An up to date survey of political and economic trends in the Southern African region. The volume adopts an area studies approach and explores fresh analytical perspectives to understand change in the region in the light of the end of the Cold War and the decline of super-power involvement in its affairs.

Introduction; P.B.Rich - The Search for Security in Southern Africa; P.B.Rich - South African Policy and Southern African Regional Integration; P.B.Rich - The Power of Colonial Nationalism in shaping Post Colonial South Africa; D.Schreuder - Bargaining Environments of a Post-Apartheid State: Market and Ethnic Dimensions; M.H.Allen - It is too soon to start devising historical explanations for the end of apartheid?; N.Etherington - Beyond Reform: Adjustment and Political Power in Contemporary Mozambique; M.L.Bowen - From the MNR to RENAMO: making sense of an African counter-revolutionary insurgency; T.Young - Angola and Southern Africa: the Dynamics of Change; M.Venancio - Politics since Independence in Namibia; A.du Pisani - The Diplomatic Styles of Zambia and Zimbabwe; S.Chan - Still South Africa's Hostages: the BLS States in a Changing Southern Africa; J.Polhemus

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