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Israel in Africa: Transactional Politics and Medium-sized States

By Yotam Gidron
July 10, 2020

srael in Africa: Further Reflections on Transactional Politics and Medium Sized States

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Corporate Weaponization of Social Media Platforms Threatens Democracy

By Rachel Zimmerman
July 6, 2020

Democracies are vulnerable to social media misinformation.

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Africa and Israel: Re-Opening the Debate

By Alex de Waal
June 25, 2020

Israel’s security strategy for Africa is a fusion of the principles of transactional politics the transnational political marketplace

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Israel in Africa: Security, Migration, Interstate Politics – Book Launch Webinar

By African Arguments
June 18, 2020

Stream Yotam Gidron's Israel In Africa Book Launch from Royal African Society

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Village Life in Modern Africa – Review of Camila Toulmin’s Land, Investment and Migration: Thirty-five Years of Village Life in Mali

By Richard Dowden
June 16, 2020

Camilla Toulmin documents the deepest historic change that humanity makes; the change from hand-to-mouth farming to modern agriculture.

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People’s Science and Translocality in South Africa

By Leslie Bank
June 15, 2020

Can failure to take account of social embeddedness of economics account for the mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic?

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Epidemics and Social Observation: Why Africa Needs a Different Approach to Covid-19

By Paul Richards
June 1, 2020

Why haven’t social factors been more thoroughly scrutinised in the huge upsurge of scientific effort to combat Covid-19?

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Gifting and the Capable State in Times of Crisis

By Leslie Bank
May 25, 2020

State gifting and the politics of bailouts in the time of Covid

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Will Covid-19 South Africa be Another Case of ‘Death Without Weeping’?

By Leslie Bank
May 18, 2020

How do Covid-19 socialised responses to death and disease compare with previous pandemics?

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Introducing ‘African Arguments-Debating Ideas’

By Alex de Waal
March 16, 2020

Alex De Waal (Director at the World Peace Foundation and editor at African Arguments) introduces the ethos of Debating Ideas - the latest addition ...

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