Abstract
Post-apartheid South Africa is at the center of efforts to build greatly expended African self-help peacekeeping capacity. The study provides an important focus of analysis on South Africa's vision, ambitions and influence on the evolving practices of African security and sustained economic development. It is the concern of this study to relate and investigate the interplay between South Africa's own ambitions and willingness of other parties to encourage its leadership roles.
South Africa's political stability, military capacity and commitment to and African orientations in its foreign policy (as expressed in President Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance and the Millennium African Plan, now the New Partnership for Africa's Development) make it in the eyes of stakeholders the best hope to deliver "African solution to African problems." However, the verdict of this study must be that South Africa peacekeeping policy and practices to date—modest in its expressions and actions as it is—may represent the summit of ambitious in this field and not the threshold to a wider and fuller commitment.
Recommended Citation
Hailu, Solomon
(2005)
"The Making of South Africa's Foreign Policy Towards Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution in Africa: Choices, Constraints and Prospects,"
Journal of African Policy Studies: Vol. 11:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/joaps/vol11/iss1/4