Resistance by Capitulation? Elite Strategies and Popular Struggles to shape the Impact of Aid in South Africa.

The relationship between North and South - whether in terms of donor aid, debt, trade, investment, or political relations - is subject to diverse interpretations when it comes to post-apartheid South Africa. Pretoria, indeed, attempts to make its own mark on international politics and economics. This paper addresses several conceptual and practical questions: How important are aid and debt to the power relations that are contributing to untenable social, economic and environmental imbalances in the world? Are elites from First and Third Worlds proposing reforms that are meaningful? What particular role has South Africa played as both recipient and reformer of international financial flows? How does this relate to the broader map of international political ideology that has emerged the past few years, particularly the tensions between the Washington Consensus, Post-Washington Consensus and Third World nationalist revival? Are global justice movements from South Africa and Africa making coherent counterhegemonic arguments, and do their strategies, tactics and alliances have potential? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]