The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making

Geldenhuys, Deon

doi:10.5771/0506-7286-1986-1-92

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“…These actions are similar to those instigated in 1977 when the European Council concluded that it was inadmissible for Israel to acquire territory by force demanding that Israel recognise “the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people” (Geldenhuys, 1984: 74). It should be noted, however, that condemnation of Israel by the UNSC was less harsh in tone and substance than that of the UNGA.…”

Section: Historical Account In Foreign Policy Changes: South Africa–i...mentioning

confidence: 56%

“…Another significant aspect of this relationship was seen in the 1970s when Israel experienced an isolation period more like that of South Africa simply because African states condemned the Arab‐Israeli war in 1973. Just as this period saw oil embargoes being imposed on South Africa, other measures included 1968's United Nations Security Council (UNSC) issue of Jerusalem and Israel's intention to transform the lawful status of the city and in 1976, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa deemed Israel guilty of war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) (Geldenhuys, 1984: 74).…”

Section: Historical Account In Foreign Policy Changes: South Africa–i...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the same year, Israel absented itself from anti‐apartheid votes at the UN meetings (Chazan, 1983: 175). By means of no surpirse, Vorster's official visit to Israel was considered a diplomatic coup for South Africa (Geldenhuys, 1984). The support “of Zionism was a cheap price to pay for Jewish silence on Apartheid” timeously (Bishku, 2017: 155).…”

Section: Historical Account In Foreign Policy Changes: South Africa–i...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Consistency and inconsistency in the foreign policy of the Republic of South Africa towards Israel

Rapanyane

2021

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The subject of South Africa‐Israel relations has always been a considerable scholarly topic that is amongst the ongoing academic and policy makers' debates. This is because of the uncertainties and confusion that exists in South Africa's foreign policy stance on Israel in the contemporary period. In this secondary data‐based research article, the author analyses the historical relations between South Africa and Israel with Palestine in question. The central aim is to analyse the consistencies and inconsistencies historically and contemporarily shown by South Africa's foreign policy towards Israel. The article looked at the pre‐and post‐apartheid governments' foreign policy positions. The author argued that there is no gainsaying that South Africa had good relations with Israel during apartheid. These relations only became unstable when South Africa adopted democracy, but scholars still observe a lot of uncertainties on South Africa's Israeli foreign policy stance, particularly in the context of Palestine in question. This is especially in economic and political links which still exist between the two countries. Afrocentricity as a theoretical lens has been adopted. The results show that whilst the pre‐democratic apartheid government enjoyed good relations with Israel; the new democratic government has continuously had unstable relations with Israel. The article concluded that whilst the African National Congress (ANC) government is policy conflicted on relations with Israel; it though enjoys economic engagement with their so‐called internationally condemned apartheid Israel. The initial recommendation made was that the new democratic ANC government should make a firm policy stance on Israel to clear any policy confusion.

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2021

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“…Compared with the apartheid era's 'diplomacy of isolation' (Geldenhuys 1984), South Africa's transition to a multiracial democratic order in 1994 opened a heady new chapter in the country's international relations. The political transition also created new opportunities for South -South development cooperation, especially with African and other developing world partners.…”

Section: Mapping South Africa's Development Cooperationmentioning

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Towards a new aid paradigm: South Africa as African development partner

Vickers

2012

Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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“…During the apartheid period, the international community regarded South Africa as a pariah, and its foreign policy was termed the 'diplomacy of isolation' (Geldenhuys 1984). From its inception as an independent entity in 1910 to the end of minority rule in 1994, South African governments assumed an interventionist attitude towards the 'African hinterland'.…”

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Regional power South Africa: Co-operative hegemony constrained by historical legacy

Flemes

2009

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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This article argues that regional powers can be distinguished by four pivotal criteria: claim to leadership, power resources, employment of foreign policy instruments, and acceptance of leadership. Applying these criteria to the South African case, the crucial significance of institutional foreign policy instruments for the power over policy outcomes at the regional and global level is demonstrated. But although Pretoria is ready to pay the costs of co-operative hegemony (capacity building for regional institutions and peacekeeping for instance), the regional acceptance of South African leadership is constrained by its historical legacy. Additionally Pretoria's foreign policy is based on ideational resources such as its reputation as an advocate of democracy and human rights and its paradigmatic behaviour as a 'good global citizen' with the according legitimacy. The Mbeki presidency was more successful in converting these resources into discursive instruments of interest-assertion in global, than in regional bargains. In effect the regional power's reformist south-oriented multilateralism is challenging some of the guiding principles of the current international system.

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The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making

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Consistency and inconsistency in the foreign policy of the Republic of South Africa towards Israel

Consistency and inconsistency in the foreign policy of the Republic of South Africa towards Israel

Towards a new aid paradigm: South Africa as African development partner

Regional power South Africa: Co-operative hegemony constrained by historical legacy

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