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Constructive engagement:
The role of the United States (Reagan’s Administration) in Black South Africa Liberation from Apartheid
"For half a century, the governments of the world have pledged to support the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ... " (Tracy Chapman at a fundraising against apartheid in South Africa)
The Reagan administration, employing what it called its policy of constructive engagement to condemn the government of South Africa was an indirect way of not condemning apartheid or an immediately halt, instead they argued that the government’s approach of quiet diplomacy will have a greater impact on apartheid than to have strict sanctions. ... Further in this paper, I intend to show the pressure of the Reagan administration to denounce apartheid was mostly from other countries openly criticizing the United States policy to South Africa. ...
Journalists Marc Cooper and Greg Godlin asked interviewed questions of Bishop Desmond Tutu from Rolling Stone reference to the role of the United States:
What do you thin of Reagan’s administration policy of constructive engagement? ... Since the Reagan administration took office, our country has seen a new Constitution which has excluded the vast majority of us- that is, seventy five percent of us from political life. ...
It is upon these conceptual bases that I have concluded and supported my thesis that as an opponent of apartheid, I decided that Reagan administration could not be loyal to its own democratic creed and at the same time provide the economic fuel for apartheid. ... Under the combined pressures of the seemingly cataclysmic events in South Africa since September 1984 and the dramatic surge of anti-apartheid protest and political activism in the United States, the Reagan Administration was finally embarrassed into brandishing some small sticks as an element of American policy.
Approximate Word count = 1716
Approximate Pages = 6.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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