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Selected Arguments Against United States' Economic Disengagement from South Africa and some Alternative Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2019

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There is very wide agreement, with which I fully concur, regarding the abhorrent and unacceptable character of apartheid and regarding the inevitable demise of minority rule in South Africa. There is, however, honest disagreement regarding the best way for Americans and others to assist in effecting change. Differing motives for recommending disengagement may also sometimes confuse the issue. Disengagement can reflect such diverse policies as neutralism, non-cooperation, dissociation, intervention, or withdrawal. It can reflect a desire to induce change by positive steps or an acceptance that little can be done, but that the disengager will at least not be implicated or involved in a detested situation. To some it is the isolation of the disengager that is the goal; others appear to be propounding as-full-as-possible isolation of South Africa.

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Economic Relations Between South Africa and the United States
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1973 

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* See United Nations Association of the United States of America, Southern Africa: Proposals for Americans, New York, December, 1971.

Hance, William A., ed., Southern Africa and the United States, New York, USA, Columbia University Press, 1968, p. 110.Google Scholar