Introduction: South African foreign policy in context - PART 1 PERSPECTIVES - The Impact of Afrikaner Experience - Perception of South Africa's International Role - PART 2 THE MAKING OF FOREIGN POLICY - Decision-Making and the Foreign Policy Process - Foreign Policy in Defence of Apartheid - PART 3 SHIFTING FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGIES - Deteriorating Security and Policy Reappraisal (1974-78) - Growing Militancy and Isolation under P.W.Botha - Namibia Policy and the War in Angola - Regional Destabilisation: the New Outward Policy? - PART DETERIORATING RELATIONS WITH THE WEST - Foreign Policy Responses to the West - Pretoria's Nuclear Diplomacy - Epilogue - Index