Economic Power in Anglo-South African Diplomacy [electronic resource] : Simonstown, Sharpeville and After

Those familiar with the writings of Klaus Knorr will recognise in the division of this book into 'Potential Economic Power' (Part A) and 'Diplomatic Encounters' (Part B) Knorr's distinction between supposed power and actual power. This distinction has not, however, been employed as the central organising principle of the book in order to highlight the appositeness of Knorr's conceptual analysis (though perhaps, incidentally, it does) but because it allows economic questions to be dealt with in detail without breaking up the thread of the political analysis. Employed in this way, it also has the merit of emphasising the fundamentally hypothetical nature of considerations of economic dependence in the absence of evidence relating them to diplomacy. The drawback of this approach is that it necessarily entails some repetition of the economic argument in the course of the political chapters. In order to avoid overburdening the endnotes to the main economic chapter (3), detailed references for figures on Anglo-South African trade and investment have been largely omitted. Front Matter....Pages i-xv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Problem of British Policy....Pages 3-12 Will, Skill and Reputation....Pages 13-26 The Economic Grip on Britain....Pages 27-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 The Simonstown Negotiations....Pages 69-109 The Post-Sharpeville Crisis....Pages 110-145 Labour: Defence and Rhodesia....Pages 146-163 Conclusion....Pages 164-165 Back Matter....Pages 167-225