International relations in post‐apartheid South Africa: some anniversary questions

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Peter Vale is Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

The idea for this comes from The Penguin Dictionary of International Relations which was edited by Graham Evans and Jeffrey Newnham. Graham Evans, who had written much on South Africa's foreign policy, died in 2003. In fondly remembering him on the occasion of this writing, I want to pay tribute to a generous and funny man with many, many gifts and wonderful ideas.

This idea came from Jack Spence (1997). For a deeper discussion of the effect this has had on South Africa's foreign policy, see Vale and Taylor (1999, p. 352).

‘It is true that here is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills’ (Paton, 1948, p. 9). These are the opening lines of Alan Paton's Cry the Beloved Country. They were written in the Hotel Bristol in Trondheim, Norway, on 24 September 1946.

A brief discussion of both South Africa and Norway as so‐called middle powers is to be found Vale (1994, pp. 58–61).

This information was generously emailed to me by Jane Tempest of the South African Institute of Race Relations on Wednesday, 19 May 2004.

Perhaps South Africa's first real political scientist (he called himself one), Edgar Brookes had a distinguished career in the South African Institute of Race Relations and in the country's Senate where he represented Africans. He wrote an early book on South Africa's International Relations (Brookes, 1953).

‘After the Government Gazette, it was clearly the most widely consulted publication for basic information about our land’.

This phrase is borrowed from ‘Muddying the rules on asylum’, The Economist (London), January 13 1996, p. 17.

This is a phrase was introduced to me by my Rhodes colleague, the political philosopher, Dr Tony Fluxman.