Garth Le Pere
Biographic Data
| ID | 1461647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Garth Le Pere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Garth |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Pere |
| SIGNATURE | LE PERE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
South Africa
South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has conducted its foreign policy under the ruling African National Congress. Its external relations derive their log…
Southern multilateralism from Ibsa to NDB
The shifting nature of contemporary global politics highlights the growing contestation about power and how it is distributed, with multipolarity as its hallmark and distinguishing feature. Amid the shift to multipolarity, new forms of multilateralism are emerging from the South, which are grounded in ‘institutional arrangements led by countries of the Global South’ in terms of the origin of initiatives, the drivers of such arrangements and the r…
Protest in South Africa
Facing the New Millennium
This chapter examines the processes, institutions and actors which govern and determine the manner in which foreign policy has been made in South Africa since 1994. Post-apartheid South Africa has emerged in a changed and uncertain world, marked by contradictory tendencies and impulses. The leitmotif governing South Africa’s foreign policy has been labelled ‘universality,’ essentially the opening of foreign and local doors in the same reconciliat…
The Role of China in Africa’s Industrialization
The economies of Africa require urgent structural transformation and the great challenge is how industrial development can aid this transformation process. China’s ability to sustain high productivity growth was underpinned by resource allocation from low-to-high productive sectors and this was the essence of its own modernization processes. Most African countries remain highly reliant on commodity exports in a depressed global environment, exace…
Laying the BRICS of a new global order
As an informal coalition of emerging powers, the grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) represents a geo-political entity of great significance in the fluid and dynamic
The Past as Prologue
Africa’s Triple Quest
It is with a dose of nostalgia that one recalls the halcyon days when the voices of African scholars resonated in debates about the currents and trends that shaped the different prisms through which Africa was viewed. Refreshing but critical appraisals were offered in an intellectual mix that was mostly dominated by a hegemonic epistemology originating in the West, primarily in the United States, France, and Britain. The terms of contestation oft…
South Africa in Africa
South Africa's role in Africa since its democratic transition has been mired in controversy and characterised by differing interpretations. While it has wrestled ambivalently about constructing an African identity in the Mandela years, President Mbeki has firmly located South Africa's interests in Africa. The normative foundations of its Africa engagement with regard to providing public goods and leadership in peace diplomacy, resolving conflicts…
Afro-Chinese relations
A detailed look at the historical and recent developments leading to the current Afro‐Sino relationship and the implications it has for South‐South relations in a changing global order
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy
This article focuses on South Africa's rehabilitation from international pariah status during the apartheid years to its de facto status as leader of the African continent. Its ambitious foreign policy agenda and the pan-African revivalism of Mbeki are discussed in the context of the many constraints (the need to attract foreign investment, limited institutional capacity, ambiguities over the nature of South Africa's identity) that circumscribe i…
Du paria au partenaire
South Africa in Africa
South Africa's role in Africa since its democratic transition has been mired in controversy and characterised by differing interpretations. While it has wrestled ambivalently about constructing an African identity in the Mandela years, President Mbeki has firmly located South Africa's interests in Africa. The normative foundations of its Africa engagement with regard to providing public goods and leadership in peace diplomacy, resolving conflicts…
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy
This article focuses on South Africa's rehabilitation from international pariah status during the apartheid years to its de facto status as leader of the African continent. Its ambitious foreign policy agenda and the pan-African revivalism of Mbeki are discussed in the context of the many constraints (the need to attract foreign investment, limited institutional capacity, ambiguities over the nature of South Africa's identity) that circumscribe i…
The Role of China in Africa’s Industrialization
The economies of Africa require urgent structural transformation and the great challenge is how industrial development can aid this transformation process. China’s ability to sustain high productivity growth was underpinned by resource allocation from low-to-high productive sectors and this was the essence of its own modernization processes. Most African countries remain highly reliant on commodity exports in a depressed global environment, exace…
Laying the BRICS of a new global order
As an informal coalition of emerging powers, the grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) represents a geo-political entity of great significance in the fluid and dynamic
Du paria au partenaire
South Africa's post-apartheid foreign policy
This article focuses on South Africa's rehabilitation from international pariah status during the apartheid years to its de facto status as leader of the African continent. Its ambitious foreign policy agenda and the pan-African revivalism of Mbeki are discussed in the context of the many constraints (the need to attract foreign investment, limited institutional capacity, ambiguities over the nature of South Africa's identity) that circumscribe i…
Afro-Chinese relations
A detailed look at the historical and recent developments leading to the current Afro‐Sino relationship and the implications it has for South‐South relations in a changing global order
South Africa in Africa
South Africa's role in Africa since its democratic transition has been mired in controversy and characterised by differing interpretations. While it has wrestled ambivalently about constructing an African identity in the Mandela years, President Mbeki has firmly located South Africa's interests in Africa. The normative foundations of its Africa engagement with regard to providing public goods and leadership in peace diplomacy, resolving conflicts…
Africa’s Triple Quest
It is with a dose of nostalgia that one recalls the halcyon days when the voices of African scholars resonated in debates about the currents and trends that shaped the different prisms through which Africa was viewed. Refreshing but critical appraisals were offered in an intellectual mix that was mostly dominated by a hegemonic epistemology originating in the West, primarily in the United States, France, and Britain. The terms of contestation oft…
The Past as Prologue
Laying the BRICS of a new global order
As an informal coalition of emerging powers, the grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) represents a geo-political entity of great significance in the fluid and dynamic
The Role of China in Africa’s Industrialization
The economies of Africa require urgent structural transformation and the great challenge is how industrial development can aid this transformation process. China’s ability to sustain high productivity growth was underpinned by resource allocation from low-to-high productive sectors and this was the essence of its own modernization processes. Most African countries remain highly reliant on commodity exports in a depressed global environment, exace…
Facing the New Millennium
This chapter examines the processes, institutions and actors which govern and determine the manner in which foreign policy has been made in South Africa since 1994. Post-apartheid South Africa has emerged in a changed and uncertain world, marked by contradictory tendencies and impulses. The leitmotif governing South Africa’s foreign policy has been labelled ‘universality,’ essentially the opening of foreign and local doors in the same reconciliat…
Protest in South Africa
Southern multilateralism from Ibsa to NDB
The shifting nature of contemporary global politics highlights the growing contestation about power and how it is distributed, with multipolarity as its hallmark and distinguishing feature. Amid the shift to multipolarity, new forms of multilateralism are emerging from the South, which are grounded in ‘institutional arrangements led by countries of the Global South’ in terms of the origin of initiatives, the drivers of such arrangements and the r…
South Africa
South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has conducted its foreign policy under the ruling African National Congress. Its external relations derive their log…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · International Development and Aid (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works)