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Post-Settlement South Africa and the Future of Southern Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 August 2021
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The birth of a more democratic South Africa will touch the sociopolitical sinews of Southern Africa deeply. Change in the faulty economic engine room of the region, the transition to accountable rule and the country’s readmission to Africa, unfold against a wider global canvas. For Southern Africa the corrosive imperatives of a New World Order may well usher in an era of further peripheralization, heightened competition and conflict between the capitalist industrial North and competing fractions of international capital over global markets and access to the economies of the developing South. The big losers may well be the developing countries of the South.
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- FOCUS: Toward a New African Political Order: African Perspectives on Democratization Processes, Regional Conflict Management
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