Browsing by Author "Pretorius, Joelien"
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Africa–India nuclear cooperation: pragmatism, principle, post-colonialism and the Pelindaba Treaty
Pretorius, Joelien (Routledge, 2011)The United States India nuclear agreement, announced in 2005, was a first step in the process to normalise India’s international nuclear relations despite the fact that India is not a party to the Treaty on the ... -
"Dubula ibhunu" (shoot the boer): A psycho-political analysis of farm attacks in South Africa
Pretorius, Joelien (Scielo, 2014)Post-colonial archetypes in the collective unconscious of South African society have actualised themselves powerfully in the discourses that have usurped the framing of what has come to be called “farm attacks” in South ... -
Eroding the middle ground: the shift in foreign policy underpinning South African nuclear diplomacy
Leith, Rian; Pretorius, Joelien (Routledge, 2009)In international relations states labelled as ‘middle powers’ are often responsible for crafting a middle way to bridge conflicting international interests. They typically favour multilateralism and cooperative international ... -
Ethics and international security in the information age
Pretorius, Joelien (Taylor & Francis, 2003)According to Moore’s Law, every 18 months technology is developed reducing electronic systems to half their previous size.1 The resultant impact upon the field of information and communication has been revolutionary and ... -
Non-alignment in the current world order. The impact of the rise of China
Pretorius, Joelien (Institute for Strategic Studies at the University of Pretoria, 2008)The relevance of the Non-Aligned Movement has been in question since the end of Cold War bipolarity. In the post-Cold War order, whether interpreted as cosmopolitan, unipolar, multipolar or globalised in nature, there are ... -
Nuclear Politics of Denial: South Africa and the Additional Protocol
Pretorius, Joelien (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013)South Africa was one of the first states to conclude an Additional Protocol with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2002, allowing the IAEA greater right of access to safeguard nuclear activities and material. ... -
Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing
Pretorius, Joelien (University of the Free State, 2008)This article traces the politics of meaning-fixing with respect to the role of the defence force as apartheid declined from the mid-1980s, as it was negotiated from a current to a past organising principle of the “security ... -
Revolution in military affairs, missile defence and weapons in space: The US strategic triad
Pretorius, Joelien (Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2005)American plans for Missile Defence (MD) and the weaponisation of space should be analysed in the larger framework of the contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).1 Soviet military analysts have written about this ... -
The Security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
Pretorius, Joelien (Sage, 2008)This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the world) at a time ... -
The security imaginary: Explaining military isomorphism
Pretorius, Joelien (SAGE, 2008)This article proposes the notion of a security imaginary as a heuristic tool for exploring military isomorphism (the phenomenon that weapons and military strategies begin to look the same across the world) at a time when ... -
The Technological culture of war
Pretorius, Joelien (Sage, 2008)The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction, that is, war can be “unlearned.” This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an ... -
Why treating water scarcity as a security issue is a bad idea.
Pretorius, Joelien (The Conversation Africa, 2018)Helen Zille, the Premier of the Western Cape in South Africa, has made two startling claims about the water crisis in the province. She says there will be anarchy when the taps run dry, and that normal policing will be ...