Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Providing a much-needed antidote to recent revisionist attempts to 'rehabilitate' apartheid, this major new text by a leading authority offers a considered and substantive reassessment of 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.
About the Author
Adrian Guelke is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University, Belfast. He is also the editor of the
South African Journal of International Relations.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Totalitarian or Colonial: South Africa's Racial Policies * Origins: Imperialism, Gold and Segregation * Apartheid from Slogan to Policy * Modernisation, Sharpeville and Defiance * Wooing the West * War and Revolution in Southern Africa * The End of the Cold War and South Africa's Liberalisation * The Transnational Anti-Apartheid Movement * The Unexpected Transition * Rethinking Apartheid