CHAPTER 6 The Youth and South African Foreign Policy: Influencers or Passive Observers?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. List of figures and tables viii
4. Foreword ix
5. Acknowledgements x
6. Acronyms and abbreviations xi
7. PART 1 Introducing the New Dawn
8. CHAPTER 1 A New Dawn for South Africa’s Foreign Policy? 3
9. PART 2 The New Dawn: Reimagining Ideas, Norms, and Identity
10. CHAPTER 2 South African Foreign Policy and the Search for Ontological Security 21
11. CHAPTER 3 To Be or Not To Be? Is South Africa a Good International Citizen? 38
12. CHAPTER 4 The Art of Reconciling Power and Morality: South Africa’s Norm Entrepreneurship Under Cyril Ramaphosa 61
13. PART 3 Constructing the New Dawn: Architecture, Actors, and Instruments in South African Foreign Policy
14. CHAPTER 5 Parliament and International Agreements: A Systems Perspective on Foreign Policy Oversight 87
15. CHAPTER 6 The Youth and South African Foreign Policy: Influencers or Passive Observers? 111
16. CHAPTER 7 South Africa’s Maritime Diplomacy 132
17. CHAPTER 8 South Africa’s Defence Diplomacy: A Viable Instrument of Foreign and Security Policy 151
18. CHAPTER 9 Towards the Urbanisation of Foreign Policy in South Africa? 176
19. CHAPTER 10 South African Foreign Policy, COVID-19, and Health Diplomacy: Sunset or a New Dawn? 196
20. PART 4 Searching for a Niche in the New Dawn: South Africa in the World
21. CHAPTER 11 South Africa’s Quest for Continental Peace and Security 219
22. CHAPTER 12 Women, Peace and Security and the African Continental Free Trade Area: Consolidating the Nexus in South Africa’s Foreign Policy 236
23. CHAPTER 13 South Africa’s Economic Diplomacy in Africa 253
24. CHAPTER 14 South African Engagement in Club Governance: A Boon for Economic Diplomacy 275
25. CHAPTER 15 South Africa’s Candidature Diplomacy 299
26. CHAPTER 16 Constituting a Post-Hegemonic World Order? Canada, South Africa, and the Fragility of ‘Middlepowerism’ 323
27. CHAPTER 17 Conflicting Perspectives and Cooperative Connections: South African–US Relations During the Ramaphosa Administration 345
28. PART 5 Conclusion: A New Dawn Deferred?
29. CHAPTER 18 The New Dawn in a Turbulent Geopolitical Landscape: South Africa, Africa, and the Global Balance of Forces 371
30. Contributing authors 385
31. Index 393