A long-term specialist on Southern African affairs explores the history of conflict and cooperation--showing how a landlocked small state reduced its dependency upon its neighbors in a strategically important part of Southern Africa. Drawing upon first-hand information and primary sources--interviews, personal letters, newspaper reports, archival materials, among others--this analysis of low-high politics from colonial days and independence to the present defines how political leaders and citizenry made Bostwana one of the few stable democracies in Africa--one that has improved its economy...
A long-term specialist on Southern African affairs explores the history of conflict and cooperation--showing how a landlocked small state reduced i...
This book addressees the question of why the decolonization of Namibia was delayed from 1966 to 1989, the period of the war of independence, pitting the Namibian nationalists against the South African minority-ruled regime. The question is approached in terms of the diplomatic, economic, and military campaigns of the Namibian and South African protagonists. Such a framework facilitates comparison with several other decolonization wars that are referred to in the text. In addition, the book examines the aftermath of that war in Namibia in terms of the diplomatic, economic, and military changes...
This book addressees the question of why the decolonization of Namibia was delayed from 1966 to 1989, the period of the war of independence, pitting t...
