Sweden VS Apartheid: Putting Morality ahead of Profit FROM THE PUBLISHER
Sweden vs Apartheid examines the effort by the Swedish government and civil society in Sweden in abolish the system of apartheid that was instituted in South Africa in 1948. There are many reasons why this book is important. It explores the foreign policy 'posture' of a state, looks at Sweden's neutrality policy which embraced the idea of international solidarity with weaker states and groups, and examines the first Western state to adopt an active anti-apartheid stance when such a position was quite unpopular in the West. The analysis blends both international relations and comparative political approaches to take a critical look at the role played by Sweden in the defeat of the apartheid system.
SYNOPSIS
Bangura (Center for Global Peace and international relations, American U.) examines the factors that are thought to have dictated Sweden's opposition to South Africa's apartheid system of racial discrimination and segregation, and the nature of that opposition. He considers the foreign policy posture of a state that was a great power before World War I, which included a neutrality policy that embraced the idea of international solidarity with weaker states and groups. One of his chapters looks at the assassination of Olof Palme and the Apartheid regime's connection to it; and a postscript looks at the murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, Palme's protege and an avid anti- apartheid activist. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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