The FOREIGN POLICY FORUM: REGIONAL POWERS IN GLOBAL POLITICS
accompanies SOUTH AFRICA's membership in the UN Security Council
during 2019-2020. It consists of a series of six roundtables each
dedicated to a particular theme. The overarching topic is the role of
regional POWERS IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS WHICH IS CHARACTERISED BY A RETURN
OF GREAT POWER POLITICS AND EROSION OF MULTILATERALISM. Each
roundtable consists of a select group of local and INTERNATIONAL
EXPERTS. The Foreign Policy Forum is sponsored by the KONRAD ADENAUER
FOUNDATION (KAS). This first roundtable is discussing the ‘demise’
of international law and multilateralism. Questions the roundtable
will be addressing are: to which extent is there a
qualitative/quantitative decline of international law and if there is
how is Africa affected by it? Are we returning to a Hobbesian state of
world affairs in which authority and not wisdom makes law and finally
what role are regional powers playing are they guardians of
multilateralism or become followers of great power?
PROGRAMME:
OPENING:
Henning Suhr (KAS-South Africa)
Prof Malte Brosig (Wits, IR Dep.)
ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS:
Dr Martin Schaefer, Ambassador of Germany
Amb Lallie, DIRCO
Prof Dire Tladi, (University of Pretoria, Law School)
Prof Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango (Wits Law School)
Natalie Zahringer (Wits IR Dep.)
Ottilia Maunganidze (Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria)
MODERATORS:
Dr Mopeli Moshoeshoe & Prof Malte Brosig (Wits IR Dep.)
CLOSING WORDS:
Dr Mopeli Moshoeshoe
RECEPTION
politics
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