ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on New Labour's attempts to implement the idea of a 'third way' in relation to southern Africa. It suggests that although New Labour's claims about a 'third way' foreign policy have succeeded in giving Britain a higher profile in the international arena, the implementation of such a policy is intrinsically difficult. The chapter examines the way in which British foreign policy under New Labour's stewardship has affected the southern African region. It explores the concept or the third way and how such ideas have been translated into the debate about British foreign policy. The chapter is devoted to a more detailed discussion of these policies as they relate to southern Africa. It discusses how such general pronouncements relate to Africa, and people identify and elaborate on three core themes of New Labour's 'third way' in southern Africa, namely peace, prosperity and democracy.
