From the outside in

Professor Chris Landsberg holds the SARChI Chair of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and is a senior associate at the UJ School of Leadership. He is the former head of the department of politics and international relations at UJ. Prof Landsberg was educated at the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg); Rhodes; and Oxford, and holds an MPhil and DPhil international relations degrees (Oxon). He was as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and is a former Hamburg Fellow at Stanford University, United States (US). Previously he was director of the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in Johannesburg, and co-founder and former co-director of the Centre for Africa’s International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Dr Lesley Masters is a senior researcher and lecturer at the NRF Chair of African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at UJ. Prior to this she was a senior researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD), responsible for managing projects on foreign policy and diplomacy. She holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Leicester. She has edited books on South African foreign policy and natural resource governance, and served as joint guest editor of a special issue of the Journal for Contemporary History on African Diplomacy, and a special issue of the South African Journal of International Affairs.

• Contents; Introduction; Bringing plurality back in from the cold: Domestic actors and South Africa’s foreign policy; Chapter 1. Government departments and the challenges of integrated foreign policy-making; Chapter 2. Subnational governments and the localisation of foreign policy in South Africa; Chapter 3. Between Plein Street and Soutpansberg Road: Parliament and foreign policy during the Zuma presidency; Chapter 4. The ANC worldview and implications for South African foreign policy: Review of the 2015 foreign policy discussion document; Chapter 5. Labour Unions and South Africa’s foreign policy: The case of COSATU; Chapter 6. Big business and foreign policy: Cog or driver of South Africa’s international relations machinery?; Chapter 7. Women, gender and South Africa’s foreign policy: The need for an inclusive approach to foreign policy decision-making; Chapter 8. The elitist love-hate affair: Civil society and South African foreign policy (dis)engagement Voice from the periphery: Grassroots social movements and South Africa’s foreign policy Insights and perspectives on South Africa’s foreign policy from the Unemployed People’s Movement, Grahamstown; Conclusion; Bringing civil society back in