...This chapter discusses how the Union Defence Force (UDF) in South Africa was considered small, ill-prepared, and in a dismal state due to years of peacetime neglect. It cites the defense policy of the interwar Union governments that had been based on fighting an African opponent or defending...

...This chapter recounts the international meeting held by a group of security guards and union activists from across South Africa on the 2006 security guard strike that lasted for three months. A study on this meeting shows that South Africa's union movement, though intensely political, is grappling...

... of Thailand, Brazil, and South Africa, it highlights the surprising role played by elites from esteemed professions who, rationally speaking, aren’t in need of healthcare or medicine themselves and who would otherwise seem to have little to gain from such policies. The chapter points to the relative success...

... labor unions power resources mass movements democratization heightened political competition Thailand Brazil South Africa “We trust our health to the physician, our fortune, and sometimes our life and reputation, to the lawyer and attorney. Such confidence could not safely be reposed in people...

... the organizational vehicle of the state to advance universal health coverage and the power of the law to deepen commitments to essential medicine, The chapters relate how the differences in outcomes between Thailand and Brazil, on one hand, and South Africa, on the other, hinged on dramatically different political...

... and maintenance workers in 1980, 1981, and 1987; the arrest of more than 1,000 people in 1985 amid protests over Cornell's divestment policy in South Africa; protests by African American students and faculty against proposals to institute random housing assignments for first-year students; and Latinos' occupation...

... more visible on campus with the help of a newspaper, the Cornell Review. Furthermore, a movement for divestment from South Africa gathered strength on the campus, culminating in the construction of a “shantytown” and mass arrests in 1985 and 1986. This chapter discusses the ways...

...This chapter considers school gardens in North America and urban agriculture in South Africa as sites for urban environmental education. Urban agriculture encompasses rooftop and community gardens, greenhouses, hydroponic systems, plant nurseries, small livestock husbandry, and vertical farms...

...This chapter expounds on class politics in South Africa. It examines the divergent forms of group solidarity and state engagement that predominated in the case studies looking into activism in Tsakane10, Thembelihle, Motsoaledi, and Bekkersdal. The divergent political orientations of prominent...

... complicity with South Africa’s apartheid regime, and the presence of ROTC on campus. Here the author talks about the dispute involving the Cornell Afro-American Society versus the university administration and faculty, along with the SDS’s support for Cornell’s black student activists; the ruling of the U.S...

..., similar to the case of the Soviet bioweapons program. In addition, the increased financial burden and its effects on knowledge management can derail a program. These problems are evident in covert bioweapons programs in Iraq, South Africa, and the terrorist group Aum Shinrikyo. The deleterious power...

... as a truck driver and other sources to pay the school fees and transportation money for him to attend school in the predominantly white town of Howick. Mpophomeni and Howick are spaced about fifteen kilometers apart, in KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. His parents were proud when their son graduated...

... landmark policies possible in Thailand and Brazil but which have led to prolonged struggle and contestation in South Africa. While conventional wisdom suggests that democratization empowers the masses, this book draws attention to an underappreciated dynamic: that democratization empowers elites from...

...Although a constellation of factors would seem to have predisposed South Africa to make major new commitments to expand access to healthcare after the fall of apartheid, embrace of National Health Insurance has taken place in name only more than 20 years later. The chapter suggests that this sad...

...Although South Africa has the largest AIDS treatment program in the world, the ANC’s mishandling of the epidemic post-apartheid nevertheless contributed significantly to the spread of the disease. Unlike in Thailand or Brazil – where in many instances professional movements partnered with the state...

... in post-apartheid South Africa, Disgrace challenges the philosophical and practical wisdom of using the language of rights either to condemn wrongdoing or to instigate sociopolitical recovery. This chapter examines Disgrace's use of the animal world as a surrogate...

... appeal for white male tourists from South Africa, which featured a culture that was both staid and socially and sexually suppressive. After crossing the Mozambican border, these visitors immediately enjoyed the colony's racial permeability, newly gaining access to what would have been “forbidden fruit...

... global economic trends South Africa hard work South African people Bullet, a South African man now in his late twenties, graduated from one of the top public high schools in his province. Upon graduation, he accepted a partial scholarship to enter a prelaw degree program at the University...

... the US national interests. The chapter notes the strong connection between Reagan's anti-communism beliefs and support for human rights. On the other hand, administration critics argued that Reagan's policy of constructive engagement toward South Africa had failed as the US policy worsened and indulged...

... weapons pursuit in the absence of protracted security threats. The chapter analyzes two cases using qualitative analysis: nuclear decision making in South Africa and India. Statistical tests revealed a correlation between nuclear cooperation agreements and nuclear weapons program initiation, while...