International Trade Policy and Class Dynamics in South Africa: The Economic Partnership Agreement

Chapter 1: Introduction and Theoretical Focus

Scope of the Book and the Research Question

Theoretical Framework

Historical-Materialist Policy Analysis and South Africa's Specific Situation

Structure of the Book

Part 1: South Africa's Political Economy

Chapter 2: National Context: Contemporary South African Capitalism, the State and its policy

Point of Departure: Economic and Trade Policy during Apartheid (1948-1990)

From RDP to AsgiSA: All about Growth

Black Economic Empowerment

Second Decade: Growth, Industrial and Trade Policy

Economic and Political Turmoil

Chapter 3: Transnational Context: International Trade Relations

South Africa and the WTO

South Africa and BRICS

South Africa in Africa and the Region

South Africa's Trade Relations with the European Union

Part II: South Africa's Class Relations in Economic and Trade Policy

Chapter 4: South African Capitalist Classes: from Mining to Agriculture

Mining Capital as the Core of the South African Economy

Manufacturing Capital - Vocal and Organised?

Finance and Banking Capital

Agricultural Capital

Business Representation: Clash of Capital Interests?

Chapter 5: South Africa's Political Elite and its Political Objectors

The ANC as the Political Elite and its Relation to Workers and Capitalists

The Alliance Partners: the SACP and COSATU

Chapter 6: South Africa's Popular Classes

Working Classes, their Fractions and Representatives

Subaltern Classes beyond Working Class

Chapter 7: South Africa's Economic State Apparatuses

The Presidency and National Treasury

Department of Trade and Industry and Further Relevant Departments

Parliament and NEDLAC

Beyond the State Apparatus: Trade Policy Related Organisations

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

Chapter 8: The EU-SADC EPA: Road Map and Conflicts (2006-2010)

Chapter 9: Class Fractions Perspectives on the Conflicting EPA Issues

Conflicts over Trade in Goods

Conflicts over Deep Integration Issues

The (Unspoken) Class Compromise

Chapter 10: Restart of the EU-SADC EPA Negotiation and its Outcome

The Final EPA: Changes in the Relationship of Forces

Why a EU-SADC EPA Agreement?

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Neo-Poulantzian Perspectives on the South African State

The (Non) Future of the New Trade Agenda?