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Kommunikation mit dem übrigen Afrika wird für die RSA immer mehr zu einer Notwendigkeit, auch wenn sich der gegenwärtige Prozeß eher in umgekehrter Richtung vollzieht. Erörterung der Fragen, warum eine engere Beziehung Südafrikas zum Rest des Kontinents für die Kap-Republik lebensnotwendig ist, welche Hindernisse einer solchen Entwicklung gegenwärtig im Wege stehen und welche Faktoren für sie günstig erscheinen. Welche Botschaft hat Südafrika dem übrigen Afrika zu vermitteln und auf welche Weise kann der notwendige Dialog gefördert werden? (DÜI-Hlb)

Skizzierung der Langzeitstrategie direkter und indirekter Einflußnahme, die die Sowjetunion im südlichen Afrika verfolgt. Jedoch ist dieses Gebiet für sie nicht von prioritärer Bedeutung. Ihre Devise ist: Bereit sein, wenn die Zeit gekommen ist. Verfolgung einer vieldimensionalen Politik. (DÜI-Hlb)

Die veränderten parteipolitischen Mehrheiten im amerikanischen Kongreß werden vor allem in der Außenpolitik der USA deutlich werden. Möglich, daß diese auch schon vorentscheidend für die Präsidentschaftswahlen von 1988 sind. Welche außenpolitischen Folgen hat die RSA nun zu erwarten? Südafrika ist für die Vereinigten Staaten ein vergleichsweise kleines Problem, doch muß die Südafrikafrage 'am Leben gehalten' werden - andauernde und wahrscheinlich sogar verschärfte Sanktionen sind daher wahrscheinlich. (DÜI-Hlb)

In 2004 Lithuania implemented its two most important foreign policy goals -- became the member of the European Union & NATO. However, the country will now have to assert its status & position in the Euroatlantic community of liberal democracies. Lithuania faces an arguably more complex agenda, which has no clear end-goals or deadlines. The security challenges are difficult to identify & predict. The global & European strategic environment is best characterized by an ever-growing uncertainty: the transatlantic relations continue to be tense, Russia, paradoxically, is balancing between perspective of disintegration & re-emerging as an expansionist imperial power, & the European Union is under- going one of the most severe internal crisis in decades. At the same time, the major schools of international relations theory disagree on what to make out of the current world politics. Rationalist, neorealist authors tend to give alarmist, apocalyptic accounts of the future of the nation states if they despise the iron logic of geopolitics, whereas reflectivist, constructivist authors argue that the world is "what we make of it," & thus, can be changed. These two visions of international relations inevitably lead to different policy implications. The paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the authors address the current state of affairs in the two schools of international relations: rationalism (neorealism) & reflectivism (constructivism). In the second part, the authors interchangeably explore & compare the policy options that can be derived from the two different worldviews. The article concludes that international politics for a small state are more complex than either of the schools would suggest. Although the nature of the world politics is increasingly postmodern, a lot of actors still live in a modern world of geopolitics. Lithuanian decision makers will therefore have to "play" in accordance with postmodern rules when possible, but to remember geopolitics if necessary. Grounding their view on theoretical synthesis of constructivist & realist approaches to foreign policy, The authors asserts, that Lithuania's Euroatlantism should overshadow all other interests & problems of the society. The membership in the EU will have far reaching & long term consequences on Lithuanian society -- the same cannot be said about membership in NATO, or relations with the US. Lithuania must internalize the EU as a part of its corporate identity -- Lithuania is a part of Europe's collective identity. Therefore, Lithuanian political elite should cease to consider Europe as an object of Lithuanian foreign policy, rather it should become conscious itself as a subject of European policy contributing to its formation. Adapted from the source document.