Toward a Developmental Foreign Policy? Challenges for South Africa's Diplomacy in the Second Decade of Liberation.

Part of a special section on South Africa since the collapse of the apartheid regime in 1994. South Africa's policymakers should engage the international community in a way that deliberately tries to help address its precarious domestic condition. This developmental foreign policy should be pro-en...

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Published in:Social Research Vol. 72; no. 3; pp. 723 - 757
Main Author: Landsberg, Chris
Format: Article
Published: New School for Social Research Fall 2005
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Summary:Part of a special section on South Africa since the collapse of the apartheid regime in 1994. South Africa's policymakers should engage the international community in a way that deliberately tries to help address its precarious domestic condition. This developmental foreign policy should be pro-engagement rather than isolationist and should seek resources and resource transfers to engage in redistribution to help address domestic, continental, and global disparities and inequalities. Such resource transfers can come about only through engaging with the outside world.