Foreign Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent''s largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon.This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa''s post-Apartheid foreign policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from established Africa Western Asian and American scholars as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country''s foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa''s foreign policy; peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern Central West Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US China Britain France and Japan; the country''s key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS economic grouping; the African Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An essential resource for researchers the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies foreign policy history international relations international law security studies political economy and development studies.