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The Challenge of Apartheid: UK-South African Relations, 1985-1986 - Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Volume IX (Paperback)
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The Challenge of Apartheid: UK-South African Relations, 1985-1986 - Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Volume IX (Paperback)
Series: Whitehall Histories
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This volume examines diplomatic relations between the United
Kingdom and South Africa during one of the most turbulent periods
of the apartheid era. The crisis of apartheid that began in 1984
provoked international outrage on an unprecedented scale. This
volume documents the attempt by the British Government to formulate
a response that would go some way towards meeting demands for
action on the part of critics of South Africa in the Commonwealth,
the United States and the European Community as well as in the
United Kingdom itself, without at the same time inflicting
unacceptable damage on Britain's significant economic interests in
South Africa. It was a process marked by frequent disagreements
between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office under Sir Geoffrey Howe. The volume begins with
reports of the deepening crisis at the beginning of 1985 and
concludes with the Commonwealth Review Meeting in August 1986, one
of the lowest of many low points in relations between the British
Government and the critics of apartheid. In South Africa,
meanwhile, there seemed little hope of progress following the
imposition of a national state of emergency, as the confrontation
between the Government and its opponents headed for deadlock and
the power of the 'securocrats' surrounding President Botha became
steadily more entrenched. This volume gives a flavour of what it
was like to be a British diplomat working for change at that time.
This volume will be of great interest to students of International
History, British Political History, African History and
International Relations in general.
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