External and domestic sources of foreign policy ambiguity: South African foreign policy and the projection of pluralist middle power

Bischoff, Paul, 1954-

Title: External and domestic sources of foreign policy ambiguity: South African foreign policy and the projection of pluralist middle power
Creator: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
Date Issued: 2003
Date: 2003
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161442
Identifier: vital:40627
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1080/0258934032000147291
Description: As a pluralist middle power, post-apartheid South Africa seeks to generate successful foreign policy initiatives at bilateral, multilateral and regional levels in order to shape international outcomes. In this endeavour, it has three important political resources – a recognition of its geo-political position and importance as a democratic yardstick and reformer; its acceptance of a transnational, neo-liberal elite alliance and finally, recognition of its leadership role from forces wishing to challenge African political establishments. However, the international and domestic political environment which in the mid-1990s was favourable towards middle-power initiative and reform has narrowed.
Format: 22 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Politikon
Relation: Bischoff, P.H., 2003. External and domestic sources of foreign policy ambiguity: South African foreign policy and the projection of pluralist middle power. Politikon, 30(1), pp.183-201
Relation: Politikon volume 30 number 1 183 201 June 2010 1470-1014
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