South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa. It was rated the continent's largest economy in 2016 and is the only African member of the G20. It is also the only strategic partner of the EU in Africa. Yet despite being so strategically and economically significant, there is little scholarship that focuses on South Africa as a regional hegemon. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of South Africa's post-Apartheid foreign policy. Over its 23 chapters - -and with contributions from established Africa, Western, Asian and American scholars, as well as diplomats and analysts - the book examines the current pattern of the country's foreign relations in impressive detail. The geographic and thematic coverage is extensive, including chapters on: the domestic imperatives of South Africa's foreign policy; peace-making; defence and security; bilateral relations in Southern, Central, West, Eastern and North Africa; bilateral relations with the US, China, Britain, France and Japan; the country's key external multilateral relations with the UN; the BRICS economic grouping; the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group (ACP); as well as the EU and the World Trade Organization (WTO). An essential resource for researchers, the book will be relevant to the fields of area studies, foreign policy, history, international relations, international law, security studies, political economy and development studies.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Concentric Circles of South Africa's Foreign Policy Adekeye Adebajo, Director, Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg Part I: Key Themes in South Africa's Foreign Policy The Domestic Imperatives of South Africa's Foreign Policy Chris Landsberg, South African Research Chair (SARChI) of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy; and Senior Associate, University of Johannesburg School of Leadership, Johannesburg, South Africa South Africa's Peacemaking Efforts in Africa: Ideas, Interests, and Influence Devon E. A. Curtis, Lecturer, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, England 4. South Africa's Defence and Security Role: Unravelling the Defence Predicament Sagaren Krishna Naidoo, Director, Defence Policy Formulation, Department of Defence, Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa 5. Human Rights in South Africa's Foreign Policy: A Light or a Liability? Nicole Fritz, Independent Consultant in International Human Rights Law; and former Executive Director, Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), Johannesburg 6. South Africa's Corporate Expansion: Towards an “SA Inc.” Approach in Africa Brendan Vickers, Economic Advisor, Regional Trade and Integration Issues, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, England; and Richard Cawood, Strategy and Transformation Leader, Ernst & Young (EY), Johannesburg Part II: South Africa's Key Bilateral Relations in Africa 7. South Africa in Southern Africa: Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe Lloyd M. Sachikonye, Associate Professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe 8. South Africa in the Great Lakes: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Professor of African Studies, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States (US) 9. South Africa in West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire Adekeye Adebajo, Director, Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg 10. South Africa in Eastern Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Sudan/South Sudan Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg 11. South Africa in North Africa: Egypt, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia Rawia Tawfik, Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt Part III: South Africa's Key Multilateral Relations in Africa 12. South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Chris Saunders, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Cape Town (UCT); and Dawn Nagar, Senior Researcher, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town 13. South Africa and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Richard Gibb, Director, Abu Dhabi Men's College, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) 14. South Africa and the African Union (AU) Eddy Maloka, South Africa's Former Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region Part IV: South Africa's Key External Bilateral Relations 15. South Africa and the United States: A Pragmatic Friendship Stephen R. Weissman, Former Staff Director of the US House of Representatives' Sub-committee on Africa 16. South Africa and Britain: “An Emerging Power and an Old Friend” Daniel Large, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary 17. South Africa and France: A Rising versus a Declining Power? Roland Marchal, Senior Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/ Sciences Po, Paris, France 18. South Africa and China: Solidarity and Beyond Liu Haifang, Associate Professor, School of International Studies; and Deputy Director and Secretary-General, Centre for African Studies, Peking University, Beijing, China Part V: South Africa's Key External Multilateral Relations 19. South Africa and the U