Bridging The Rift: The New South Africa In Africa

by Larry Swatuk

Overview

This book explores the repercussions, prospects for political and economic development, security consequences, and casualties of the social, political and economic interactions between the hobbled leviathan of the South Africa and its continental neighbours. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367159993
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/21/2020
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.81(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Larry A. Swatukis a lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of, among other things, Contending Theories of Between Choice in a Hard Place: International Relations (1991). David R. Black is Assistant Professor of Political Science and a Fellow of the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. His publications include work on “middle powers'’ and Southern Mrica, and the Commonwealth and South Mrica. He is Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa, 1996-97.

Table of Contents

1. The "New" South Africa in Africa 2. Post-Apartheid South( ern) Africa in the New International Divisions of Labour and Power: How Marginal? 3. South Africa's Post-Apartheid Political Economy 4. Backwaters and By-passes: South Africa and "Its" Region 5. Regional Security: Southern Africa's Mobile "Front Line" 6. Promoting Regional Integration in Southern Africa: An Analysis of Prospects and Problems from a South African Perspective 7. The Environment, Sustainable Development, and Prospects for Southern African Regional Cooperation 8. Of "Growth Poles" and "Backwaters": Emerging Uganda-South Africa Relations 9. Post-Apartheid Kenya-South Africa Relations 10. South Africa and Francophone African Relations 11. Problems and Prospects for Nigerian-South African Relations and Their Implications for Africa's Economic Renaissance 12. The "New" South Africa in Africa: Some Tentative Conclusions and Prognostications