重新思考“联盟”:南非作为崛起大国的案例

IF 1.7 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Christopher Williams, M. Papa
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南非如何看待国际联盟?国际关系学者一直在争论联盟的终结以及联盟范式本身的相关性。南非为推动这些辩论提供了一个极好的测试案例,原因有三。首先,它一直致力于不结盟,但仍从事密切而复杂的国家间合作。其次,关于联盟模式的辩论主要发生在全球北方,而且主要集中在全球北方。第三,南非在这方面的学术研究存在差距。本文通过对南非学术和政策格局的系统研究,考察了南非对联盟的理解,包括对南非五家排名最高的国际关系期刊的285篇文章和后种族隔离时期产生的关键政策文件的分析。本文概述了联盟是如何概念化和操作化的。研究发现,南非的联盟概念偏离了全球北方的传统理解:联盟往往是由共同的政治和发展目标驱动的,而不是外部安全威胁。这些目标,加上对新的经济机会的认识,导致南非与新兴大国的战略伙伴关系的重要性增加,并加强了其多联盟外交。
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Rethinking “Alliances”: The Case of South Africa as a Rising Power
ABSTRACT How does South Africa view international alliances? International relations (IR) scholars have been debating the end of alliances and the relevance of the alliance paradigm itself. South Africa presents an excellent test case for advancing these debates for three reasons. First, it has been committed to nonalignment yet engages in close and complex inter-state collaborations. Second, debates about the alliance paradigm have largely taken place in, and focused on, the Global North. And third, there is a gap in South African scholarship on this subject. This article examines the South African understanding of alliances through a systematic study of its academic and policy landscape including an analysis of 285 articles from South Africa’s five most highly ranked IR journals and key policy documents produced during the post-apartheid period. The article outlines how alliances are conceptualized and operationalized. It finds that the alliance concept in South Africa departs from the traditional understanding in the Global North: alliances are often driven by mutually shared political and developmental objectives rather than an external security threat. These objectives, combined with a perception of new economic opportunities, have led to an increase in the importance of South Africa’s strategic partnerships with rising powers, and reinforced its multi-alignment diplomacy.
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African Security
African Security POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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