Contributors review South Africa's international relations, examine principles, policies and practice of foreign policy, key actors and relationships with the rest of the world. Foreword by Nelson Mandela, Afterword by F.W. De Klerk. Gloss, apps, notes, tables, xii, 341pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Using documentary sources, this study looks at the extensive, secret contacts between South Africa and her neighbours during the apartheid years, and analyses how these relations paved the way for South Africa's emergence as an acceptable superpower. Contents: Introduction; South Africa's Foreign Policy System; Wind of Change: H.F. Verwoerd, 1958-66; What Rela-tions with Africa? B.J. Vorster, 1966-78; The Military in Command: P.W. Botha; 1978-89; New Diplomacy: F.W. de Klerk, 1989-94; Conclusion. BNS, 256pp, UK. IB TAURIS.

South Africa has found itself in a very complex situation post apartheid, with a central role in brokering peace processes across Africa. This book tracks its foreign policy since democracy, paying close attention to policy on conflict diamonds, the birth of Nepad, attitudes to the middle East conflicts and towards Zimbabwe. Bib, abbrev, 225pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Using South Africa as a case study, fifteen established and emerging scholars assess the extent to which democratic consolidation can be translated into the realm of foreign policy. BNS, 224pp, USA. LEXINGTON BOOKS, 073910585X

The interaction of France and South Africa has a problematic history. This study addresses the renewal initiated in both Paris and Pretoria, the changed political and economic relations and the impact of these approaches on Africa. Bib, notes, 179pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE, 1869190025

With the approval of the Director General of Foreign Affairs, SAIIA has published the officially prepared history of the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, covering the period from its founding to the run-up to the first democratic election. Contains 28 chapters divided into three parts: Part 1 relates the role of the Department and its officials in great and lesser events, as well as its development in the years between 1927 and 1948; Part 2 deals with 1948-1966; and Part 3 is a history of the Department itself, reflecting external events indirectly through the growth, organisation and management of the Department. Index, apps, 779pp, LIMITED SUPPLY, SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Foreign policy is widely regarded as one of the post-apartheid governments major areas of achievement, yet remains one of the most challenging. In this volume, leading scholars provide critical assessments of the conduct of South African foreign policy since 1994 against the background of six principles articulated by Nelson Mandela in a celebrated article published in the journal Foreign Affairs in 1993. And, the editors argue, to the extent that South African foreign policy has not been entirely cohesive, it reflects tensions and contradictions present in the 1993 principles right from the outset, resulting in a balancing act between enhancing the values of the global financial system on the one hand, and developing world partnerships on the other. Bib, 226pp, SOUTH AFRICA. INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL DIALOGUE.

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Provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral diplomacy in a variety of sub-regional, regional and international settings during the last decade. The book will interest scholars engaged in broad debates about multilateralism in International Relations as well as those analysing the rocesses of multilateral diplomacy. 232pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Account of the US Ambassador to South Africa of the role played by the US in facilitating a democratic dispensation. Notes, index, xix, 344pp, USA. UNITED STATES INSTITUTE FOR PEACE PRESS, 1929223366

Based on an analysis of Africa’s developmental challenges, this book interrogates current approaches to dealing with them from a South African perspective. Two premises underpin all contributions in the publication: that Africa needs to do more to help itself, and that contrary to much popular discourse, South Africa’s African trade strategy is fundamentally in harmony with Africa’s development interests. Building on this platform, the book considers how the South African government could more vigorously pursue this confluence of real development interests than it is at present. Index, gloss, tables, 198pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS.

Addresses changes in South Africa's strategies for regional cooperation and economic development since its transition from apartheid to democracy. Hentz focuses on why the new South African government continues to make regional cooperation a priority and what methods this dominant state uses to pursue its goals. While providing a synthetic overview of the history of regional cooperation in southern Africa, it considers the logic of cooperation more generally. Index, bib, notes, tables, 276pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An analysis of South African foreign policy from the onset of democratic transition to the contemporary period, focusing on African leadership in the context of transition and the challenges and opportunities the country faces. Gloss, notes, 90pp, USA. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

This collection offers overviews of key aspects of South Africa's attempts to bring various of Africa's wars and conflicts to an end, alongside analyses of its vigorous peace-making engagements in particular countries (Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast). It concludes with considerations of the exportability of the South African 'miracle' (notably with regard to the extent that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission experience can usefully be replicated elsewhere), principles of best practice and gendered involvement in peace-making, and the difficulties presented to South Africa's more noble goals by the country's simultaneous existence as an arms manufacturer and exporter of weapons to hot-spots of conflict around the continent and elsewhere in the world. 266pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

Explores contradictions and ambiguities within South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy. BNS, 208pp, USA. PRAEGER.