nAudie Klotz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Klotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case
the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a
different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic
factors.
*Foreign Affairs*
The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of
international organizations and states adopted sanctions against
the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic
interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz
argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at
the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps
in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in
a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis
shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She
elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy
choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and
discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which
other scholars should build.
*World Politics*
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