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This chapter’s central thesis finds its source in the organic link between ideology and social science. As with other ideologies, South Africa’s corrodes the study of International Relations. This is not surprising: in almost all cases, the discipline concerns itself with questions which are of some interest to governments.
A draft of this chapter was presented to colleagues in early December 1987. Their comments—for which I am grateful—shaped some thoughts, but it retains its original thrust.
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Vale, P. (1989). ‘Whose World is it Anyway?’ International Relations in South Africa. In: Dyer, H.C., Mangasarian, L. (eds) The Study of International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20275-1_10
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