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Mandela's World: The International Dimension of South Africa's Political Revolution, 1990-99.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-SEP-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Mandela's World: The International Dimension of South Africa's Political Revolution, 1990-99.(Thabo Mbeki's World: The Politics and Ideology of the South African President)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Mandela's World: The International Dimension of South Africa's Political Revolution, 1990-99. James Barber. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. 256 pp.

Thabo Mbeki's World: The Politics and Ideology of the South African President. Sean Jacobs and Richard Calland, eds. New York: Zed Books, 2003. 304 pp.

These two books share similar titles. That is about all that they share. James Barber's Mandela's World is a monograph that explores South Africa's foreign policy in the context of the peaceful transition from apartheid rule to multiracial democracy. Thabo Mbeki's World is a collection of essays assessing the politics and ideology of Nelson Mandela's successor as South Africa's president. Barber explores the outside world in the context of Mandela; Calland and Jacobs and their contributors explore Mbeki as a sun around which South Africa orbits.

In addition to thematic differences, these two books deviate strikingly in tone and approach. Where Barber provides a scholars' thorough and detached (as much as detachment is possible) view of South Africa's relations with the rest of the world in the 1990s, the contributors to Calland and Jacobs are polemicists who...

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