Foreign policy in post-apartheid South Africa : security, diplomacy and trade / edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kudrat Virk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adebajo, Adekeye, 1966- editor.

Virk, Kudrat, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

South Africa--Foreign relations--21st century.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 500 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.

Summary:

South Africa is the most industrialised power in Africa and is the only African member of the G-20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is limited scholarship on South Africa's security, trade and diplomatic role within and beyond Africa over the last two and a half decades. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy. Over its 24 chapters - and with contributions from established African, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy; peacemaking; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). An essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international relations, international law, security studies, political economy and development studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Key Themes in South Africa's Foreign Policy

1 The Domestic Imperatives of South Africa's Foreign Policy 51

2 South Africa's Peacemaking Efforts in Africa: Ideas, Interests and Influence 69

3 South Africa's Defence and Security Role: Unravelling the Defence Predicament 93

4 Human Rights in South Africa's Foreign Policy: A Light or a Liability? 112

5 South Africa's Corporate Expansion: Towards an "SA Inc." Approach in Africa 131

Part II South Africa's Key Bilateral Relations in Africa

6 South Africa in Southern Africa: Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe 153

7 South Africa in the Great Lakes: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda 172

8 South Africa in West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire 186

9 South Africa in Eastern Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Sudan/South Sudan 214

10 South Africa in North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia 237

Part III South Africa's Key Multilateral Relations in Africa

11 South Africa and the Southern African Development Community 259

12 South Africa in the Southern African Customs Union 274

13 South Africa and the African Union 290

Part IV South Africa's Key External Bilateral Relations

14 South Africa and the United States: A Pragmatic Friendship 311

15 South Africa and Britain: "An Emerging Power and an Old Friend" 337

16 South Africa and France: A Rising Versus a Declining Power? 356

17 South Africa and China: Solidarity and Beyond 375

Part V South Africa's Key External Multilateral Relations

18 South Africa and the United Nations 395

19 South Africa and the World Trade Organisation 411

10 South Africa; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group; and the European Union 428

21 South Africa and the BRICS 449

Part VI Concluding Reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788310826

1788310829

9781788310833

1788310837

OCLC:

1004842595