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Title: | Emerging South African Perspectives on Regional Cooperation and Integration after Apartheid |
Author: | Davies, Robert H. |
Year: | 1992 |
Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
Issue: | 20 |
Pages: | 75-87 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa South Africa |
Subjects: | international economic relations common markets Development and Technology Economics and Trade Inter-African Relations Politics and Government |
External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/201/OBJ/download |
Abstract: | Despite the superficial appearance of consensus and some overlap in the use of language and terminology, significantly different perspectives have, in fact, emerged between different forces in South Africa on the terms, principles and approaches to govern a programme of closer regional economic cooperation and integration after apartheid. Future South African policy on this issue can thus be expected to depend to a considerable extent on the balance of forces established in the negotiation process now underway. This paper critically examines some of the major perspectives emerging in South Africa on this issue. It characterizes the broad thrust of the main alternative approaches that are emerging against the background of an analysis of the current crisis in the pattern of regional interaction established in the period since the end of World War II. It then evaluates the capacity of the major forces in South Africa to produce policies capable of building a new pattern of relations between a postapartheid South Africa and the rest of the region that is equitable, sustainable and growth orientated. Two trends can be identified in the region: the trend to promote closer regional cooperation and integration based on principles of equity, interdependence and mutual benefit; and the trend towards bilateral deals based on a 'pragmatic extension' of existing relations. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |