South Africa - In Transition to What?

The contributors come from a range of backgrounds, but meet one imperative qualification: residence or repeated physical presence in South Africa. By bringing together this notable collection of authors, Kitchen impresses upon readers (especially Americans) that the South Africa that will emerge from today's strife will be determined primarily by internal factors. As this volume notes, recent evidence suggests that externally devised initiatives such as Eminent Persons interlocutors, constructive engagement, disinvestment, and economic sanctions can affect but not mandate how or whether South Africa's fractured society can find a way to avoid a lemmings scenario. Policy makers, policy analysts, and other actors both in the U.S. government and policy community concerned with what is going on inside South Africa today will find South Africa to be provocative reading.

About the author

HELEN KITCHEN is Director of African Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Product details

• Assisted by: Helen Kitchen (Editor), Kitchen Helen (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.1988
• EAN: 9780275929756
• ISBN: 978-0-275-92975-6
• Series: Praeger Security International
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Republic of South Africa, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, security studies