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Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements.

Publication: African Studies Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements. Janice Love. Cambridge: Westview Press, 2005. 224 pp.

If one wants to understand the Southern African region, one needs to look at the interaction between 'global entanglements' and 'local aspirations'. This is the subtitle and the central message of Janice Love's book 'Southern Africa in World Politics'. For the military, political and economic fields she convincingly shows how global involvements influence what happens in the region and that these can have both positive and negative effects. In chapter four on 'political globalization' she illustrates the positive effects by pointing at the enormous contributions

of the international anti-apartheid lobby to end the white minority regimes in the region. In chapter three and five on military and economic globalization respectively,...

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