This timely study categorizes the anti-apartheid movement's activities, both governmental and nongovernmental, and systematically describes them. The author focuses her analysis on the various types of sanctions used to pressure the South African Government, and evaluates the potential and actual impact of these sanctions. Also included are in-depth case studies of the campaigns of individual states and cities to divest their holdings in South Africa.

These days, politics often seem to be local and global simultaneously, challenging people, politicians, and scholars to sort out what is domestic from what is international and how the two are related. Janice Love demonstrates the complex realities of how local and global politics are intimately interwoven, sometimes inextricably so, specifically in southern Africa. In southern Africa, like many other regions, such linkages have existed for decades, if not centuries. Yet the current era is different from previous times when human communities found themselves closely intertwined. Love examines...