Reputational Insecurity and Breaking Apartheid: Non-governmental Networks of Disruption and Dissent and the Case of South Africa
摘要
This chapter will chart the role of non-state actors in the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. It will argue that the partnership between the United Nations Center Against Apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) in exile and multiple civil society groups around the world, which operated from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, constituted a remarkable example of successful non-state public diplomacy and networking. It will consider the tactics which challenged the preferred narrative of the racist government in Pretoria and effectively branded the country as a pariah. The piece will go on to complicate the non-state model into more of a state/non-state hybrid by documenting the ways in which the anti-Apartheid case also incorporated important aspects of state public diplomacy.