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As a continental organization the OAU provides an effective forum that enables all Member States to adopt coordinated positions on matters of common concern to the continent in international fora and defend the interests of Africa effectively

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has developed practical solutions to the world’s greatest challenges and provide strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to help decisionmakers chart a course toward a better world.

Identify new trends in global conflict, as well as to formulate and document new understandings of and responses to armed conflict; seek to understand how people are impacted by, and cope with, armed conflict, and we study the normative foundations of peace and violence.

ISS is an African organisation which aims to enhance human security by providing independent and authoritative research, expert policy analysis and advice, and training and technical assistance.

The IISS focusses on nuclear deterrence and arms control. It is also renowned for its annual Military Balance assessment of countries' armed forces and for its high-powered security summits, including the Shangri-La Dialogue.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation’s (DIRCO) vision is championing an African continent, which is prosperous, peaceful, democratic, non-racial, non-sexist and united and which aspires to a world that is just and equitable.

On these pages you will find information on the Routledge list which covers Homeland Security, Military Studies, Security Studies - Military & Strategic, and Strategic Studies

The New Partnership for Africa's Development is an economic development program of the African Union. NEPAD was adopted at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia.

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) is an independent think tank engaged in cutting edge defence and security research and brings to the fore vital policy issues to both domestic and global audiences, enhancing its growing reputation as a ‘thought-leader institute’.

SAFPI is intended to promote understanding of the ways in which South Africa articulates its foreign policy principles on the international stage in service of realising a more equitable world order. It is envisioned as a multi-year project with its relative permanence hopefully permitting SAFPI to become a centre of excellence in thinking about how SA's foreign policy behaviour and articulation of global

The official authoritative reference work on the Republic of South Africa - updated annually.

BRICS is a dialogue and cooperation platform among Member States
(Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) which together account for 30%
of global land, 43% of global population and 21% of the world’s Gross Domestic
Product (GDP), 17.3% of global merchandise trade1, 12.7% of global
commercial services2 and 45% of world's Agriculture Production3. This
platform aims to promote peace, security, prosperity and development in
multipolar, interconnected and globalized world. The BRICS countries
represent Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America, which gives their cooperation
a transcontinental dimension making it especially valuable and significant.

The New Partnership for Africa's Development is an economic development program of the African Union. NEPAD was adopted at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a Regional Economic Community comprising 15 Member States; Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Established in 1992, SADC is committed to Regional Integration and poverty eradication within Southern Africa through economic development and ensuring peace and security.