Traditionally, situated outside NATO’s geographic and defence remit, apartheid-era South Africa engaged in restricted and covert Cold War-era cooperation with select members of the alliance as a countermeasure to Soviet influence. Never authentically anchored near the NATO harbour or viewed as a prospective member, apartheid Pretoria pursued strategic autonomy, select economic ties, regional hegemony, non-alignment, […] The post South Africa’s strategic balance: a path to reshaped NATO ...
