南非政府间外交关系二十年回顾

IF 0.3 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE
F. Nganje
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本文分析了过去20年来南非国家和省政府在外交事务上的关系。它偏离了这样一个前提,即南非1996年宪法中所包含的地方政府相对自治的理念,由于宪法设计中固有的模糊性、执政党强烈的中央集权精神以及普遍较弱的省级能力等因素,在很大程度上仍未得到发展。因此,国家和省政府之间在外交事务上的关系一直很低调,主要集中在技术问题上,总体上是自上而下的。尽管宪法对此作出了规定,但省级政府实际上没有参与外交政策制定过程。此外,文章指出,旨在协调省级国际关系并使其与国家发展优先事项和南非外交政策保持一致的政府间进程在很大程度上是无效和低效的。
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA: A TWENTY YEAR REVIEW
This article analyses relations between South Africa's national and provincial governments on foreign affairs over the past 20 years. It departs from the premise that the idea of relative autonomy ofsubnational governments, which is embedded in South Africa's 1996 constitution, has remained largely underdeveloped owing to factors such as inherent ambiguities in the constitutional design, a strong centralising ethos on the part of the ruling party and generally weak provincial capacities. Consequently, relations between the national and provincial governments on foreign affairs have been low-key, predominantly focused on technical matters and generally of a top-down nature. Provincial governments have been virtually absent from the foreign policy-making process despite constitutional provisions to that effect. What is more, the article notes that intergovernmental processes intended to coordinate provincial international relations and align them with national development priorities and South Africa's foreign policy have for the most part been ineffective and inefficient.
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