A multistakeholder foreign policy : dynamics of foreign policy making in post-apartheid South Africa (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

In the main, the study of South Africa’s post-apartheid foreign policy has been preoccupied with the examination of policy performance with comparatively little critical reflection on the role of actors within the so-called ‘black box’ of foreign policy decision-making. This analysis moves away from this particular approach by identifying the actors seeking an influence in the making of the ‘new’ South Africa’s foreign policy. The thesis contends that while South Africa’s post-apartheid presidents have maintained a predominant position at the centre of the decision-making process, this has not excluded influence from a number of stakeholders. Following South Africa’s democratic transition (1994), a growing number of state and non-state actors from the domestic and international milieu have been active in pursuing a position near the centre of the foreign policy process. Through a longitudinal analysis, covering the period 1994-2007, this thesis examines the role played by the presid...

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