Democratizing Foreign Policy?: Lessons from South AfricaPhilip Nel, Janis Van der Westhuizen Lexington Books, 2004 - 225 pages Are ordinary citizens capable of shaping foreign policy? To answer this question, fifteen established and emerging scholars use South Africa as a case study to assess the extent to which democratic consolidation can be translated into the realm of foreign policy. Contributors discuss the South African Development Community as an arena of transnational democracy, the impact of European Union trade policy, and the significance of South Africa's controversial 'arms deals' as they explore the opportunities and constraints facing recently democratized societies in the Southern Hemisphere. Democratizing Foreign Policy? Lessons from South Africa provides a broad-ranging assessment--investigating conceptual issues regarding the role of women, think tanks, civil society, labor movements, and the impact of globalization upon the process of foreign policy making--of the opportunities and challenges involved in opening the process of foreign policy making to civil society and the need to do so if the developing world is to better manage the complexities of globalization. |
Contents
International Causes and Consequences of South Africas Democratization Audie Klotz | 13 |
The Democratization of South African Foreign Policy Critical Reflections on an Untouchable Subject Ian Taylor | 23 |
Democracy Participation and Foreign Policy Making in South Africa Philip Nel JoAnsie van Wyk and Kristen Johnsen | 39 |
Civil Society and Foreign Policy Garth le Pere and Brendan Vickers | 63 |
Women and the Making of South Africas Foreign Policy Maxi Schoeman and Yolande Sadie | 81 |
Labor Social Movements and South Africas Foreign Economic Policy Patrick Bond | 97 |
The Democratization of Trade PolicyThe SAEU Trade Development and Cooperation Agreement Talitha BertelsmannScott | 123 |
Democracy Development Security and South Africas Arms Deal David R Black | 137 |
The Challenge of Transnational Democracy and the Southern African Development Community Pierre du Toit | 157 |
Democratic Participation in Foreign Policy and Beyond An Outline of Options Janis van der Westhuizen and Philip Nel | 169 |
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