Rethinking the Rise and Fall of Apartheid South Africa and World Politics

A major new text by a leading authority reassesses the nature, endurance and significance of apartheid in South Africa as well as the reasons for its dramatic collapse. Paying particular attention to the international dimension as well as the domestic, the author assesses the impact of anti-apartheid protest, of changing attitudes of Western governments to the apartheid regime and the evolution of South African government policies to the outside world.

Adrian Guelke is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University, Belfast. He is also the editor of the South African Journal of International Relations.