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Globalization, Negotiation, and the Failure of Transformation in South Africa

Revolution at a Bargain?

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: Questions from a Gestalt Moment

  3. Promise of Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. Theory and Context

      • Michael H. Allen
      Pages 13-30
    3. Violence, Capital Flows, and Bargaining Power

      • Michael H. Allen
      Pages 31-44
    4. Revolution at a Bargain?

      • Michael H. Allen
      Pages 97-127
  4. Frustrations of Market Rule

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Globalist and Non-sexist?

      • Michael H. Allen
      Pages 131-154
    3. Negotiating Democracy

      • Michael H. Allen
      Pages 155-179
    4. Conclusion: The Failure of Transformation

      • Michael H. Allen
      Pages 181-192
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 193-236

About this book

The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.

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"A major contribution to scholarship...may well change the direction of thinking on South Africa's transition and on the nature of the post-apartheid state." - Peter Vale, Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics, Rhodes University (South Africa)

"A thoughtful and provocative analysis of the forces of globalization that both engendered the change to majority rule in South Africa but also constrained the social democratic reforms that the anti-apartheid movement had promised. Allen insightfully addresses issues of class, ethnicity, gender and nation in a post-Westphalian world." - Robert Mortimer, Professor of Political Science, Haverford College

About the author

MICHAEL H. ALLEN is Professor of Politics, Bryn Mawr College, USA.

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