Foreign political engagement : remaking states in the post-Cold War world / Deon Geldenhuys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geldenhuys, Deon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intervention (International law).

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

Physical Description:

viii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

The 1990s have witnessed several major external initiatives to reshape the domestic political arrangements of countries. Because these have been collective foreign ventures, usually with the active collaboration of the target countries, the term" intervention" is ill-suited. Instead, Deon Geldenhuys introduces the notion of foreign political engagement to describe international attempts at remaking countries in the image of the West. South Africa, Kenya, Somalia, Russia, Cambodia, El Salvador and Haiti serve as case studies to demonstrate this important theoretical rethinking of international relations today.

Contents:

1 Traditional Conceptions of Intervention 4

2 The Post-Cold War World 18

3 From Intervention to Foreign Political Engagement 40

4 South Africa 73

5 Kenya 100

6 Somalia 124

7 Russia 151

8 Cambodia 179

9 El Salvador 202

10 Haiti 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-320) and index.

ISBN:

0312215029

OCLC:

39101883