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South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy has been a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities. The accession by leading fractions of the African National Congress to the ongoing discourse of neo-liberalism has led to the policy making elite playing to two distinct audiences: its Leftist-inclined constituency within the Government of National Unity and externally oriented domestic and international capital. This second audience is increasingly integrating the GNU elite into a group which more and more reflects the concerns, aspirations, and demands of a transnational class elite. This move mirrors South Africa's ongoing incorporation into the international political economy as a global middle-power, a bridgebuilder between the global hegemons and those reluctant to follow their lead.
Taylor's fundamental theoretical approach that underpins the study--namely a neo-gramscian interpretation of the global political economy and the importance of middle powers--sets it apart from other studies of contemporary South African foriegn policy making. He also provides a useful source for Africanists and South Africa specialists in particular. This is partly because of the accessible style of presentation. But it is also because he has chosen case studies of interaction with multilateral groupings and organizations. This approach marks the volume out as being different from the normal assessment of South African foreign policy--particularly the specific multilateral agencies that he has chosen to focus on.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Hegemony, Middlepowermanship, and Multilateralism
Neo-liberalism as a Hegemony Project
Neo-liberalism, Hegemonic, and Post-Apartheid South Africa
From Redistribution to Hegemonic Norms: Constraints and Contradictions
Multilateralism, Middlepowermanship and Neo-liberalism: South African Foreign Policy
South Africa and the World Trade Organisation
South Africa and the Cairns Group
South Africa and UNCTAD IX
South Africa and the Non-Aligned Movement
South Africa and the Commonwealth
Middlepowermanship and the Continuing Compromise
Bibliography
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Ian Taylor writes about an Egyptian girl who becomes a queen due to her goddess. The cat goddess based in ancient Egypt and being reborn in Victorian times.
