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Title:The strategic importance of South Africa to the United States: an appraisal and policy analysis
Author:Bohman, Larry W.
Year:1982
Periodical:African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society
Volume:81
Issue:323
Pages:159-191
Language:English
Geographic terms:South Africa
United States
Subjects:foreign policy
strategic policy
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/721726
Abstract:There are two quite distinct problems that arise when considering South Africa's strategic importance to the United States. The first is in assessing how important South Africa is to the United States. The second is whether or not working with the present South African government is an appropriate, expeditious, or necessary means for securing US strategic interests with the Republic. There are two quite different concerns at issue here: the definition of strategic importance in and of itself, and the explicit acceptance that a specific political regime is the protector of those interests. The present South African government and its many friends and allies go out of their way to argue that the two are inextricably linked, that secure strategic relations require close ties with the apartheid regime. The present author argues that this is not the case. Notes, tab.
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