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SUMMARY:GPE Research Cluster with Simone Claar: South African class relat
 ions and international trade
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DESCRIPTION:Please join the GPE Research Cluster for Simone Claar's "Sout
 h African class relations and international trade"\n\nThe South African 
 government freely joined the negotiations of an Economic Partnership Agr
 eement between the region and European Union in 2006. At the end of 2007
 \, they rejected signing the interim EPA. From 2010 to 2014 the South Af
 rican government rejoined the trade talks and brought back a new trade a
 greement. In October 2016 it entered provisionally into force. How can w
 e explain the contradictory negotiation process? In the presentation\, t
 he black box of the negotiation process based on a historical materialis
 t framework will open up. A class analysis focused on selected trade iss
 ues sheds light on the divergent roles of various classes and their dyna
 mics over time.\n\nDr. Simone Claar is a post-doctoral researcher at the
  Department of Political Science. She leads together with Dr. Franziska 
 Müller a BMBF funded junior research group “GLOCALPOWER: funds & tools f
 or a glocal renewable energy transition.” Her current research focuses o
 n "African capitalism and the state in the global economy’\, which inves
 tigates the contemporary mechanism of African capitalisms as well as its
  interrelation to green capitalism and development. Simone researched di
 fferent settings in Southern Africa\, in particular\, South Africa (Cent
 re of Civil Society\, South African Institute of International Affairs a
 nd University of Pretoria) and Zambia.\n\n\n
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LOCATION:4.214\, University Place\, Manchester
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