South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy five years on - From Pariah state to 'just another country'?

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Volumn , Issue 352, 1999, Pages 629-634

  Vale, Peter ^a   Taylor, Ian ^a  

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EID: 0040366657     PISSN: 00358533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/750459615     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. The 'just another country' thesis derives from Jack Spence, 'On Becoming Just Another Country', World Today, Vol 53, No 3, March 1997.
2. For an example of such an approach, see Jo-Ansie van Wyk, 'The External Relations of South African Sub-national Governments', paper presented at South African Political Studies Association Conference, Mmabatho, South Africa, 8-10 October 1997.
3. See Ian Taylor, 'Beijing or Taipei? The Transforming of South Africa's Relations with the People's Republic of China and the Debate on the "Two Chinas" Issues', Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 8, No 2, 1997.
4. For a good account, see Maxi van Aardt, 'A Foreign Policy to Die For: South Africa's Responses to the Nigerian Crisis', Africa Insight, Vol 26, No 2, 1996.
5. See Horace Campbell, 'SADC Heads at Loggerheads?', Southern African Political and Economic Monthly, Vol 10, No 12, October 1997.
6. Representative examples being James Barber and John Barratt, South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945-1988, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; Jack Spence (ed), Change in South Africa, Royal Institute of Internal Affairs and Pinter, London, 1994; and F. H. Toase and E. J. Yorke (eds), The New South Africa: Prospects for Domestic and International Security, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998.
7. Representative examples being James Barber and John Barratt, South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945-1988, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; Jack Spence (ed), Change in South Africa, Royal Institute of Internal Affairs and Pinter, London, 1994; and F. H. Toase and E. J. Yorke (eds), The New South Africa: Prospects for Domestic and International Security, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998.
8. Representative examples being James Barber and John Barratt, South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security, 1945-1988, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990; Jack Spence (ed), Change in South Africa, Royal Institute of Internal Affairs and Pinter, London, 1994; and F. H. Toase and E. J. Yorke (eds), The New South Africa: Prospects for Domestic and International Security, Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998.
9. Such an analysis is inherent in Gerrit Olivier and Deon Geldenhuys, 'South Africa's Foreign Policy: From Idealism to Pragmatism', Business and the Contemporary World, Vol 9, No 2, 1997.
10. Paul Williams and Ian Taylor, 'Neo-Liberalism, "Common Sense" and the Political Economy of the "New" South Africa', unpublished paper, March 1999.
11. See Philip Nel, Ian Taylor and Janis van der Westhuizen, 'Multilateralism in South Africa's Foreign Policy: The Search for a Critical Rationale', paper presented at European Consortium for Political Research/International Studies Association conference, Vienna, Austria, 16-19 September 1998.
12. Jack Spence, 'The New South African Foreign Policy: Moral Incentives and Political Constraints', ISSUP Bulletin, No 1, 1998.
13. For a good start on this project, see Anthony Leysens, Souther Africa: The Case for a Coxian Approach, Southern African Perspectives, No 74, Bellville, Centre for Southern African Studies, University of the Western Cape, Bellville.
14. The business press has been particularly active in this attempt - see eg, 'A Matter of Interest: Our New Diplomacy Must Not Bother with Settling Old Scores', Financial Mail, Vol 132, issue 9, 27 May 1994.
15. For an account of how the ANC has become socialized into the ongoing neoliberalist discourse, see Hein Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change - The Political Economy of Transformation, Zed Books, London, 1998.
16. Ken Booth and Peter Vale, 'Security in Southern Africa: After Apartheid, Beyond Realism', International Affairs, Vol 71, No 2, 1995.
17. For what a reflexive framework would consist of, see Mark Neufeld, The Restructuring of International Relations Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995.
18. A notable exception is the work of Maxi van Aardt (now Schoeman), who has attempted to put gender central to any discussion of what 'security' means in the South African context. See eg, 'In Search of a More Adequate Concept of Security in Southern Africa: Do We Need a Feminist Touch?', Politikon, Vol 20, No 1, 1993. There are also a (growing) number of Cape-based academics writing from a non-traditional, critical perspective.
19. A useful start has been made in an article trying to seek out what the people think of South Africa's foreign policy and what they think should be different - see Philip Nel, 'The Foreign Policy Beliefs of South Africans: A First Cut', Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Vol 17, No 1, 1999.