South Africa: In Transition to What? (Sexual Medicine)
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ISBN: 0275929744 / Publisher: Holtzbrinck, February 1988
There can be no doubt that South Africa is now in a state of transition, but consensus is lacking on analogies, dynamics, options, and prospects. In this unique volume, editor Helen Kitchen brings together eleven contributors representing diverse professional and geographical positions to focus their expertise on specific critical segments of the puzzle from which South Africa's future will be assembled.
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The contributors come from a range of backgrounds, but meet one imperative qualification: residence or repeated physical presence in South Africa. By bringing together this notable collection of authors, Kitchen impresses upon readers (especially Americans) that the South Africa that will emerge from today's strife will be determined primarily by internal factors. As this volume notes, recent evidence suggests that externally devised initiatives such as Eminent Persons interlocutors, constructive engagement, disinvestment, and economic sanctions can affect but not mandate how or whether South Africa's fractured society can find a way to avoid a lemmings scenario. Policy makers, policy analysts, and other actors both in the U.S. government and policy community concerned with what is going on inside South Africa today will find South Africa to be provocative reading.
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