Points of Re-Entry: Prospects for a Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy

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Title:	Points of Re-Entry: Prospects for a Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy
Author:	Vale, Peter
Year:	1991
Periodical:	South Africa International
Volume:	21
Issue:	4
Period:	April
Pages:	214-229
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	future foreign policy Development and Technology Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations
Abstract:	The article presents some thoughts on the question of how South Africa is to reenter the international community. The central preoccupation of a postapartheid South Africa will be with domestic reconstruction. Critical aspects of domestic reconstruction will have immense consequences for the country's foreign relations. The most obvious area is economic. What will be the prevailing economic philosophy of the government? What kinds of economic arrangements will the country reach with international economic groupings like the EC? If the new South Africa is not wracked by internal friction then it seems probable that a return to the normal State-to-State model of foreign affairs is possible. South Africa has the weight to lift the region (the SADCC countries) out of its present malaise. In this process, trade and other regional barriers will fall away and, over time, the region will come to resemble the EC. South Africa is also well-equipped to take advantage of access to African markets through agreements and other such mechanisms. Notes, ref.