South African Foreign Policy Review: Vol

Chris Landsberg, Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Chris Landsberg, Jo-Ansie van Wyk

• Publisher: Africa Institute of South Africa
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780798302913
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780798302586
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• About the contributors
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Chapter 1 - Towards a post-apartheid South African foreign policy review
• Chapter 2 - Opening the ‘black box’
• Chapter 3 - The international relations of South African provinces and municipalities
• Chapter 4 - Soft power
• Chapter 5 - A review of South Africa’s peace diplomacy since 1994
• Chapter 6 - South Africa’s economic diplomacy in a changing global order
• Chapter 7 - The evolving ‘doctrine’ of multilateralism in South Africa’s Africa policy
• Chapter 8 - South Africa’s relations with African anchor states
• Chapter 9 - South Africa’s foreign policy towards the global North
• Chapter 10 - South Africa and emerging powers
• Chapter 11 - South Africa and East Asia
• Chapter 12 - South Africa–North African relations
• Chapter 13 - Chasing after shadows or strategic integration?
• Chapter 14 - Reflections on South Africa’s post-apartheid foreign policy and preliminary comments on future foreign policy
• Back cover