South Africa in Southern Africa - Reconfiguring the Region (Paperback, illustrated edition)

Evaluates the ongoing processes of negotiation and transition within South Africa in relation to Southern Africa, in terms of demography, economics and politics. Crucial to an understanding of regional dynamics in southern Africa is the enormous asymmetry between South Africa, the demographic, economic and political core, and the other states, which themselves are remarkably heterogeneous.The difficulty, even at the level of intergovernmental relations, is how to ensure mutual benefit through enhanced interaction without suffering the strong polarization of investment and migration which undermined earlier effortsat formal regional co-operation elsewhere North America: Ohio U Press