South Africa in Southern Africa: Domestic Change and International Conflict
  • 1989/263 pages

South Africa in Southern Africa:

Domestic Change and International Conflict

Edmond J. Keller and Louis A. Picard, editors
Hardcover: $40.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-129-1
South Africa in Southern Africa critically examines the dynamics of political change and conflict in South Africa in both the domestic and international arenas. The assumption that guides the book is that, in order to understand the process of change that is currently unfolding in South Africa, one must understand not only the patterns of race, class, clientelism, and culture inside the country, but also how factors external to South Africa contribute to the debates and struggles raging domestically.

The book is divided into three major parts. The first deals with theoretical perspectives on political change in South Africa; the second with the political economy of change in the domestic arena; and the third with the interaction between domestic and international politics as they relate to South Africa.

Edmond J. Keller is professor of political science at the University of California at Los Angeles. Among his several books on African politics are Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy (coedited with Donald Rothchild) and Revolutionary Ethiopia. Louis A. Picard is director of the Ford Institute for Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.