Chris Landsberg
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 162001 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Landsberg |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Landsberg |
| ASSINATURA | LANDSBERG C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5503-2152 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
South Africa Foreign Policy and the National Interest
In 2022 the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) released the National Interest Framework, formally setting out what South Africa’s national interest is. According to DIRCO this aimed at providing an understanding of, and predictability in South Africa’s international relations. As the latest document in guiding foreign policy the framework reflects a continuation in the rhetoric of foreign policy principles…
Concentric circles of South Africa’s climate diplomacy
This paper adopts the logic of concentric circles to unpack the multilevel approach that characterizes South Africa’s interface with climate change. The post-1994 South Africa interacted with climate change at multiple levels. At some points, South Africa’s response to climate change is guided strictly by the dictates of its overriding national interests. At another, it is a question of either serving a continental ‘representative’ or ‘leading vo…
An overview of the EU-SA Strategic Partnership 10 years on
The European Union–South Africa (EU–SA) Strategic Partnership has entered its 10th year. It is a product of its time and particular regional and international circumstances. These having changed somewhat over the course of the last decade, it is not surprising that the dynamics of the relationship, expressed through the strategic partnership's parameters, have undergone commensurate changes. Based on the recognition that the partnership is betwee…
The foreign policy and diplomatic attributes of a developmental state
With South Africa having declared itself a developmental state, this paper posits that if a developmental state is one that drives development, then the foreign policy of such a state should pursue development as one of its most important goals. Similarly the diplomatic corps of such a state should prioritise economic, commercial, para- and public diplomacy as drivers of diplomacy. In answering the question, ‘What should be the foreign policy and…
Ibsa's trilateral constellation and its development fund
With a changing geopolitical landscape following the Northern-induced global financial meltdown, stagnation on global governance reform and failure to reach agreement on issues ranging from trade (Doha Development Round) to climate change (United Nations Convention on Climate Change), the India–Brazil–South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum finds itself at the proverbial crossroads. At this point, with no summit having taken place since 2011, the futu…
The Concentric Circles of South Africa’s Foreign Policy under Jacob Zuma
South Africa’s foreign policy could be viewed as a set of concentric circles which define the Republic’s international priorities. In an attempt to bring coherence and predictability to them, the Zuma government has tried to learn from its predecessor, the Mbeki government (1999–2008), by putting emphasis on key international relations and concerns, and the idea was suggested that these different layers reinforced each other. According to stated …
Continuity and change in the foreign policies of South Africa’s De Klerk and Mandela governments, 1989–1999
The issue of continuity and change in foreign-policy analysis is one that receives scant scholarly attention, and South Africa is no exception. Even though the country is now almost two decades past the transitional period, and a good 14 years since Nelson Mandela stepped down as the first democratically elected President of South Africa, important lessons could still be drawn from the foreign-policy trends of this era. The foreign policies of So…
Afro-Continentalism
In his book In the Twilight of the Revolution (2009), which is also the subject of this review article, Kwandiwe Kondlo argues inter alia that: '. . . the Africanist orientation of the PAC [Pan-Africanist Congress] was appropriated in the policies of [South Africa's] . . . new democratic government(s), especially during the period of former President Thabo Mbeki' (2009: 282). This author critically examines Kondlo's assertion in the context of So…
Pax South Africana and the Responsibility to Protect
This essay examines the leading role adopted by the South African governments of Nelson Mandela, abo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma to promote R2P between 1994 and 2010. In response to the sociopolitical oppression and devastation wrought by apartheid between 1948 and 1990, South African governments since 1994 have played an activist role in developing new norms in international affairs. Describing the South African posture on R2P as one of engagement and…
The foreign policy of the Zuma government
It was after much anticipation that members of the new Jacob Zuma foreign policy executive announced that, for the duration of their term, South Africa's foreign policy would be based on the doctrine of advancing ‘the national interest’, conceptualised simply as the ‘most vital needs’ of the country. However, almost two years since taking control of the levers of policy and political power, the South African government has yet to spell out in det…
Engaging Emerging Powers
Africa, viewed here as the world's ‘swing continent’, has in the past decade started to interact with emerging market economies in more intense fashion. This represents an advancing of the continent's integration into the global economy on terms more beneficial to the continent's development. However, this phenomenon also represents one of Africa's central strategic challenges; one located within what is widely considered a new ‘scramble for Afri…
South Africa's foreign policy
An examination of South Africa's different foreign policy role conceptions under the administrations of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, highlighting the respective governments’ strategies in carving a niche for the country in global relations. Notes Dr Chris Landsberg is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies and Research and Professor at the University of Johannesburg. David Monyae lectures in the Department of International Relations at the …
The UN High-Level Reports and Implications for Africa
Toward a Developmental Foreign Policy
Chris Landsberg Toward a Developmental Foreign Policy? Challenges for South Africa’s Diplomacy in the Second Decade of Liberation SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT A “ CHOICELESS DEMOCRACY” (MKANDAWIRE, 1999: 2); it is not a donor-driven democracy. It is a middle-ranked power in Africa, imbued with a vibrant political democracy, and it has been able for more than a decade now to punch above its weight, suggesting that it has been able to influence world affair…
Participate in the African renaissance
A global demographic shift toward an Afro‐Asian world is underway. Ideally, the United States would broaden its contacts beyond bilateral relations to subregional organizations and take Africa seriously; otherwise, a south‐south hemispheric alignment may emerge
The triple black burden
Back to the future
(2000). Back to the future: UN peacekeeping in Africa. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century, pp. 161-188
Promoting Democracy
The promotion of democracy in Africa has become the dominant theme of the "new" South Africa's foreign policy. Yet while the rhetoric of Pretoria's new foreign-policy elite continues to be eloquently and consistently prodemocratic, South Africa's democracy-promotion efforts have encountered many pitfalls, contradictions, and dilemmas that have forced the government to alter its approach
Pax Africanain the age of extremes
Phaphama iAfirika
(1998). Phaphama iAfirika!: The African Renaissance and Corporate South Africa. African Security Review: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 3-17
Promoting Democracy
The promotion of democracy in Africa has become the dominant theme of the "new" South Africa's foreign policy. Yet while the rhetoric of Pretoria's new foreign-policy elite continues to be eloquently and consistently prodemocratic, South Africa's democracy-promotion efforts have encountered many pitfalls, contradictions, and dilemmas that have forced the government to alter its approach
The Concentric Circles of South Africa’s Foreign Policy under Jacob Zuma
South Africa’s foreign policy could be viewed as a set of concentric circles which define the Republic’s international priorities. In an attempt to bring coherence and predictability to them, the Zuma government has tried to learn from its predecessor, the Mbeki government (1999–2008), by putting emphasis on key international relations and concerns, and the idea was suggested that these different layers reinforced each other. According to stated …
Engaging Emerging Powers
Africa, viewed here as the world's ‘swing continent’, has in the past decade started to interact with emerging market economies in more intense fashion. This represents an advancing of the continent's integration into the global economy on terms more beneficial to the continent's development. However, this phenomenon also represents one of Africa's central strategic challenges; one located within what is widely considered a new ‘scramble for Afri…
Afro-Continentalism
In his book In the Twilight of the Revolution (2009), which is also the subject of this review article, Kwandiwe Kondlo argues inter alia that: '. . . the Africanist orientation of the PAC [Pan-Africanist Congress] was appropriated in the policies of [South Africa's] . . . new democratic government(s), especially during the period of former President Thabo Mbeki' (2009: 282). This author critically examines Kondlo's assertion in the context of So…
Pax South Africana and the Responsibility to Protect
This essay examines the leading role adopted by the South African governments of Nelson Mandela, abo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma to promote R2P between 1994 and 2010. In response to the sociopolitical oppression and devastation wrought by apartheid between 1948 and 1990, South African governments since 1994 have played an activist role in developing new norms in international affairs. Describing the South African posture on R2P as one of engagement and…
The foreign policy of the Zuma government
It was after much anticipation that members of the new Jacob Zuma foreign policy executive announced that, for the duration of their term, South Africa's foreign policy would be based on the doctrine of advancing ‘the national interest’, conceptualised simply as the ‘most vital needs’ of the country. However, almost two years since taking control of the levers of policy and political power, the South African government has yet to spell out in det…
South Africa's foreign policy
An examination of South Africa's different foreign policy role conceptions under the administrations of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, highlighting the respective governments’ strategies in carving a niche for the country in global relations. Notes Dr Chris Landsberg is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies and Research and Professor at the University of Johannesburg. David Monyae lectures in the Department of International Relations at the …
Back to the future
(2000). Back to the future: UN peacekeeping in Africa. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century, pp. 161-188
Pax Africanain the age of extremes
The foreign policy and diplomatic attributes of a developmental state
With South Africa having declared itself a developmental state, this paper posits that if a developmental state is one that drives development, then the foreign policy of such a state should pursue development as one of its most important goals. Similarly the diplomatic corps of such a state should prioritise economic, commercial, para- and public diplomacy as drivers of diplomacy. In answering the question, ‘What should be the foreign policy and…
Phaphama iAfirika
(1998). Phaphama iAfirika!: The African Renaissance and Corporate South Africa. African Security Review: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 3-17
Back to the future
(2000). Back to the future: UN peacekeeping in Africa. International Peacekeeping: Vol. 7, Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st Century, pp. 161-188
Promoting Democracy
The promotion of democracy in Africa has become the dominant theme of the "new" South Africa's foreign policy. Yet while the rhetoric of Pretoria's new foreign-policy elite continues to be eloquently and consistently prodemocratic, South Africa's democracy-promotion efforts have encountered many pitfalls, contradictions, and dilemmas that have forced the government to alter its approach
Pax Africanain the age of extremes
Participate in the African renaissance
A global demographic shift toward an Afro‐Asian world is underway. Ideally, the United States would broaden its contacts beyond bilateral relations to subregional organizations and take Africa seriously; otherwise, a south‐south hemispheric alignment may emerge
The triple black burden
The UN High-Level Reports and Implications for Africa
Toward a Developmental Foreign Policy
Chris Landsberg Toward a Developmental Foreign Policy? Challenges for South Africa’s Diplomacy in the Second Decade of Liberation SOUTH AFRICA IS NOT A “ CHOICELESS DEMOCRACY” (MKANDAWIRE, 1999: 2); it is not a donor-driven democracy. It is a middle-ranked power in Africa, imbued with a vibrant political democracy, and it has been able for more than a decade now to punch above its weight, suggesting that it has been able to influence world affair…
South Africa's foreign policy
An examination of South Africa's different foreign policy role conceptions under the administrations of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, highlighting the respective governments’ strategies in carving a niche for the country in global relations. Notes Dr Chris Landsberg is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies and Research and Professor at the University of Johannesburg. David Monyae lectures in the Department of International Relations at the …
Engaging Emerging Powers
Africa, viewed here as the world's ‘swing continent’, has in the past decade started to interact with emerging market economies in more intense fashion. This represents an advancing of the continent's integration into the global economy on terms more beneficial to the continent's development. However, this phenomenon also represents one of Africa's central strategic challenges; one located within what is widely considered a new ‘scramble for Afri…
Pax South Africana and the Responsibility to Protect
This essay examines the leading role adopted by the South African governments of Nelson Mandela, abo Mbeki, and Jacob Zuma to promote R2P between 1994 and 2010. In response to the sociopolitical oppression and devastation wrought by apartheid between 1948 and 1990, South African governments since 1994 have played an activist role in developing new norms in international affairs. Describing the South African posture on R2P as one of engagement and…
The foreign policy of the Zuma government
It was after much anticipation that members of the new Jacob Zuma foreign policy executive announced that, for the duration of their term, South Africa's foreign policy would be based on the doctrine of advancing ‘the national interest’, conceptualised simply as the ‘most vital needs’ of the country. However, almost two years since taking control of the levers of policy and political power, the South African government has yet to spell out in det…
Afro-Continentalism
In his book In the Twilight of the Revolution (2009), which is also the subject of this review article, Kwandiwe Kondlo argues inter alia that: '. . . the Africanist orientation of the PAC [Pan-Africanist Congress] was appropriated in the policies of [South Africa's] . . . new democratic government(s), especially during the period of former President Thabo Mbeki' (2009: 282). This author critically examines Kondlo's assertion in the context of So…
Continuity and change in the foreign policies of South Africa’s De Klerk and Mandela governments, 1989–1999
The issue of continuity and change in foreign-policy analysis is one that receives scant scholarly attention, and South Africa is no exception. Even though the country is now almost two decades past the transitional period, and a good 14 years since Nelson Mandela stepped down as the first democratically elected President of South Africa, important lessons could still be drawn from the foreign-policy trends of this era. The foreign policies of So…
The Concentric Circles of South Africa’s Foreign Policy under Jacob Zuma
South Africa’s foreign policy could be viewed as a set of concentric circles which define the Republic’s international priorities. In an attempt to bring coherence and predictability to them, the Zuma government has tried to learn from its predecessor, the Mbeki government (1999–2008), by putting emphasis on key international relations and concerns, and the idea was suggested that these different layers reinforced each other. According to stated …
The foreign policy and diplomatic attributes of a developmental state
With South Africa having declared itself a developmental state, this paper posits that if a developmental state is one that drives development, then the foreign policy of such a state should pursue development as one of its most important goals. Similarly the diplomatic corps of such a state should prioritise economic, commercial, para- and public diplomacy as drivers of diplomacy. In answering the question, ‘What should be the foreign policy and…
Ibsa's trilateral constellation and its development fund
With a changing geopolitical landscape following the Northern-induced global financial meltdown, stagnation on global governance reform and failure to reach agreement on issues ranging from trade (Doha Development Round) to climate change (United Nations Convention on Climate Change), the India–Brazil–South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum finds itself at the proverbial crossroads. At this point, with no summit having taken place since 2011, the futu…
An overview of the EU-SA Strategic Partnership 10 years on
The European Union–South Africa (EU–SA) Strategic Partnership has entered its 10th year. It is a product of its time and particular regional and international circumstances. These having changed somewhat over the course of the last decade, it is not surprising that the dynamics of the relationship, expressed through the strategic partnership's parameters, have undergone commensurate changes. Based on the recognition that the partnership is betwee…
Concentric circles of South Africa’s climate diplomacy
This paper adopts the logic of concentric circles to unpack the multilevel approach that characterizes South Africa’s interface with climate change. The post-1994 South Africa interacted with climate change at multiple levels. At some points, South Africa’s response to climate change is guided strictly by the dictates of its overriding national interests. At another, it is a question of either serving a continental ‘representative’ or ‘leading vo…
South Africa Foreign Policy and the National Interest
In 2022 the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) released the National Interest Framework, formally setting out what South Africa’s national interest is. According to DIRCO this aimed at providing an understanding of, and predictability in South Africa’s international relations. As the latest document in guiding foreign policy the framework reflects a continuation in the rhetoric of foreign policy principles…
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