterns

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Hakan Sonmez

Civil disobedience, or, in terms drawn from a similar vocabulary, “collective action,” “movement,” “civil resistance campaign,” or “violent or nonviolent action,” means challenging rulers to retain power and control. However, this one-sided focus on citizens’ behavior provides an incomplete picture because it is also important to take the countermoves of rulers into account. At best, there is a mutual trust between rulers and citizens because they have a great deal of interdependence, otherwise, it can end in a zero-sum game. The following inquiry is designed to find out how civil disobedience have evolved over time, what recent campaigns look like, and what the effects of such campaigns are. To that end, we can pose the following questions: What is the nature of modern-day acts of civil disobedience? And, are certain kinds of acts more likely to succeed than others?

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May 2000 · South African Journal of Science

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June 2017 · Eurasian Journal of Economics and Finance

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Financial integration in the Common Monetary Area

February 2005 · South African Journal of Economics

This paper assesses the level of financial integration within the CMA countries, using the concept of the uncovered interest rate parity. The impact of foreign interest rates on the domestic interest rates, in this case the South African rates on the rates of the LNS countries, is analysed. For comparative purposes, other neighbouring countries such as Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe are brought ... [Show full abstract] into the analysis. The results from the uncovered interest rate parity approach show that Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland can be considered to be well financially integrated with the South African market, while for Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe it shows the contrary. Copyright 2005 Economic Society of South Africa.

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Robert E. Christiansen

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Lesotho: Labour Export, Domestic Politics and Foreign Relations

January 1995

Bill Paton

Lesotho’s development epitomizes in several respects the importance of labour export in developing international relations in Southern Africa. The proportion of Lesotho’s waged labour force working outside the country has been the largest of any country on the African continent. From an estimated 3000 workers in 1844, already a high 6 per cent of the population, the number away working in South ... [Show full abstract] Africa peaked at an estimated 209 000 in 1970 — equal to 20 per cent of Lesotho’s population. The proportion then fell to 8 per cent by 1990.

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July 2013 · Journal of Transnational Management

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April 1987 · British Journal of Political Science

Jarol B. Manheim

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