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Constructive Engagement? : Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981-1988 - J. E. Davies

Constructive Engagement?

Chester Crocker & American Policy in South Africa, Namibia & Angola, 1981-1988

By: J. E. Davies

Hardcover | 18 December 2007

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The notion of engagement represtents an indispensible tool in a foreign policy practitioner's armory. The idea of constructive engagement is forwarded by governments as a method whereby pressure can be brought to bear on countries to improve their record on human rights, while diplomatic and economic contracts can be maintained. But does this approach succeed? To answer this question this book offers a critical evaluation of one of the best-known examples of constructive engagement-the Reagan administration's policy toward South Africa.
Chester Crocker was appointed as Reagan's assistant secretary of state for African affairs in 1981. Crocker maintained that unvarying hostile rhetoric leveled at the apartheid regime in South Africa only served to increase Pretoria's mistrust and dislike of Washington and hardened Pretoria's intransigence. Crocker asserted that an open dialogue, together with a reduction of punitive measures, such as export restrictions, would gain the confidence of Pretoria, enabling Washington to influence South Africa toward a gradual change away from apartheid.
This book aims to determine how successful Crocker's constructive engagement policy was in South Africa and the neighboring states of Namibia and Angola. In this timely and brilliant study, Davies examines the implications for current applications of constructive engagement as a tool of foreign policy.
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"The failure of constructive engagement is revealed quite early on in the book, when the author points out how 'remarkable' it was that Pretoria's admission that it was 'not prepared to play the reciprocal role demanded by constructive engagement'-the reform of apartheid and the release of Namibia in exchange for 'respectability' as a U.S. ally in the Cold War-had 'no apparent impact' on Crocker's policy."
"Davies contends that constructive engagement was a failure because Cold War concerns overrode the explicit goal of ending apartheid in South Africa.... A well-written, thoroughly documented case study of US foreign policy."

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