Security and Politics in South Africa: The Regional Dimension

✍ Scribed by Peter Vale

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this analysis of South Africa's postapartheid security system, Peter Vale moves beyond a realist discussion of interacting states to examine southern Africa as an integrated whole. Vale argues that, despite South Africa's manipulation of state structures and elites in the region for its own ends, the suffering endured under the apartheid regime drew the region together at the popular level; and economic factors, such as the use of migrant labor, reinforced the process of integration. Exploring how the region is changing today—as transnational solidarity and a single regional economy remove the distinctions between national and international politics—he asks whether South African domination can finally be overcome and considers what sort of cosmopolitan political arrangement will be appropriate for southern Africa in the new century.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 New Beginning
2 The South African Moment
3 Making South Africa's Security
4 Writing Migration as Neoapartheid
5 Ordering Southern Africa
6 Continuity and Community
7 Primus Inter Pares?
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Book

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