South Africa's Post Apartheid Foreign Policy: From Reconciliation to Revival?

by Alden,Chris

• ISBN13: 9780198530787
• ISBN10: 0198530781
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-01-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The book presents and analyzes 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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

Mbeki and the Foregn Policy of Consolidation

Reconfiguring foregn 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

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

Barundi

Engagement and disillusionment

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

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