Keeping a Sharp Eye: A Century of Cartoons on South Africa's International Relations, 1910-2010

For a century cartoonists have been commenting on South Africa's international relations. Indeed, they were doing so long before the academic discipline of International Relations was born. Before think-tanks and international relations experts made their voices heard, a more subversive, and certainly more spicy, variety of understanding and criticism of international relations was at work. This was, of course, the 'sharp eye' on foreign policy and international relations, drawn in jest - and sometimes in anger - by cartoonists.This book is about how these 'other' observers have looked at and commented on South Africa's relations with the world for the past hundred years. It examines their interpretations of the unfolding events in international affairs, and also considers how these commentators and their work have interacted with the more formal understandings of foreign policy and international relations that came long after the cartoons appeared.