The world system, South America, Africa, and “Emerging Powers"

South-South Cooperation: Brazilian experiences in South America and Africa.

Over recent years Brazil has played an increasingly active role internationally, the result of its model of integration and its foreign policy directives. The health sector is a valuable and strategic area for Brazilian technical cooperation to achieve various objectives, including its development goals. This article describes the main directives of Brazilian foreign policy, conceptually defini...

Emerging infectious diseases--South Africa.

main a major cause of illness and death in South Africa. The medical infrastructure is good in major cities, primary health care is expanding in rural areas, and modern diagnostic facilities are reasonably widely available. Urban areas have a mixture of infectious disease problems encountered in developing as well as industrialized countries, and in the tropical environment of the northeast, ma...

the emerging economic powers (brics); goals, capabilities and status in the international system

today, the rapid and accelerating developments in the regional and international levels have caused countries to move towards greater integration and cooperation. this, in turn, triggered a new coalitions or alliances and strengthens old alliances, or even weaken. the emerging economic powers (brics) is one of these alliances and institutions that began its activities in 2009. the aim of the ne...

Divergent Paths of Development: The Modern World-System and Democratization in South Africa and Zambia

South Africa and the Arab World: Facing Common Challenges

Today the Arab countries of the Middle East face a challenge familiar to all South Africans: to create jobs for the large cohort of young people reaching working age. Over the next decade or so, the region may experience population growth of 150 million people—the equivalent of adding two Egypts (table 1). In demographic terms, the task is similar to that facing South Africa—only larger. Rising...