International Trade Policy and Class Dynamics in South Africa: The Economic Partnership Agreement 1st Edition Simone Claar (Auth.)

1. Introduction and Theoretical Focus

Part I. South Africa’s Political Economy

2. National Context: Contemporary South African Capitalism, the State and Its Policy

3. Transnational Context: International Trade Relations

Part II. South Africa’s Class Relations in Economic and Trade Policy

4. South African Capitalist Classes: From Mining to Agriculture

5. South Africa’s Political Elite and Its Political Objectors

6. South Africa’s Popular Classes

7. South Africa’s Economic State Apparatuses

Part III. Reconstructing the Process: South Africa’s Classes and the Economic Partnership Agreement

8. The EU–SADC EPA: Road Map and Conflicts (2006–2010)

9. Class Fraction Perspectives on the Conflicting EPA Issues

10. Restart of the EU–SADC EPA Negotiation and Its Outcome

11. Conclusion