Publisher's Synopsis
As a culmination of a decade's research by a former senior US intelligence analyst on South African affairs, this book examines the role of domestic politics, security concerns and bureaucratic conflict in South Africa.;From his perspective as a seasoned observer of southern Africa's politics and regional security, the author presents an incisive analysis of the foreign policy process and shifting strategies under Vorster and P.W.Botha.;He shows how domestic race policies pose the dominant constraint on foreign policy and analyzes the successes and failures of Botha's destabilization strategy.;Finally he assesses the worsening policy environment facing the white minority leadership in the 1990s and its implications for regional security.;The author also wrote "South Africa in Namibia" and "Southern Africa - Regional Security Problems and Prospects".
