Gerrit Olivier

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Russian Federation and Kazakhstan
. He is currently Extraordinary Professor in the Dept of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria.

Life

Olivier gained his doctorate from the University of Pretoria in the discipline of international politics. He subsequently became senior lecturer in political science at the University of Zululand before being appointed to the chair of International Politics at Pretoria.[1]

In 1983, he left academia to enter the diplomatic service of the apartheid government.

Russian Federation, also representing South Africa in Kazakhstan.[1]
In 1996 Olivier returned to his academic career and was appointed as director of the Centre for European Studies at what was then the Rand Afrikaans University. He was a founding member, and later president, for 8 years, of the South African Political Science Association, and first editor of Politikon – a journal in political science.
Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria. He remains involved in the study of Russian foreign and security policy and SA/Africa/Russian relations and is the founder and Chairman of the South African/Russian Dialogue Forum (SARDF). He wrote various books, chapters in books and articles on international relations,[1]
as well as op-ed articles for South African Newspapers, also commenting on radio and television on current events.

In 2013, Prof Oliver was awarded the Stals Award for political science from the "Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns".

References

  1. ^ a b c Gerrit Olivier.aspx Gerrit Olivier[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Davis, Gaye (8 December 1995). "Old guarder to write white paper". The Mail and Guardian. Retrieved April 10, 2023.
  3. OCLC 1226782973.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link
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  4. ^ Olivier, Gerrit (1982). "South Africa's response to shifting nuances in United States' foreign policy". Africa Insight. 12 (2): 85–88.
  5. S2CID 144032977
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