Deon Geldenhuys
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deon Geldenhuys |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deon |
| FAMILY NAME | Geldenhuys |
| SIGNATURE | GELDENHUYS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Johannesburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
South Africa's world: Perspectives on diplomacy, international political economy, and international law
The weak domestic base of South Africa's good global citizenship
The self-appointed role of good international citizen that South Africa has played since 1994 is the external corollary of its supposed good governance at home. Weaknesses in domestic governance have, however, been evident since early in the life of democratic South Africa. These problems have become more acute, and internal dissatisfaction with and external awareness of ‘poor service delivery’ in South Africa have grown since 2009 when Jacob Zum…
The African Union, Responsible Sovereignty and Contested States
Post-colonial Africa has experienced relatively few contested states, defined as entities whose purported statehood is widely challenged by existing states. During the 1960s and 1970s the self-proclaimed states of Katanga, Biafra and Rhodesia encountered serious deficits in international recognition. The same fate befell the independent Bantustans created by South Africa. Today only the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Somaliland fall in this…
The Challenges of Good Global Citizenship: Ten Tenets of South Africa’s Foreign Policy
(2011). The Challenges of Good Global Citizenship: Ten Tenets of South Africa's Foreign Policy. Africa Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 179-199
Western Sahara
The life cycle of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR or Western Sahara) reveals striking similarities with Palestine’s contested statehood. Neither seceded from an existing state but each declared unilateral independence. Both entities’ claims to statehood received wide international recognition and their respective liberation movements enjoyed international legitimacy. However, in neither case has titular recognition been translated into…
Contested States in World Politics
This book investigates a phenomenon in world politics that is largely overlooked by scholars, namely entities lacking international recognition of their status as independent states. It includes case
Contested states in world politics
Contested states is the novel term used here for pretender states that fail to attract collective recognition through the UN. Lacking the 'birth certificate' of confirmed statehood, the non-recognized states are condemned to life in international limbo. Among them are Taiwan, Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Kosovo and Abkhazia. The degree of their diplomatic isolation varies, from Somaliland that has no formal recognition to Kosovo whose self-procla…
South Africa and Myanmar: Beware the politics of perfidy
The article examines the repressive actions of the government of Myanmar, focusing on its continuing incarceration of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and questions the diplomatic route South Africa has chosen in terms of its relations with the country
Pretoria and Pyongyang: Supping with sinners
Why is a country such as South Africa, which is respected in the international community, consorting with North Korea, one of the worse sinners among states
Deviant conduct in world politics
In modern world politics, the serious sinners are not only states. Terrorists, rebels, criminals and mercenaries also participate in the great game of who gets what, when and how. Deviant Conduct in World Politics introduces the sociological notion of deviance to study offensive conduct in international politics. It highlights the rules of good behaviour that both state and non-state actors have violated, and takes a novel approach to break throu…
The sins of Saddam
Whatever evidence emerges of Weapons of Mass Destruction in postwar Iraq, the fact remains that Iraq was the archetypal international rule‐breaker during Saddam Hussein's 24‐year dictatorship for transgressions ranging from WMD to genocide
Beyond the rogue state paradigm
(2002). Beyond the rogue state paradigm. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 75-88
Rebuilding the DRC
(2000). Rebuilding the DRC. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 43-50
The foreign factor in South Africa's 1992 referendum
South Africa has for decades been subjected to various types of international involvement in its domestic affairs, the object being to persuade or coerce Pretoria to abandon apartheid. The recent white referendum in South Africa marks a major departure from the past pattern of international involvement directed against the South African government; on this occasion, the world community aligned itself with the Government. The changing nature of ex…
FW de Klerk: A Study in Political Leadership
The study of political leadership involves far more than an examination of the public policies pursued by a leader, or of his political style. These are only two ingredients of what is a multi‐faceted phenomenon. Using Margaret Hermann's five ingredients of leadership as their framework for analysis, the authors offer a wide‐ranging discussion of the political leadership of President FW de Klerk. They emphasise that this is an exploratory study a…
Notes on the risks of policy analysis
Book notes/Boeknotas
RACE RELATIONS SURVEY. 1987/88. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. Index. Pp. 991. Alan R. Ball. 1987. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM. London: Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 268. Johann Mouton (red.) 1986. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER/SOSIALE WETENSKAP, MAATSKAPPY EN MAG. Pretoria: RGN. Pp. 144. Tzippi Hoffman en Alan Fischer. 1989. THE JEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT FUTURE? Johannesburg: Southern …
Book notes/Boeknotas
Gastrow, Shelagh 1988. WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS NUMBER TWO. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. (pp. 365. R25,95.) Paxton, John (Ed.) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR‐BOOK 1987–88, 124th Edition. London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1987, 1695 pp. Mueller, Dennis C. (Ed.) 1983. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH. New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 283. £19,50. Von Laue, Theodor. 1988. THE WORLD REVOLUTION OF WESTERNIZATION. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P…
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 92 - 93
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
South African reactions to the Nkomati accord: A house divided
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
its actual substantial assistance to corrupt and repressive regimes. In the same vein, the lack of special focus on U.S. economic interests as a motivating factor of foreign policy in Africa, particularly as regards South Africa, tends to diminish the significance of this volume. NA TO, the Warsaw Pact and Africa not only offers a 'study of NATO's involvement in Africa from the date of its inception', but also attempts to 'lay to rest some of the…
Aspects of political decision‐making in South Africa
This article presents a concise overview of the most important decision‐making structures in South Africa. It is clear from the article that the State Security Council and its substructures are the most important elements of the decision‐making process. Various political implications flowing from such evidence are identified, as well as alternate avenues for research into decision‐making processes
The destabilisation controversy: An analysis of a high‐risk foreign policy option for South Africa
In recent months relations between the states of the Southern African region have been racked by reciprocal and continuing accusations of destabilisation. This article is concerned first, with the definition of this evocative and loosely used concept and secondly, with the analysis of regional political and economic circumstance, underscoring the author's conclusion that mutual suspicion of attempts at destabilisation is plausible and valid
South Africa's black homelands: Some alternative political scenarios
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
its actual substantial assistance to corrupt and repressive regimes. In the same vein, the lack of special focus on U.S. economic interests as a motivating factor of foreign policy in Africa, particularly as regards South Africa, tends to diminish the significance of this volume. NA TO, the Warsaw Pact and Africa not only offers a 'study of NATO's involvement in Africa from the date of its inception', but also attempts to 'lay to rest some of the…
Aspects of political decision‐making in South Africa
This article presents a concise overview of the most important decision‐making structures in South Africa. It is clear from the article that the State Security Council and its substructures are the most important elements of the decision‐making process. Various political implications flowing from such evidence are identified, as well as alternate avenues for research into decision‐making processes
The destabilisation controversy: An analysis of a high‐risk foreign policy option for South Africa
In recent months relations between the states of the Southern African region have been racked by reciprocal and continuing accusations of destabilisation. This article is concerned first, with the definition of this evocative and loosely used concept and secondly, with the analysis of regional political and economic circumstance, underscoring the author's conclusion that mutual suspicion of attempts at destabilisation is plausible and valid
Die regionale opsie in Suid‐Afrika se buitelandse beleid: Die moontlikhede van nouer samewerking in die Suider‐Afrikaanse subsisteem
Although the promotion of regional cooperation is an old tenet in South Africa's Africa policy, Prime Minister PW Botha has accorded it a higher priority than previously. The realization of his designs for regional cooperation however face a number of formidable obstacles. This article sets out to examine a number of basic prerequisites for successful co‐operation in Southern Africa and in so doing focusses on various centrifugal and centripetal …
The weak domestic base of South Africa's good global citizenship
The self-appointed role of good international citizen that South Africa has played since 1994 is the external corollary of its supposed good governance at home. Weaknesses in domestic governance have, however, been evident since early in the life of democratic South Africa. These problems have become more acute, and internal dissatisfaction with and external awareness of ‘poor service delivery’ in South Africa have grown since 2009 when Jacob Zum…
The African Union, Responsible Sovereignty and Contested States
Post-colonial Africa has experienced relatively few contested states, defined as entities whose purported statehood is widely challenged by existing states. During the 1960s and 1970s the self-proclaimed states of Katanga, Biafra and Rhodesia encountered serious deficits in international recognition. The same fate befell the independent Bantustans created by South Africa. Today only the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and Somaliland fall in this…
FW de Klerk: A Study in Political Leadership
The study of political leadership involves far more than an examination of the public policies pursued by a leader, or of his political style. These are only two ingredients of what is a multi‐faceted phenomenon. Using Margaret Hermann's five ingredients of leadership as their framework for analysis, the authors offer a wide‐ranging discussion of the political leadership of President FW de Klerk. They emphasise that this is an exploratory study a…
Pretoria and Pyongyang: Supping with sinners
Why is a country such as South Africa, which is respected in the international community, consorting with North Korea, one of the worse sinners among states
The foreign factor in South Africa's 1992 referendum
South Africa has for decades been subjected to various types of international involvement in its domestic affairs, the object being to persuade or coerce Pretoria to abandon apartheid. The recent white referendum in South Africa marks a major departure from the past pattern of international involvement directed against the South African government; on this occasion, the world community aligned itself with the Government. The changing nature of ex…
Notes on the risks of policy analysis
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 92 - 93
South Africa's black homelands: Some alternative political scenarios
The South African National Party and the British government (1939–1961)
It is not uncommon that the ideas propagated by a political party in opposition are not implemented once the party has won power. The National Party Governments’ policies towards the United Kingdom since 1948 offer a clear illustration of a governing party's inability to realise its earlier aspirations. Political, economic and military realities set bounds to the National Party's intention of freeing South Africa of her overwhelming British fixat…
Lesotho en Suid‐Afrika‐ ‘n studie in waagpolitiek
Both internal and external environmental factors influencing foreign policy making in Lesotho impose severe restrictions on its ability to act purposefully in the international sphere. Being landlocked, underdeveloped and small, Lesotho is deeply dependent on South Africa for its mere existence. However, every tendency in the country's recent foreign policy points at the urgent desire to find ways and means that will enable it to loosen this depe…
Lesotho en Suid‐Afrika‐ ‘n studie in waagpolitiek
Both internal and external environmental factors influencing foreign policy making in Lesotho impose severe restrictions on its ability to act purposefully in the international sphere. Being landlocked, underdeveloped and small, Lesotho is deeply dependent on South Africa for its mere existence. However, every tendency in the country's recent foreign policy points at the urgent desire to find ways and means that will enable it to loosen this depe…
The South African National Party and the British government (1939–1961)
It is not uncommon that the ideas propagated by a political party in opposition are not implemented once the party has won power. The National Party Governments’ policies towards the United Kingdom since 1948 offer a clear illustration of a governing party's inability to realise its earlier aspirations. Political, economic and military realities set bounds to the National Party's intention of freeing South Africa of her overwhelming British fixat…
Die regionale opsie in Suid‐Afrika se buitelandse beleid: Die moontlikhede van nouer samewerking in die Suider‐Afrikaanse subsisteem
Although the promotion of regional cooperation is an old tenet in South Africa's Africa policy, Prime Minister PW Botha has accorded it a higher priority than previously. The realization of his designs for regional cooperation however face a number of formidable obstacles. This article sets out to examine a number of basic prerequisites for successful co‐operation in Southern Africa and in so doing focusses on various centrifugal and centripetal …
South Africa's black homelands: Some alternative political scenarios
The destabilisation controversy: An analysis of a high‐risk foreign policy option for South Africa
In recent months relations between the states of the Southern African region have been racked by reciprocal and continuing accusations of destabilisation. This article is concerned first, with the definition of this evocative and loosely used concept and secondly, with the analysis of regional political and economic circumstance, underscoring the author's conclusion that mutual suspicion of attempts at destabilisation is plausible and valid
Aspects of political decision‐making in South Africa
This article presents a concise overview of the most important decision‐making structures in South Africa. It is clear from the article that the State Security Council and its substructures are the most important elements of the decision‐making process. Various political implications flowing from such evidence are identified, as well as alternate avenues for research into decision‐making processes
South African reactions to the Nkomati accord: A house divided
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
its actual substantial assistance to corrupt and repressive regimes. In the same vein, the lack of special focus on U.S. economic interests as a motivating factor of foreign policy in Africa, particularly as regards South Africa, tends to diminish the significance of this volume. NA TO, the Warsaw Pact and Africa not only offers a 'study of NATO's involvement in Africa from the date of its inception', but also attempts to 'lay to rest some of the…
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
The Diplomacy of Isolation: South African Foreign Policy Making
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 92 - 93
Book notes/Boeknotas
Gastrow, Shelagh 1988. WHO'S WHO IN SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS NUMBER TWO. Johannesburg: Ravan Press. (pp. 365. R25,95.) Paxton, John (Ed.) THE STATESMAN'S YEAR‐BOOK 1987–88, 124th Edition. London: Macmillan Reference Books, 1987, 1695 pp. Mueller, Dennis C. (Ed.) 1983. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GROWTH. New Haven: Yale University Press. Pp. 283. £19,50. Von Laue, Theodor. 1988. THE WORLD REVOLUTION OF WESTERNIZATION. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P…
Notes on the risks of policy analysis
Book notes/Boeknotas
RACE RELATIONS SURVEY. 1987/88. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. Index. Pp. 991. Alan R. Ball. 1987. BRITISH POLITICAL PARTIES: THE EMERGENCE OF A MODERN PARTY SYSTEM. London: Macmillan. Pp. xviii, 268. Johann Mouton (red.) 1986. SOCIAL SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND POWER/SOSIALE WETENSKAP, MAATSKAPPY EN MAG. Pretoria: RGN. Pp. 144. Tzippi Hoffman en Alan Fischer. 1989. THE JEWS OF SOUTH AFRICA. WHAT FUTURE? Johannesburg: Southern …
FW de Klerk: A Study in Political Leadership
The study of political leadership involves far more than an examination of the public policies pursued by a leader, or of his political style. These are only two ingredients of what is a multi‐faceted phenomenon. Using Margaret Hermann's five ingredients of leadership as their framework for analysis, the authors offer a wide‐ranging discussion of the political leadership of President FW de Klerk. They emphasise that this is an exploratory study a…
The foreign factor in South Africa's 1992 referendum
South Africa has for decades been subjected to various types of international involvement in its domestic affairs, the object being to persuade or coerce Pretoria to abandon apartheid. The recent white referendum in South Africa marks a major departure from the past pattern of international involvement directed against the South African government; on this occasion, the world community aligned itself with the Government. The changing nature of ex…
Rebuilding the DRC
(2000). Rebuilding the DRC. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 43-50
Beyond the rogue state paradigm
(2002). Beyond the rogue state paradigm. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 75-88
The sins of Saddam
Whatever evidence emerges of Weapons of Mass Destruction in postwar Iraq, the fact remains that Iraq was the archetypal international rule‐breaker during Saddam Hussein's 24‐year dictatorship for transgressions ranging from WMD to genocide
Deviant conduct in world politics
In modern world politics, the serious sinners are not only states. Terrorists, rebels, criminals and mercenaries also participate in the great game of who gets what, when and how. Deviant Conduct in World Politics introduces the sociological notion of deviance to study offensive conduct in international politics. It highlights the rules of good behaviour that both state and non-state actors have violated, and takes a novel approach to break throu…
Pretoria and Pyongyang: Supping with sinners
Why is a country such as South Africa, which is respected in the international community, consorting with North Korea, one of the worse sinners among states
South Africa and Myanmar: Beware the politics of perfidy
The article examines the repressive actions of the government of Myanmar, focusing on its continuing incarceration of a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and questions the diplomatic route South Africa has chosen in terms of its relations with the country
Western Sahara
The life cycle of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR or Western Sahara) reveals striking similarities with Palestine’s contested statehood. Neither seceded from an existing state but each declared unilateral independence. Both entities’ claims to statehood received wide international recognition and their respective liberation movements enjoyed international legitimacy. However, in neither case has titular recognition been translated into…
Contested States in World Politics
This book investigates a phenomenon in world politics that is largely overlooked by scholars, namely entities lacking international recognition of their status as independent states. It includes case
Contested states in world politics
Contested states is the novel term used here for pretender states that fail to attract collective recognition through the UN. Lacking the 'birth certificate' of confirmed statehood, the non-recognized states are condemned to life in international limbo. Among them are Taiwan, Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Kosovo and Abkhazia. The degree of their diplomatic isolation varies, from Somaliland that has no formal recognition to Kosovo whose self-procla…
The Challenges of Good Global Citizenship: Ten Tenets of South Africa’s Foreign Policy
(2011). The Challenges of Good Global Citizenship: Ten Tenets of South Africa's Foreign Policy. Africa Review: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 179-199
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