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- Title: South Africa's Post-1994 Military Relations with the Mercosur Countries: Prospects and Challenges *.
- Author : Strategic Review for Southern Africa
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 245 KB
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ABSTRACT The formation of Mercosur/Mercosul in 1991 coincided with the changing political dispensation in South Africa and the end of the Cold War. The coincidence is particularly important in the sense that South Africa's foreign policy options expanded in scope and that the newly-democratised South Africa was catapulted into a changing global environment which, for decades, had been characterised by a political-ideological divide between the East and the West. The historical links between South Africa and Mercosur member states had to be redefined and reconfigured in response to the changing national and global political, economic and military environments. This presented opportunities and challenges which the new South African government, but particularly the new Department of Defence, had to deal with.