Frank Review Of South African Foreign Policy Over 25 Years

John J Stremlau, University of the Witwatersrand

In an important new book, South Africa’s foreign policy performance over its first quarter-century democratic governance is put under the spotlight.

Professor Eddy Maloka, CEO of the African Peer Review Mechanism, surveys South Africa’s performance in an incisive, accessible, credible account of how and why the country has acted in regional and global affairs.

Professor Maloka, an historian by training, is both a scholar and a practitioner of South African foreign policy.

In addition to his years of research, writing and teaching, he also worked in national and provincial government. He served as special advisor to South Africa’s foreign minister between 2009-2016.

His latest book – When Foreign Becomes Domestic: The Interplay of National Interests, Pan-Africanism and Internationalism in South Africa’s Foreign Policy – is constructively provocative.

The book, he stresses, “is written for students of international relations, practitioners whose hard work