02579    a2200349   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020001800069037003600087040000700123041000800130072001400138072001500152072001600167072001600183072001200199072001300211072001600224072001600240072002100256072002100277072002100298072002100319072002100340072002600361100001900387245012900406250000600535260003200541300001000573520164600583131545632X20250317111559.0250312042016GB        14           eng    a9781315456324  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 48.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJW2thema7 aJPS2thema7 a1DDU2bisac7 a1QFG2bisac7 aJW2bic7 aJPS2bic7 a1DBK2bisac7 a1QFG2bisac7 aHIS0150002bisac7 aHIS0470002bisac7 aPOL0110002bisac7 aHIS0270002bisac7 aPOL0110102bisac7 a327.41068090482bisac1 aPatrick Salmon10aChallenge of Apartheid: UK–South African Relations, 1985-1986bDocuments on British Policy Overseas. Series III, Volume IX  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20161125  a622 p  bThis volume examines diplomatic relations between the United Kingdom and South Africa during one of the most turbulent periods of the apartheid era. The crisis of apartheid that began in 1984 provoked international outrage on an unprecedented scale. This volume documents the attempt by the British Government to formulate a response that would go some way towards meeting demands for action on the part of critics of South Africa in the Commonwealth, the United States and the European Community as well as in the United Kingdom itself, without at the same time inflicting unacceptable damage on Britain’s significant economic interests in South Africa. It was a process marked by frequent disagreements between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office under Sir Geoffrey Howe. The volume begins with reports of the deepening crisis at the beginning of 1985 and concludes with the Commonwealth Review Meeting in August 1986, one of the lowest of many low points in relations between the British Government and the critics of apartheid. In South Africa, meanwhile, there seemed little hope of progress following the imposition of a national state of emergency, as the confrontation between the Government and its opponents headed for deadlock and the power of the ‘securocrats’ surrounding President Botha became steadily more entrenched. This volume gives a flavour of what it was like to be a British diplomat working for change at that time. This volume will be of great interest to students of International History, British Political History, African History and International Relations in general.