Overview
- Reveals key aspects of class politics in South Africa
- Contributes to the comparative analysis of trade policy
- Applies a historical materialist perspective to the study of political economy
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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South Africa’s Political Economy
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South Africa’s Class Relations in Economic and Trade Policy
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Reconstructing the Process: South Africa’s Classes and the Economic Partnership Agreement
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Keywords
- 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
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Trade Policy and Class Dynamics in South Africa
Book Subtitle: The Economic Partnership Agreement
Authors: Simone Claar
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65714-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65713-4Published: 28 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88088-4Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65714-1Published: 07 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 244
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, Social Structure, Social Inequality, International Economics, Trade, Economic Policy