Mischal MR
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Realism is a body of thoughts that reveal the world of politics as a “struggle for power”. ‘Classical Realists’ explain power as an egotistic nature of human or state behaviour in an aggressive tone; ‘Neo-realists’ understand realism as a structure embedded in anarchic state systems; and ‘Neoclassical Realists’ illustrates realism as a combination of the former-two, provided with variables to accommodate rationalized state interests. These thoughts, for the Realist, are main categories for states to centralize around the “management, possession, and application of power”.
Constructivism- not as a theoretical perspective but as an ontological study aims to understand the ‘structures’ of International Relations (IR) through the sociological constructions (history, beliefs, culture, perspectives and norms) made by ‘agents’. The ontology opens for an interactive gap, where the constructs of society were unaccounted for by the Realist and Liberal-institutionalist perspectives.
The theory propounds on Marxism and Economic Structuralism. They contest the ideologies and reactions of the realists and liberalists perspectives within capitalist systems. Both theories are assumed critical given their nature to investigate the systemic constructs of beliefs, assumptions and tendencies of the world found today.
As a perspective of Marxism, Feminism focuses on the societal formed constructs of human nature. In other words, society themselves have constructed and divided people into two gender classes under several labels- ‘male’ and ‘female’; ‘masculine and feminine; and ‘man’ and ‘woman’.
Currently, the European Union (EU)-SADC ‘Economic Partnership Agreement’ (hereon referred to as the EPA) governs RSA’s trade with the EU, including the United Kingdom (UK). The agreement treats RSA to several economic developments through trade liberalization; encouraging maximized agricultural production alongside the EU single market. On the other hand, the EPA enables the EU to invest and secure fixed portions (quotas) of RSA’s agricultural products under negotiated and agreed terms (European Commission, 2017). The UK is a major shareholder of this fixed trade under the EPA. It exists as one of the largest consumers of RSA’s agricultural exports destined for Europe. Despite this significance, the UK’s plan to exit and renegotiate its affiliation with the EU: labelled as Brexit, stands as a fragmentation to existing EU trade agreements fixed under extensive negotiations. Brexit will take effect given the ‘referendum’ and Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, providing a dualistic framework to release the UK of all EU enrolled trade agreements, including the newly signed EPA which involves RSA (Gibb, 2016). By this, post-Brexit will require the UK to form new independent trade agreements with its lost partners. If the UK involves RSA in these post-Brexit arrangements, it could imply a prioritizing of RSA’s high-end-quality agricultural products. The manner (arrangement) in which this might take place is unknown, thus forming the basis for the objective of this deductive study.
The study aims to outline the possible trade arrangements that the UK and EU could both separately take for RSA’s agricultural exports post-Brexit. These trade arrangements will be framed in the form of agreements. They will be grounded on two contrasting perspectives - Neo-mercantilism and Neoliberalism respectively. Both views serve as the underlying theoretical framework of analysis for this study. These arrangements will be evaluated under “hard” and “soft” Brexit trade conditions, providing potential outcomes for the net impact on RSA’s agricultural exports post-Brexit. The conditions illustrate distinct outcomes of how trade relations between the UK and the EU could reform and thereby influence other international trading partners and their respective sectors. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore the impact on RSA’s agricultural exports to the UK and EU post-Brexit, through the deduction of four possible permutations.
the growing negative perceptions that have emerged amongst citizenries and voters on concerns of unethical
conduct, lack of accountability for the negative contribution to the realities in the South African government.
These developments are a major factor in affecting their supporter’s frame, for both recent and future elections.
They create an intensified political setting in a country where opposition parties like the DA and EFF have
attracted mass support. The DA and EFF embark on ever-growing campaign strategies which include
slandering the realities of current ANC government faults, posing as genuine competitors. Such an
establishment of campaigning competition within the South African political realm has resulted in the ruling
party to ‘taking-a-knock’; where a transition in voter support was acknowledged in the recent Local
Government Elections (LGE). The result, motivation to further attain or ‘recruit’ ANC supporters by
enhancing their campaign and communicative methods; thus striving to surpass the ruling party’s liberation
influence.
of production for domestic and global market use. The advanced-economies of Western-Europe have
integrated liberalized trade policies to determine its factor endowments: "land, labour and capital" (Hiscox,
2017:78). These serve productions in the free-market capitalist system. Real-income provides influence of
these policies, which in-turn, decide income levels of socio-economic groups.
upon voters within a democracy has added to my understandings in identifying certain trends and patterns that
relate to voter perceptions and therefore behaviour in the 2016 Local Elections. Over the past decade, the
ruling party (ANC) has experienced a gradual motion of decline pertaining to not only their unethical
accountability of government as per our president Jacob Zuma and his associated cabinet, but also in terms of
the frustrations expressed amongst citizenry and voter satisfactions of reality settings throughout the broader
South Africa, emerging as a major factor in affecting their supporter’s frame within the recent local elections
(Booysen, 2016).
philosophers whom focussed on the integration of political liberty with the relationship found
between that of the individual, society and the state, by the means of power or authority. Both
of these political thinkers formed their arguments in their writings, namely; On Liberty (1859)
by Mill, and The Social Contract (1913) by Rousseau. On a more specific scale, their ideologies
were stark opposites, whereby Rousseau claims that people and individuals of society may only
acquire the entity of freedom through a transitioning process from the natural state to the civil
state, whereby they would have to conform to the general will as the common good. On the
other hand, Mill claims that society is more tyrannical over individual liberty, where he
believes that individuals should pursue their own self-liberty as dependency on the general will
is not always reliable.
interdependency of geographical significant states. These states are recognized as a single trading bloc,
reaching for greater political and economic incentives. In achieving this, the capitalist and intergovernmental
systems of member states merge as one. According to Malamud & Schmitter (2011:142), the efforts of
Europe emerging as a “regional trading hub”, the European Union (EU), is by far the most significant
attempt to establish regionalism in 20th-century markets.
took the podium at the New York-based institution of the United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA). In his speech, Trump provided global leaders and diplomats with a radically
different angle to view world politics, creating a divide between the “righteous many” and
“wicked few.” He deters away from the mainstream issues of climate change to more
realistically humanitarian concerns, where nation-states are currently being impacted and
threatened by international or domestic terror.
Realism is a body of thoughts that reveal the world of politics as a “struggle for power”. ‘Classical Realists’ explain power as an egotistic nature of human or state behaviour in an aggressive tone; ‘Neo-realists’ understand realism as a structure embedded in anarchic state systems; and ‘Neoclassical Realists’ illustrates realism as a combination of the former-two, provided with variables to accommodate rationalized state interests. These thoughts, for the Realist, are main categories for states to centralize around the “management, possession, and application of power”.
Constructivism- not as a theoretical perspective but as an ontological study aims to understand the ‘structures’ of International Relations (IR) through the sociological constructions (history, beliefs, culture, perspectives and norms) made by ‘agents’. The ontology opens for an interactive gap, where the constructs of society were unaccounted for by the Realist and Liberal-institutionalist perspectives.
The theory propounds on Marxism and Economic Structuralism. They contest the ideologies and reactions of the realists and liberalists perspectives within capitalist systems. Both theories are assumed critical given their nature to investigate the systemic constructs of beliefs, assumptions and tendencies of the world found today.
As a perspective of Marxism, Feminism focuses on the societal formed constructs of human nature. In other words, society themselves have constructed and divided people into two gender classes under several labels- ‘male’ and ‘female’; ‘masculine and feminine; and ‘man’ and ‘woman’.
Currently, the European Union (EU)-SADC ‘Economic Partnership Agreement’ (hereon referred to as the EPA) governs RSA’s trade with the EU, including the United Kingdom (UK). The agreement treats RSA to several economic developments through trade liberalization; encouraging maximized agricultural production alongside the EU single market. On the other hand, the EPA enables the EU to invest and secure fixed portions (quotas) of RSA’s agricultural products under negotiated and agreed terms (European Commission, 2017). The UK is a major shareholder of this fixed trade under the EPA. It exists as one of the largest consumers of RSA’s agricultural exports destined for Europe. Despite this significance, the UK’s plan to exit and renegotiate its affiliation with the EU: labelled as Brexit, stands as a fragmentation to existing EU trade agreements fixed under extensive negotiations. Brexit will take effect given the ‘referendum’ and Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, providing a dualistic framework to release the UK of all EU enrolled trade agreements, including the newly signed EPA which involves RSA (Gibb, 2016). By this, post-Brexit will require the UK to form new independent trade agreements with its lost partners. If the UK involves RSA in these post-Brexit arrangements, it could imply a prioritizing of RSA’s high-end-quality agricultural products. The manner (arrangement) in which this might take place is unknown, thus forming the basis for the objective of this deductive study.
The study aims to outline the possible trade arrangements that the UK and EU could both separately take for RSA’s agricultural exports post-Brexit. These trade arrangements will be framed in the form of agreements. They will be grounded on two contrasting perspectives - Neo-mercantilism and Neoliberalism respectively. Both views serve as the underlying theoretical framework of analysis for this study. These arrangements will be evaluated under “hard” and “soft” Brexit trade conditions, providing potential outcomes for the net impact on RSA’s agricultural exports post-Brexit. The conditions illustrate distinct outcomes of how trade relations between the UK and the EU could reform and thereby influence other international trading partners and their respective sectors. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore the impact on RSA’s agricultural exports to the UK and EU post-Brexit, through the deduction of four possible permutations.
the growing negative perceptions that have emerged amongst citizenries and voters on concerns of unethical
conduct, lack of accountability for the negative contribution to the realities in the South African government.
These developments are a major factor in affecting their supporter’s frame, for both recent and future elections.
They create an intensified political setting in a country where opposition parties like the DA and EFF have
attracted mass support. The DA and EFF embark on ever-growing campaign strategies which include
slandering the realities of current ANC government faults, posing as genuine competitors. Such an
establishment of campaigning competition within the South African political realm has resulted in the ruling
party to ‘taking-a-knock’; where a transition in voter support was acknowledged in the recent Local
Government Elections (LGE). The result, motivation to further attain or ‘recruit’ ANC supporters by
enhancing their campaign and communicative methods; thus striving to surpass the ruling party’s liberation
influence.
of production for domestic and global market use. The advanced-economies of Western-Europe have
integrated liberalized trade policies to determine its factor endowments: "land, labour and capital" (Hiscox,
2017:78). These serve productions in the free-market capitalist system. Real-income provides influence of
these policies, which in-turn, decide income levels of socio-economic groups.
upon voters within a democracy has added to my understandings in identifying certain trends and patterns that
relate to voter perceptions and therefore behaviour in the 2016 Local Elections. Over the past decade, the
ruling party (ANC) has experienced a gradual motion of decline pertaining to not only their unethical
accountability of government as per our president Jacob Zuma and his associated cabinet, but also in terms of
the frustrations expressed amongst citizenry and voter satisfactions of reality settings throughout the broader
South Africa, emerging as a major factor in affecting their supporter’s frame within the recent local elections
(Booysen, 2016).
philosophers whom focussed on the integration of political liberty with the relationship found
between that of the individual, society and the state, by the means of power or authority. Both
of these political thinkers formed their arguments in their writings, namely; On Liberty (1859)
by Mill, and The Social Contract (1913) by Rousseau. On a more specific scale, their ideologies
were stark opposites, whereby Rousseau claims that people and individuals of society may only
acquire the entity of freedom through a transitioning process from the natural state to the civil
state, whereby they would have to conform to the general will as the common good. On the
other hand, Mill claims that society is more tyrannical over individual liberty, where he
believes that individuals should pursue their own self-liberty as dependency on the general will
is not always reliable.
interdependency of geographical significant states. These states are recognized as a single trading bloc,
reaching for greater political and economic incentives. In achieving this, the capitalist and intergovernmental
systems of member states merge as one. According to Malamud & Schmitter (2011:142), the efforts of
Europe emerging as a “regional trading hub”, the European Union (EU), is by far the most significant
attempt to establish regionalism in 20th-century markets.
took the podium at the New York-based institution of the United Nations General Assembly
(UNGA). In his speech, Trump provided global leaders and diplomats with a radically
different angle to view world politics, creating a divide between the “righteous many” and
“wicked few.” He deters away from the mainstream issues of climate change to more
realistically humanitarian concerns, where nation-states are currently being impacted and
threatened by international or domestic terror.