Allies in Adversity: The Frontline States in Southern African Security 1975D1993

by Gilbert M. Khadiagala

Overview

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the alliance of southern African states known as the Frontline States (FLS) that was formed in 1975 to meet the challenges occasioned by the persistence of minority-ruled regimes in the region. After its engagement in the search for a negotiated settlement to the decolonization of Zimbabwe, the FLS_Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia_expanded its range of activities to confront threats emanating from South Africa's political, economic, and military domination. Anchored in theories of alliance formation among weak states, the book chronicles how the alliance skillfully coordinated regional and extra-regional efforts to contribute to changing the political and security landscape in southern Africa. The book takes the story of the alliance to the eve of South Africa's transformation from a post-apartheid state in the mid-1990s and efforts to build a new security and economic architecture under the rubric of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761838326
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	06/20/2007
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.05(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.98(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)

About the Author

Gilbert M. Khadiagala was recently appointed to the Chair of Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Head of Department of International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C; Kent State University, Kent, Ohio; and the University of Nairobi. Dr. Khadiagala is the author of Meddlers or Mediators? African Interveners in Civil Conflicts in Eastern Africa (2007); co-author with Ruth Iyob of Sudan: The Elusive Quest for Peace (2006); co-author with William Zartman and others, Getting In: Mediator's Entry into the Settlement of African Conflicts (2006); editor of Security Dynamics in Africa's Great Lakes Region (2006); and co-editor with Terrence Lyons of African Foreign Policies: Power and Process (2001).

Table of Contents

Part 1 List of Tables
Part 2 Abbreviations
Part 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Theoretical Approaches and Questions
Chapter 5 The Making of An Alliance, 1974–1981
Chapter 6 Angola-Namibia and Regional Security on the Southeastern Frontline, 1980–1993
Chapter 7 Mozambique and Regional Security on the Southeastern Frontline, 1980–1993
Chapter 8 Regional Security as Economic Cooperation: The Southern African Development Coordination Conference
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Whither Southern Africa?
Part 10 Bibliography
Part 11 Index