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Full title: South African Foreign Policy Review, Volume 4
Subtitle: Ramaphosa and the New Dawn for South African Foreign Policy
Editors: Lesley Masters, Jo-Ansie van Wyk and Philani Mthembu
Publication: August 2022
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7983-0536-5
Format: NC
Extent: 352pp(tbc)
Price: R650 (tbc)
About the book
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s notion of a ‘new dawn’ as the clarion call for his presidency is yet to manifest fully in South Africa’s foreign policy. However, some changes that have already taken place indicate a departure from the foreign policy of the Zuma era. While Ramaphosa’s emphasis on foreign direct investment and trade seems to be the cornerstone of his tenure’s foreign policy, other developments and continuities require deeper reflection, which is one of the objectives of the review. As a reflection and assessment of the Ramaphosa era, it focuses on foreign policy leadership, foreign policy architecture, diplomacy, questions such as national interests and national identity, and South Africa’s bilateral and multilateral relations. Contributors to this fourth volume of the highly successful South African Foreign Policy Review series include South African and international experts, and will, like previous volumes, be of great use to diplomats, academics, students, government officials, parliamentarians, politicians, the media, and civil society.
The South African Foreign Policy Review, Volume 4, continues to build on the analysis of South Africa’s conduct internationally. The review fills a gap in the continuity of analysis on South African foreign policy, providing an important resource in tracing trends and developments. If the country is to maintain and grow its role in the region and international affairs more broadly, scholars, practitioners and the general public alike, need to be able to take stock of how the country has conducted itself internationally so far, and how it could improve on multiple fronts, including regional leadership, balancing principles and practice, and supporting diplomatic practice.
The fourth volume of the South African Foreign Policy Review, edited by Lesley Masters, Jo-Ansie van Wyk and Philani Mthembu, comprises 18 chapters and explores the norms and values, architecture, conceptual frameworks and practice of foreign policy and diplomacy.
Editors’ contact details:
Lesley Masters, Jo-Ansie van Wyk and Philani Mthembu
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Full title: Violent Ecotropes
Subtitle: Petroculture in the Niger Delta
Author: Philip Aghoghovwia
Publication: June 2022
ISBN (soft cover): 978-0-7969-2618-0
Format: 240 X168mm
Extent: 260pp
Price: R290
About the book
The Niger Delta, the crude oil extraction centre of Nigeria, has become an archetype of global consumption happening at the expense of local communities and habitats. Much is made of the spectacle of violence in this region: environmental devastation, local community protests and youth violence on account of the perceived injustices associated with the oil extractive industrial complex. The involvement of a global cartel of oil smuggling from this region, known as ‘bunkering’, fuels and finances local militancy, which in turn exacerbates violence in this beleaguered landscape of oil.
This book provides a unique view of the cultural aspects of the oil extraction industry within the societies where it operates. It highlights the complexity of the universal environmental challenges of our time and provides research lenses through which to understand this complex issue: who and what are represented in this oil culture, the charged and often clashing contexts of the globalised fossil fuel extraction industry versus the ecologies of directly affected people and places, that will persist for as long as carbon-based economies exist.
Author contact details:
Dr Philip Aghoghovwia