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This paper takes the position that interpretations of legal discourse are invariably taken in the context of socio-pragmatic
realities to which a particular instance of discourse applies. What makes this process even more complicated is the fact that
social realities themselves are often negotiated within the mould of one’s subjective conceptualisations of reality. Institutions
and organisations, including people in power, often represent socio-political realities from an ideologically fuelled perspective,
engendering many ‘illusory’ categories often a result of contested versions of reality. To substantiate this view, we discuss
interpretations of a number of interesting contemporary and controversial laws, including America’s Patriot Act and Hong Kong’s
proposed Article 23 of the Basic Law. Both laws can be seen as illustrative of the definitional conflict that abstract concepts
such as democracy and human rights are subjected to in their own specific socio-political contexts. While America crowns itself
with democracy and Hong Kong struggles to achieve it in effective synthesis with its unique political arrangement, the laws
produced by both contrasting political systems are unexpectedly similar, aiming for the moderation of basic rights. The actions
of both governments set against their beliefs and discourses, and furthermore set against one another and other media voices,
particularly those of non-governmental organisations, political activists, and other socio-political groups, demonstrate contestation
of realities, giving rise to ‘discursive illusions’, which seem to be interpreted not so much on the basis of their linguistic
construction but more on the basis of socio-pragmatic factors, such as trust, belief, transparency, control and power. 相似文献
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The task of transforming countries affected by conflict towards sustainable peace has been a persistent problem. In response to growing intra-state conflict in the post-Cold War era, it has become the norm to prescribe a cocktail of liberal democracy and free-market economics as a universal formula for building peaceful societies. South Africa, since its post-democratic emergence into global affairs, has also been active in promoting peace in Africa along similar lines. This article embarks on an exploratory qualitative analysis of South Africa’s peacebuilding engagements in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). It aims to contribute a better understanding of South Africa’s peacebuilding engagements by utilising the DRC case study to point out areas of convergence and dissonance with the dominant liberal model of peacebuilding. The article finds that, although peppered with successes and failures, South Africa does approach peacebuilding in a unique manner. It also calls for a revision of South Africa’s approach, given the varying levels of success in the DRC. 相似文献
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Aditi Lalbahadur 《South African Journal of International Affairs》2016,23(2):135-149
This paper considers the extent to which South Africa utilises positive economic statecraft to promote human rights in the region – that is, the degree to which it mobilises its economic engagement to affect a desirable political outcome in its foreign engagements in Southern Africa. The country's reaction to crises in Zimbabwe and Swaziland over the past 20 years is a strong indicator of the limits of South Africa's statecraft in this regard. These engagements highlight the inevitable clash between the country's principled preference for ‘non-interference’ in the affairs of sovereign states and its constitutional mandate to respect and promote human rights. Despite eschewing the role of ‘regional hegemon’, there is an expectation that South Africa will play an integral role in securing regional stability. Yet there is little evidence to suggest that the country chooses to approach resolving regional challenges with a co-ordinated political and economic approach. This paper argues that, to be more effective in spreading a progressive regional agenda that encourages democracy, governance and human rights, South Africa needs to incorporate a stronger element of positive economic statecraft in its foreign policy implementation. 相似文献
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Amiya Kumar Bagchi 《发展研究杂志》2013,49(2):271-273
As an economist who had absorbed the best of the Keynesian revolution, macro‐economic balances remained the grid on which Pramit Chaudhuri laid out his building. But his passion as a social scientist analysing an economy with perhaps the largest burden of poverty in the world came out in the fierce Brechtian quote which he used as an epigraph for his book, The Indian Economy ‐ ‘Those who have eaten their fill speak to the hungry of the wonderful times to come’. 相似文献