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    Diplomacy for development or doom? Epistemological reflections on Uganda's recentforeign policy achievements and blunders
    (Instituto de Estudios Internacionales Universidad de Chile, 2012-04) Baligidde, Samuel H.
    This article is guided by a triangulation of neo-realist and neo-liberalist post-modernist approaches to the analysis of foreign policy coupled with Rosenau's pre-theory and Allison's models of foreign policy decision- making using the decision units approach, among others. It seeks to stimulate reflection on the epistemological underpinnings of the new paradigm shifts in Uganda's foreign policy in recent times. Theories will assist in epistemologically conceptualizing issues and events, creating and setting standards and benchmarking conditions for meeting the new universalistic foreign policy paradigm or in answering academic and practical questions. It is contended that there has been a significant paradigm shift towards internationalism in the country's foreign policy to ward off increasing political dissent and emerging socio-economic challenges in the domestic arena.
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    Towards a Five-Step Institutional Income Diversification Strategy for Institutions of Higher Education
    (African Journals Online, 2010) Baligidde, Samuel H.
    This paper discusses the strategic perspectives of financial management which are highlighted in a five-step Institutional Income Diversification Model for Institutions of Higher Education. It focuses on the need for adopting or strengthening corporate principles of financial management, corporate methods of raising capital, establishment of income generating activities, strategic acquisitions, institutional mergers, establishment of commercial projects, treating higher education as an export and involving students and other stakeholders in the financial resource mobilization drive. It argues that, in order to tackle the challenge of inadequate funding, Institutions of Higher Education should re-examine their priorities, re-organize their financial management structures, re-orient their administrative processes and diversify their income sources. This will necessitate a change from the highly bureaucratic organizational design of most of the institutions to a corporate model that pays attention to market forces and private sector principles of financial management.