Skeptical Notes on 'Constructive Engagement'
| Autor: | Sam C. Nolutshungu |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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| Zdroj: | Issue. 12:3-7 |
| ISSN: | 2325-8721 0047-1607 |
| DOI: | 10.2307/1166710 |
| Popis: | But do you not think that there is safety in the other course? For here also it is necessary since you have forced us to abandon considerations of justice and are persuading us to give ear to what is in your interests, for us to tell you what is to our advantage, and if our interests happen to be the same to try to persuade you.There are many arguments advanced in support of “constructive engagement,” but the following claims are probably the most important. Apartheid is morally unacceptable. It creates difficulties in the West. It is in the interest of the West that it should come to an end with Western help. That interest coincides with that of most South Africans, except perhaps, an increasingly unrepresentative minority. Total disengagement, disinvestment, and trade boycotts are deemed impractical and unlikely, in any event, to succeed in supplanting the racist regime. |
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