South African foreign policy review Volume 1 / edited by Chris Landsberg and Jo-Ansie van Wyk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landsberg, Chris.

Van Wyk, Jo-Ansie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

South Africa--Foreign relations--Reviews.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The richness of public and academic discourses on the past, present and future direction of South Africas role in Africa and the world suggests that as a sub-discipline of politics, South African foreign policy is ready for a systematic and regular appraisal in the form of a series of publications that the Institute for Global Dialogue will call South African Foreign Policy Review. This is also because constant changes in international and domestic circumstances impinge on the management and analysis of South Africas foreign policy. This, the first review provides an important opportunity to build on existing foreign policy works in order to take stock of the road already travelled in the past decade or so. This is crucial in laying some basis for anticipating the countrys future role, and considering the opportunities and challenges, which future volumes of the review will consider. This volume provides a wide-ranging appraisal of the relationship between stated foreign policy goals and actual outputs and outcomes, an assessment of how foreign policy has actually been operationalized and implemented. To this end, common themes in South African foreign policy provide the framework for the first review. These include foreign policy decision-making; soft power dynamics in the foreign policys strategic calculus; diplomatic tools used economic diplomacy, peace diplomacy and paradiplomacy; South Africas relations with key states in Africa, in the global south and in the global north; South Africas approach to Africa multilateral, global multilateralism/governance. The review hopes to stimulate further discussion and thinking on the challenges confronted, and the future shape and direction of South Africas foreign policy.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Towards a post-apartheid South African foreign policy review / Chris Landsberg

Chapter 2. Opening the 'black box': South African foreign policy-making / Lesley Masters

Chapter 3. The international relations of South African provinces and municipalities: an appraisal of federated diplomacy / Siphamandla Zondi

Chapter 4. Soft power: the essence of South Africa's foreign policy / Karen Smith

Chapter 5. A review of South Africa's peace diplomacy since 1994 / Anthoni van Nieuwkerk

Chapter 6. South Africa's economic diplomacy in a changing global order / Brendan Vickers

Chapter 7. The evolving 'doctrine' of multilateralism in South Africa's Africa policy / David Monyae

Chapter 8. South Africa's relations with African anchor states / Nomfundo Xenia Ngwenya

Chapter 9. South Africa's foreign policy towards the global North / Gerrit Olivier

Chapter 10. South Africa and emerging powers / Francis Kornegay

Chapter 11. South Africa and East Asia: missed opportunties / Garth Shelton

Chapter 12. South Africa - North African relations: revisiting the bridging of a continent / Iqbal Jhazbhay

Chapter 13. Chasing after shadows or strategic integration? South Africa and global economic governance / Mzukisi Qobo

Chapter 14. Reflections on South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy and preliminary comments on future foreign policy / Jo-Ansie van Wyk.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on: volume 2; title from title page.

Latest volume consulted: volume 2.

ISBN:

9780798302586

0798302585

9780798302562

0798302569

OCLC:

828739246