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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. |