The Last Trek-- a New Beginning

The Last Trek-- a New Beginning
Author: Frederik Willem De Klerk
Publisher: St Martins Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312223106

The Last Trek -- A New Beginning is a frank and revealing autobiography that reflects both the author and his role during a remarkable period in history. On becoming State President of South Africa in 1989, F. W. de Klerk set about dismantling apartheid. By releasing Nelson Mandela from prison in February 1990, he set in motion a chain of events which would lead to the first fully democratic elections in South Africa's history. This is the long-awaited inside story of the South African miracle by the man who sacrificed his own power to make it happen. De Klerk relates numerous anecdotes, personal behind-the-scenes observations and impressions of Mandela as well as other figures who have dominated recent South African history. He also provides a fascinating insight into the workings of power and the mechanics of historic change.

The Last Trek - a New Beginning

The Last Trek - a New Beginning
Author: F. W. De Klerk
Publisher: Pan Books Limited
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780330369602

The former president of South Africa describes his life and political career, documenting the changes in South Africa, including the end of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and the country's first true democratic elections in 1984.

Partner to History

Partner to History
Author: Princeton Nathan Lyman
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781929223367

A remarkable book about a remarkable time, Partner to History reveals the role played by U.S. diplomacy in South Africa's surprisingly successful transition from apartheid to democracy. Princeton Lyman, the U.S. ambassador during the transition, makes clear that America didn't "own" the transition process-the South Africans did. But U.S. involvement was active and intense. And it made a difference. Lyman tells an enthralling story of how Washington policymakers and the American embassy used U.S. influence, economic assistance, and political support to help end apartheid without sparking civil war. The book offers candid assessments both of U.S. policy deliberations and of the leading players in the unfolding, unpredictable drama. It takes us behind the diplomatic scenes as well as onto the public stage, as American diplomats strove to facilitate dialogue, encourage reconciliation, and dissuade potential spoilers.

A Concise History of the Modern World

A Concise History of the Modern World
Author: W. Woodruff
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230554660

By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world view - which this book provides - has become acute.

Earthin a New Beginning

Earthin a New Beginning
Author: Chasta Omstead
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2003-07
Genre:
ISBN: 1410746224

The so-called "Mob" ran the town and owned all the cops, politicians, attorneys, courts, and judges. The cops murdered more guys than the mob did and scattered their dead bodies all over the vast parched desert. The cops and Mob knocked the guys off. The overwhelmingly corrupt courts, judges, and D.A.'s office, and alleged prosecutors let them get away with it, and the despicable news media covered it all up--.

Israel/Palestine and the Politics of a Two-State Solution

Israel/Palestine and the Politics of a Two-State Solution
Author: Thomas G. Mitchell
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2013-05-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0786475978

This is a dispassionate examination of the viability of a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the politics of Israel, Palestine and the United States. It includes instructive case studies from South Africa in Namibia and the Irish claim to Northern Ireland. The results of Israeli elections from 2001 to 2013 are analyzed (with the conclusion that the Likud will be in any government coalition for at least the midterm future, giving it a veto over policy). A chapter examining the history and ideology of the secular right over the last 90 years follows. There are three chapters of case studies: the Likud withdrawal from the Sinai in 1979-1982 and from Gaza in 2005, the withdrawal of South Africa from Namibia in 1988-1989, and the dropping of Ireland's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland in 1998 under a Fianna Fail government--the same party that wrote the constitution in 1937. A chapter examines Palestinian politics since the mandatory era and another, the American-Israeli alliance and American politics. A concluding chapter draws lessons from the case studies and the analysis.

The Crisis of South African Foreign Policy

The Crisis of South African Foreign Policy
Author: Matthew Graham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0857739484

The emergence of a 'new' democratic South Africa under Nelson Mandela was regarded as a high watermark for international ideals of human rights and democracy. Much was expected of the ANC in power, particularly that it would be able to translate its ideals into a coherent foreign policy for the African continent. Yet its foreign policy since 1994 has been mired in accusations of incoherence, contradiction and failure. Here, based on extensive archival research and interviews, Matthew Graham offers new ways of interpreting South Africa's foreign policy by investigating the continuities and discontinuities of the ANC's international relations - from exile to political power. Charting the political intrigues during the country's transition from apartheid, and the subsequent influences on Presidents Mandela and Mbeki, The Crisis of South African Foreign Policy makes a vital contribution to our understanding of why post-apartheid South Africa has failed to lead Africa on the world stage.

Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy

Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy
Author: Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113622582X

This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions. High-profile applications of economic statecraft have yielded varying degrees of success. The mixed record of economic incentives and economic sanctions in many cases raises important questions. Under what conditions can states modify the behaviour of other states by offering them tangible economic rewards or by threatening to disrupt existing economic relations? To what extent does the success of economic statecraft depend on the magnitude of economic penalties and rewards? In order to answer these questions, this book develops two analytic models: one weighs the threats economic statecraft poses to the Target’s Strategic Interests (TSI); while the other (stateness) assesses the degree to which the target state is insulated from domestic political pressures that senders attempt to generate or exploit. Through a series of carefully crafted case studies, including African apartheid and Japanese incentives to obtain the return of the Northern Territories, the authors demonstrate how their model can yield important policy insights in regards to contemporary economic sanctions and incentives cases, such as Iran and North Korea. This book will be of much interest to students of statecraft, sanctions, diplomacy, foreign policy, and international security in general.

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa

Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Author: Kenneth Kalu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319964968

This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu’s Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies.

Kissinger, Angola and US-African Foreign Policy

Kissinger, Angola and US-African Foreign Policy
Author: Steven O'Sullivan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351022776

Analysing US foreign policy towards Angola during the Ford administration, this book provides an intriguing insight into one of the most avoidable and unfortunate episodes in Cold War history and explores the impact on Henry Kissinger’s much vaunted reputation for being guided by realist principles. Kissinger has dominated political discourse and scholarship on US foreign policy since the 1970s, but although his legacy continues to generate controversy, little attention has been paid to the influence of Vietnam’s collapse on the US decision to covertly intervene in the Angolan civil war. This book argues that Kissinger’s concern for personal reputation and US credibility following the collapse of Vietnam led to a harmful and unrealistic policy toward Angola. Exposure of US covert intervention exacerbated domestic and international political tensions and the subsequent showdown between the excutive and legislative branches ironically resulted in Kissinger proclaiming a new departure in US–African relations. Thus, it is argued that Kissinger was an ‘unintentional realist’ rather than an intellectual proponent of realpolitik. Enhancing our understanding of Kissinger, his relationship with his subordinates and with Congress, and his approach to foreign policy, this book will be of interest to scholars of Cold War history, US foreign policy and all those fascinated by the personality of Henry Kissinger.