Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements

By Janice Love

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813343119
• ISBN13: 9780813343112
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Overall, a good exploration of the region

I read this book as part of a class I took in the globalization of southern Africa. Overall I would suggest this book to anyone interested in the subject. It's high points include Love's synthesis of the liberation struggles of South Africa, Mozambique, and Angola -- stories which can easily become overly confusing when clarity and accuracy is lacking in their telling. Love's analysis, however, becomes somewhat unengaging by the end of the book, so additional texts may be useful as she discusses economic globalization, as Love is unable to avoid the shallow rhetoric of the pro-free market economist (however, she is able to raise successful criticisms of the one-size-fits-all policies of the IMF).