International Trade Policy and Class Dynamics in South Africa

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction and Theoretical Focus

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   Pages 1-36

3. Erratum to: South Africa’s Political Elite and Its Political Objectors

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   Pages E1-E1

4. South Africa’s Political Economy

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   2. National Context: Contemporary South African Capitalism, the State and Its Policy

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      Pages 39-63

   3. Transnational Context: International Trade Relations

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      Pages 65-77

5. South Africa’s Class Relations in Economic and Trade Policy

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   2. South African Capitalist Classes: From Mining to Agriculture

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      Pages 81-101

   3. South Africa’s Political Elite and Its Political Objectors

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      Pages 103-128

   4. South Africa’s Popular Classes

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      Pages 129-144

   5. South Africa’s Economic State Apparatuses

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      Pages 145-164

6. Reconstructing the Process: South Africa’s Classes and the Economic Partnership Agreement

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   2. The EU–SADC EPA: Road Map and Conflicts (2006–2010)

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      Pages 167-180

   3. Class Fraction Perspectives on the Conflicting EPA Issues

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      Pages 181-207

   4. Restart of the EU–SADC EPA Negotiation and Its Outcome

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      Pages 209-222

   5. Conclusion

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      Pages 223-237

7. Back Matter

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This book provides an innovative perspective on class dynamics in South Africa, focusing specifically on how different interests have shaped economic and trade policy. As an emerging market, South African political and economic actions are subject to the attention of international trade policy. Claar provides an in-depth class analysis of the contradictory negotiation processes that occurred between South Africa and the European Union on Economic-Partnership Agreements (EPA), examining the divergent roles played by the political and economic elite, and the working class. The author considers their relationships with the new global trade agenda, as well as their differing standpoints on the EPA.

• International Political Economy
• historical materialist policy analysis (HMPA)
• Trade policy
• National class relations
• Historical materialism
• Hegemony
• Capitalism
• Global South
• Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)
• Minerals-Energy Complex
• Business Unity South Africa
• the Black Business Council
• the Democratic Alliance
• EU–SADC EPA
• neo-Poulantzian framework
• Class dynamics
• South Africa
• Economic Policy
• Emerging Markets
• Working class

• University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany

  Simone Claar

Simone Claar is post-doc researcher at the Working Group Globalization & Politics at the University of Kassel and Senior Policy Advisor for Teacher Education at the German Education Union, Germany. Alongside a previous position as Researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kassel, she worked as a Research Associate at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests include capitalism, emerging markets, development and trade, class analysis and the postcolonial state.

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