Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid: South Africa and World Politics

ISBN-13: 9780333981238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str.

Adrian Guelke

Opis

A major new text by a leading authority reassesses the nature, endurance and significance of apartheid in South Africa as well as the reasons for its dramatic collapse. Paying particular attention to the international dimension as well as the domestic, the author assesses the impact of anti-apartheid protest, of changing attitudes of Western governments to the apartheid regime and the evolution of South African government policies to the outside world.

Spis treści

Preface.- Introduction: Apartheid's Global Significance.- The Debate on the Nature of South Africa's Racial Policies: Totalitarian or Colonial?.- Origins of Racial Policy: Consequence of an Imperialist War or the Prejudice of the Frontier?.- Segregation: Home-grown or Imported?.- The Theory and Practice of Apartheid: Was There a Blueprint?.- South Africa in a Post-Colonial World: Modernising or Eroding Apartheid?.- From Vorster to Botha: New Departure or Militarised Cul de Sac?.- The Pursuit of a Negotiated Settlement: Choice or Necessity?.- The Unexpected Transition to Majority Rule: Analysing a Miracle?.- The Worldwide Anti-Apartheid Movement: Peripheral or Crucial?.- Conclusion: Taking the Long View on Apartheid's Demise.

O autorze

ADRIAN GUELKE is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University, Belfast. He was previously Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations, University of Witwatersrand. He is editor of the South African Journal of International Relations and is author of many books including South Africa in Transition.