New titles ASC LeidenASC Leiden RSS feedhttp://www.asclibrary.nl/rss/NewtitlesASCLeiden.xml https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5175 Brazil-Russia-China-South Africa (BRCS) Paradox: Reconciling Normative Ambitions with Strategic Interests in the United Nations The Thinker Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00 https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5178 Economic Diplomacy, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Path to Sustainable Development: Evidence, Barriers, and Strategic Opportunities for Guinea The Thinker Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00 https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5177 Change and Contradiction: Hungary’s Foreign Policy Across its 2011 and 2024 European Council Presidencies The Thinker Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00 https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5179 The Re-examination of South Africa’s National Interests in a Post-International and Heterarchy Era The Thinker Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00 https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5174 Trump 2.0, Personality and Power:Assessing Trump’s Foreign Policyin a Multipolar World Order The Thinker Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00 https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5173 Balancing Act: South Africa’s Foreign Policy, Peacebuilding and SDG 16 in an Era of Renewed Unilateralism The Thinker the resulting scenario functions as the dependent variable. The framework is applied to three case studies: the 2014 Lesotho mediation, the 2013 Force Intervention Brigade in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Africa’s voting behaviour in the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council. The analysis finds that South Africa most often occupies the values-interests dilemma quadrant, where normative commitments are maintained rhetorically but weakened in practice by geopolitical and economic pressures. The article concludes that South Africa must recalibrate its diplomacy to remain strategically adaptive while preserving its credibility on SDG 16 in an increasingly divided international order. ]]> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00 https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/The_Thinker/article/view/5172 Reexamining Foreign Policy in the New World Order The Thinker Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:13:17 +02:00