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Summary:

The richness of public and academic discourses on the past, present and future direction of South Africa's 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 Africa's 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 country's 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 policy's strategic calculus; diplomatic tools used, economic diplomacy, peace diplomacy and paradiplomacy; South Africa's relations with key states in Africa, in the global south and in the global north; South Africa's 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 Africa's foreign policy.

Table of 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.

Contributors:

Landsberg, Chris

Van Wyk, Jo-Ansie

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: South African foreign policy review > Volume 1 (Pretoria : Africa Institute of South Africa, 2012 — ISBN 9780798302913)

Subjects:

South Africa — Foreign relations — Reviews

Genres:

Bibliographies

Reviews

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DT1803 .S68 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780798302586 (electronic bk.)
0798302585 (electronic bk.)
9780798302562 (electronic bk.)
0798302569 (electronic bk.)
0798302917 (Trade Paper)
9780798302913 (Trade Paper)
9781299680050 (MyiLibrary)
1299680054 (MyiLibrary)
9780798302913 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

828739246

Other Control Numbers:

EBC1996900 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp10249189