South Africa's Destabilization of Zimbabwe, 1980-89 FROM THE PUBLISHER
In the last decades South Africa's crisis ridden apartheid regime sought to roll back the liberation process and extend the period of white supremacy through a series of strategies in the 1970s: dialogue, constructive engagement; the Constellation of Southern Africa States. The failure of these strategies and increasing domestic and external pressures forced the regime to embarked on the total strategy and its policy of destabilization of neighboring states. The book analyzes the impact of destabilization on Zimbabwe.
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Analyzes South Africa's destabilization of Zimbabwe as part of a strategy to extend the period of white supremacy and slow the liberation process. Dzimba (international politics, National U. of Zimbabwe) examines the implications of Pretoria's political intentions and motivations, including the question of why Pretoria considered Zimbabwe's independence a threat to its economic and political interests. He also outlines Zimbabwe's defense and security policy in the context of the South African threat and the overall economic and social impact of destabilization. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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