Dirty scapegoats: explaining Israel's ties with South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s

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dc.contributor.authorAlsheh, Yehonatan
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-15T09:28:32Z
dc.date.available2016-11-15T09:28:32Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThe article surveys five possible explanations for the ties between Israel and South Africa between the 1970s and 1980s. (1) The Industrial-Military Complex Explanation, arguing that both the Israeli and South African defence establishments and arms industries had much to gain from such a relationship, and enough political influence to ensure that this would indeed happen. (2) The Nuclear Alliance Explanation, arguing that it was in Israel and South Africa’s national interest to forge a nuclear consortium that would enable them to attain and further develop significant nuclear capacities, conceived by both states as the ultimate means for guaranteeing the survival of their chronicallycontested regimes. (3) The Ideological Affinities / similar Regime-Type Explanation, arguing that, while Israel was unable or in any case reluctant to publicly admit it, it was not averse to the South African regime of separate development, mostly because, ever since 1967, it was on a course of constructing its own version of such a regime. (4) The Pariah States Alliance Explanation, arguing that Israel and South Africa shared the same international status of pariah states, hence having no other states they could befriend, and in any case nothing to lose from collaborating with each other. (5) The Politics of International Pariah-Making Explanation, arguing that the concept of the pariah state – which emerged in 1977 and disappeared by the end of the 1980s – was not a naïve scholarly attempt to conceptualize a new type of international actor, but rather an ideological construct, meant to re-justify the United State’s support for some of its more embarrassing client states, while restructuring the precise way in which that support was provided.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationAlsheh, Y. (2013). Dirty scapegoats: explaining Israel's ties with South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. Journal for Contemporary History, 38(1), 22-40.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-2422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2415-0509 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/4469
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Humanities, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State
dc.subjectIsraelen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectPalestineen_ZA
dc.subjectNuclearen_ZA
dc.subjectPariahen_ZA
dc.subjectForeign relationsen_ZA
dc.subjectArms tradeen_ZA
dc.subjectEmbargoen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheiden_ZA
dc.subjectOccupationen_ZA
dc.subjectUnited States of Americaen_ZA
dc.subjectUnited Nationsen_ZA
dc.subjectCold Waren_ZA
dc.subjectInternational Lawen_ZA
dc.titleDirty scapegoats: explaining Israel's ties with South Africa during the 1970s and 1980sen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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