South Africa's Post Apartheid Foreign Policy

Chris Alden

• Introduction -- Chapter 1 Mandela and the Foreign Policy of Transition -- Constructing a new foreign policy -- Transforming the instruments of foreign policy -- Problems of implementation -- Transformation and apartheid's legacies -- Chapter 2 Mbeki and the Foreign Policy of Consolidation -- Reconfiguring foreign policy -- Decision-making structures: the changing bureaucratic context -- The new system in operation: the enhanced presidency and the conduct of international relations -- Assessing the foreign policy of consolidation -- Chapter 3 South Africa, SADC and the Great Lakes Region: the Challenge of Conflict -- Keeping SADC united -- Working to resolve institutional problems -- South Africa and the arc of crisis -- Angola -- Congo -- Zimbabwe -- Burundi -- Engagement and disillusionment -- Chapter 4 South Africa, Africa and the South: Leadership and Revival -- South Africa and Southern Africa -- Reflecting the positive: South Africa as a regional pivot -- Reflecting the negative: tensions within SADC -- South Africa and the African continent -- Overhauling the OAU -- South Africa and the south -- Assessing South African leadership of Africa and the south -- Conclusion South Africa and the Future -- Notes.