Security and politics in South Africa : The regional dimension

Abstract

In this analysis of South Africa's postapartheid security system. Peter Vale moves beyond a realist discussion of interacting states to examine southern Africa as an integrated whole. Vale argues, that despite South Africa's manipulation of state structures and elites in the region for its own ends, the suffering endured under the apartheid regime drew the region together at the popular the process of integration. Exploring how the region economy remove the distinctions between national and international politics he asks whether South Africa domination can finally be overcome and considers what sort of cosmopolitan political arrangement will be appropriate for southern Africa in the new century.