1st Edition

Southern Africa in World Politics Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements

By Janice Love Copyright 2005
255 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

These days, politics often seem to be local and global simultaneously, challenging people, politicians, and scholars to sort out what is domestic from what is international and how the two are related. Janice Love demonstrates the complex realities of how local and global politics are intimately interwoven, sometimes inextricably so, specifically in southern Africa. In southern Africa, like many... Read more
1. Globalization and Localization * Conceptual Framework 2. The History of Southern Africa: An Overview * Early Africans and Early Europeans * Modern Globalization and Southern Africa * Contemporary Globalization in the Region 3. Old Wars Made New: Military Globalization * Contemporary Military Globalization and Southern Africa * Wars of Independence Against White Rule * Regionalized and Globalized Civil Wars: Independence and the Cold War * Regionalized and Globalized Civil Wars: After the Cold War 4. Political Globalization * Contemporary Political Globalization and Southern Africa * Global, Regional, and Local Governance * Transnational Advocacy Networks * The Impact of Individuals 5. Economic Globalization * Contemporary Economic Globalization * The Political Economy of Southern Africa * Governments Economic Policies * Poverty and Survival 6. Conclusion

Biography

Janice Love