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The study of international relations has often advanced by metaphor: images — some weak, some powerful — have become causeways which analysts use to explain the world and its ways.
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There are a number of studies in this vein. See for instance Deon Geldenhuys, The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making (Johannesburg: Macmillan for the South African Institute of International Affairs, 1990), 295 pp.
James Barber and John Barratt, South Africa’s Foreign Policy: The Search for Status and Security 1945–1988 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 398.
T.R.H. Davenport, South Africa: A Modern History (Third Edition) (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1987), 290.
See Ameka Anyaoka. ‘The Commonwealth and South Africa’, The South African Journal of International Affairs 1:1 (1993), 1–8.
C.J.A. Barratt, The United Nations and Southern Africa’, Thesaurus Acroasium, Vol II (1976), (The Law of the United Nations), Thessaloniki, Institute of International Public Law and International Relations of Thessaloniki, 177–254.
Andrew F. Cooper, Richard A. Higgott and Kim Richard Nossal, Relocating Middle Powers: Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993), 232.
Anton Harber and Barbara Ludman (eds), The Weekly Mail & Guardian A-Z of South African Politics (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1994), 9.
Chester A. Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighbourhood (London: W.W. Norton. 1992), 114–15.
See Deon Geldenhuys, ‘South Africa’s International Isolation’, International Affairs Bulletin, 11 (1987), 29–37.
The whole issue of South Africa’s nuclear programme has recently come under scrutiny. This follows upon the country’s accession to the NPT. See J.W. De Villers, R. Jardine and M. Riess, ‘Why South Africa Gave Up the Bomb’, Foreign Affairs 72:5 (November/December 1993), 98–109; Darryl
Howlett and John Simpson, ‘Nuclearisation and Denuclearisation in South Africa’, Surival 35:3, Autumn 1993, 154–73
David Albright, ‘South Africa: A Curious Conversion’, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 49:5, June 1993, 8–11.
See Peter Vale, review article: ‘Crocker’s Choice: Constructive Engagement and South Africa’s People’, South African Journal of International Affairs, 1:1, 1993, 100–6.
There is a lively literature on this period. As a point of entry, use Stephen Chan (ed), Exporting Apartheid: Foreign Policies in Southern Africa 1978–1988 (London: Macmillan, 1990), 374.
See Peter Vale, ‘“Whose World is it Anyway?”: International Relations in South Africa’, in Hugh C. Dyer and Leon Mangasarian (eds), The Study of International Relations: The State of the Art (London: Macmillan in association with Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 1989), 201–20.
Tom Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983), 8.
There is a fine description of this period in Chapter 9 of Alf Stadler, The Political Economy of Modern South Africa (London: Croom Helm, 1987), 141–60.
Peter Vale, ‘The Search for Southern Africa’s Security’, International Affairs, 67:4, October 1991, 697–708
See, for instance, Maxi van Aart, ‘Security for Southern Africa’, The South African Journal of International Affairs 1:1, 1993, 83–99.
See M.C.E. van Schoor, Senior History for South African Schools Standard 10 (Goodwood: Nasou Limited, 1979), 69–76.
A debatable account of these events is to be found in Chris Alden, ‘ANC Foreign Policy in Transition’, The South African Journal of International Affairs 1:1, 1993, 62–81.
Some of these issues are discussed in Peter Vale, ‘Reconstructing Regional Dignity’, in Steve Stedman (ed.), South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation (New York, Lynn Reinner, 1993), 287–11.
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Vale, P. (1997). South Africa: Understanding the Upstairs and the Downstairs. In: Cooper, A.F. (eds) Niche Diplomacy. Studies in Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_11
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