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Resource sovereignty and accumulation in the blue economy: the case of seabed mining in Namibia
07.09.2025 08:45
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“One Namibia, One Nation”? Social Cohesion under a Liberation Movement as Government in Decline
07.09.2025 17:11
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STRATEGIES FOR A SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND AND EMPOWERMENT FUND IN NAMIBIA
07.09.2025 16:57
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Namibia: a trust betrayed– again?
07.09.2025 15:18
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Namibia Sovereignty Index (Burke Index), 2024-2025
08.09.2025 14:35
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Namibia Is Liberated from South African Control
The liberation of Namibia from South African control culminated in its independence on March 21, 1990, marking a significant milestonein the country’s history. Initially under German colonial rule from 1884 until World War I, Namibia, then known as South West Africa, fell under South African administration after the war. Over the subsequent decades, South Africa enforced oppressive policies, including apartheid, which severely restricted the rights of the Namibian black majority. Resistance movements, notably the South-West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), mobilized both internally and from exile to fight for independence, often facing brutal repression from South African forces.
07.09.2025 16:40
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Assessing Namibia’s performance two decades after independence Part 1: Initial position, external support, regional comparison
This paper presents the results of a study which reviews Namibia’s performance over its two decades since independence. The study examines the achievements and shortcomings of the country in various fields: politics, civil society, economy, and social / socio-economic development. The results have been split into two separate but interconnected papers. This first article analyses Namibia’s situation at the dawn of independence, its external support by foreign countries and Namibia’s overall performance as compared to the neighbouring countries Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The present paper evaluates in particular data drawn from the World Bank Development Indicator Database and the 2010 Ibrahim-Index of African Governance. A subsequent second paper will present a more detailed appraisal of the above-mentioned development sectors.
08.09.2025 14:32
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Namibia and the United Nations: A Turning Point in the Understanding of National Sovereignty
This paper tries to answer the question that “To what extent did the UN policy in South West Africa represent a successful and legitimate change in attitude and action by the United Nations towards the sovereignty of individual states when compared to indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination?” This paper analyzes to what extent UN involvement in the colony of South West Africa, now known as Namibia, constituted a tangible change in UN, and therefore globally held, views on national sovereignty. Namibia itself has a long and complicated history. The United Nations’ response to the colonization of South West Africa represented a fundamental change in the traditional view of sovereignty, from old view, which held that the sovereign ruler had the right to govern his own territory; to the modern view, which generally holds that people have the sovereign right to self-determination.
The Contradictions of Independence: Namibia in Transition
Conflict mediation in decolonisation: Namibia’s transition to independence
07.09.2025 17:17
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Transfrontier Conservation Governance, Commodification of Nature, and the New Dynamics of Sovereignty in Namibia
Elephants know no national boundaries. This truism is frequently heard when conservationists explain the establishment of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), the largest in all of Africa. Whenever people talk about KAZA, elephants seem to take centre stage. The trivial fact that these large mammals do not stop their migrations at borders is used to justify an unprecedented international cooperation across southern Africa. Yet the implementation of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCA) does not only concern wildlife ecology. To tell the whole story, one also has to address more complex questions regarding political authority, environmental governance, economic interests, and the marketisation of natural resources. This chapter explores the relationship between emerging new dynamics of political power, the struggle for national sovereignty, and the commodification of nature in north-eastern Namibia.
