Opponents of the R4.5 billion property development at the confluence of the Liesbeek and Black rivers in Cape Town have sought an urgent interdict to prevent building going ahead. South Africa: River Club Was Not On Amazon's Short List - Court Papers Earlier this year, former Mayor Dan Plato told a local television investigation programme Carte Blanche, that should the objectors get their way, over 5,000 job opportunities would be lost, and a further 15,000 jobs lost in potential spin-offs. The development is being opposed by several civic and indigenous organisations on cultural and environmental grounds. Henstra states that in 2018, Amazon sent a request for proposals to a number of property companies for the development of its new regional headquarters in Cape Town.ĭHK assisted "several" of the companies to prepare their proposals, Henstra said that The River Club site was not one of the five sites on the list. This is revealed in an affidavit by founding partner and executive chairman of DHK Architects, Derick Henstra, which forms part of the Observatory Civic Association's legal challenge to the development at the confluence of the historic Liesbeek and Black rivers. The River Club site was not on Amazon's short list for its new regional headquarters. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, when American support for international cooperation is once again in question, Gilpin’s warnings about the risks of American unilateralism sound ever clearer.Papers before the Western Cape High Court have cast doubt on claims that thousands of jobs will be lost if the controversial U.S.$280.7 million property development at the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town, which includes corporate giant Amazon as an anchor tenant, does not go ahead, writes Steve Kretzmann for GroundUp.
Gilpin’s exposition of the in.uence of politics on the international economy was a model of clarity, making the book the centerpiece of many courses in international political economy. Exploring the relationship between politics and economics first highlighted by Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Gilpin demonstrated the close ties between politics and economics in international relations, outlining the key role played by the creative use of power in the support of an institutional framework that created a world economy. For Gilpin, a great power such as the United States is essential to fostering international cooperation.
In this book, Robert Gilpin argues that American power had been essential for establishing these institutions, and waning American support threatened the basis of postwar cooperation and the great prosperity of the period. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions - the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (now the World Trade Organization), the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund - were threatened by growing economic nationalism in the United States, as demonstrated by increased trade protection and growing budget deficits. After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. International Relations, Third Canadian Edition (3rd Edition): Goldstein, Joshua S., Pevehouse, Jon C., Whitworth, Sandra: 9780321714503: Books - Amazon.