Chris Alden

South Africa's Post Apartheid Foreign Policy (eBook, PDF)

From Reconciliation to Revival?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The book presents and analyses South African foreign policy, from the onset of the democratic transition of Nelson Mandela in 1994 to the contemporary period. The focus of the study is on the question of South African leadership in the context of this transition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136055362
• Artikelnr.: 56886815

Autorenporträt

"Dr Chris Alden is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published widely on the international politics of Southern Africa, including Apartheid's Last Stand: the rise and fall of the South African Security State (Palgrave, 1996) and Mozambique and the Construction of the New African State (Palgrave, 2001). Dr Alden taught at the University of Witwatersrand from 1990 to 1999.
Dr Garth le Pere is the Executive Director of the Institute for Global Dialogue, based in Johannesburg and broadly concerned with research and analysis of South Africa's international relations. His areas of interest include South African foreign policy, regional integration in Southern Africa, issues of development and state-society relations in Africa and multilateral trade and international political economy. He has published in all these areas and also lectures at various South African universities.
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Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Mandela and the Foreign Policy of Transition
Constructing a new foreign policy
Transforming the instruments of foreign policy
Problems of implementation
Transformation and apartheid's legacies
Chapter 2 Mbeki and the Foreign Policy of Consolidation
Reconfiguring foreign policy
Decision
making structures: the changing bureaucratic context
The new system in operation: the enhanced presidency and the conduct of international relations
Assessing the foreign policy of consolidation
Chapter 3 South Africa, SADC and the Great Lakes Region: the Challenge of Conflict
Keeping SADC united
Working to resolve institutional problems
South Africa and the arc of crisis
Angola
Congo
Zimbabwe
Burundi
Engagement and disillusionment
Chapter 4 South Africa, Africa and the South: Leadership and Revival
South Africa and Southern Africa
Reflecting the positive: South Africa as a regional pivot
Reflecting the negative: tensions within SADC
South Africa and the African continent
Overhauling the OAU
South Africa and the south
Assessing South African leadership of Africa and the south
Conclusion South Africa and the Future
Notes.