Norms in International Relations
Subtitle: The Struggle Against Apartheid (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780801431067
Subjects: Human rights; International relations; Politics - Current Events; Apartheid; International Relations Theory; Politics / Current Events; South Africa; Politics/International Relations; Relations; Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnology; International Relations - General; Foreign countries
First sentence: On 10 May 1994, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela's inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Description: After forty years of protest against apartheid, the world celebrated Nelson Mandela's inauguration as South Africa's first democratically elected president. Klotz considers why racial discrimination in South Africa became a global concern and why - in a remarkable change of practice - nations and international organizations adopted sanctions against the Pretoria regime.

By explaining how the world community actively came to condemn apartheid, Norms in International Relations contributes to broader debates on the role of norms in global politics.

Klotz rehearses a fascinating history, combining the power politics of economic sanctions and the normative politics of racial equality. She reenacts the events that resulted in the United Nations decision to oppose apartheid. The author also analyzes anti-apartheid activism in the British Commonwealth and in the Organization of African Unity, and she documents changing attitudes toward South African racial separateness in the United States, Britain, and Zimbabwe.