Abstract
Conflict between South Africa and its neighbours1 is endemic, pervasive, and costly. On the face of it, the ‘contest’ is hopelessly uneven, with Pretoria having all the advantages. The neighbouring states are, in a sense, unavoidably ‘victims’ of the conflagration on the southernmost tip of the continent. However, the ramifications of the southern African conflict extend far beyond the region itself, implicating powerful third parties, and creating strategic problems — and opportunities — for the weaker states.
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See J. Hanlon, Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), chs. 11 and 12.
J. Marcum, The Angolan Revolution, Vol. II (New York: Hoover Institution, 1978);
G. Bender, J. Coleman and R. Sklar, African Crisis Areas and United States Foreign Policy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986).
See P. Frankel, Pretoria’s Praetorians: civil-military relations in South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984); and Davies and O’Meara, op. cit. note 3 above.
J. Halpern, South Africa’s Hostages: Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965).
See A. Seidmann, The Roots of Crisis in Southern Africa (New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1986), p. 8, and New York Times, 6, 9 and 12, 1986.
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Nolutshungu, S.C. (1988). Strategy and Power: South Africa and Its Neighbours. In: Johnson, S. (eds) South Africa: No Turning Back. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19499-5_11
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