This book provides readers with the first comprehensive study of South Africäs foreign policy conducted in a multilateral setting, by placing on record over 1000 of South Africäs votes at the United Nations over a 20 year period. The study investigates consistency in terms of South Africäs declared foreign policy and its actual voting practices at the United Nations. Democratic South Africäs Foreign Policy: Voting Behaviour in the United Nations offers a compendium of South Africäs United Nations behaviour during a poignant transitional period in the country¿s recent history. In setting out a framework for analysing the conduct of other countries¿ voting behaviour in parallel with