1. Breaking with tradition? South Africa–UK relations.
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Hornsby, David J. and Black, David R.
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BRITISH foreign relations ,TWENTIETH century ,20TH century democracy ,MIDDLE powers ,POST-apartheid era ,HISTORY ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Just over twenty years into its new era of democracy, South African foreign policy appears to be undergoing important changes in orientation and global positioning. Indeed, post-apartheid South African foreign policy has been steadily shifting away from a preoccupation with more traditional partnerships to developing alliances and coalitions with emerging economies and actors seeking to reform the global governance order. The paper seeks to understand the implications of this shift for South Africa's relationship with its most pivotal and enduring traditional ‘partner' – the United Kingdom. Thus, the paper proposes that this relationship can be best understood by considering it on different and at least partially contradictory levels, reflecting South Africa's own ambiguous identity as an emerging middle power. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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