Promoting Democracy: The Mandela-Mbeki Doctrine

Issue Date July 2000
Volume 11
Issue 3
Page Numbers 107-121
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The promotion of democracy in Africa has become the dominant theme of South Africa’s foreign policy. Yet the dilemmas this policy has confronted in practice have forced the government to alter its approach.

About the Author

Chris Landsberg teaches in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Between October 1999 and May 2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.

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