War and peace in Southern Africa : crime, drugs, armies, and trade / Robert I. Rotberg and Greg Mills, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rotberg, Robert I.

Mills, Greg, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--Africa, Southern.

Crime.

Emigration and immigration.

Africa, Southern--Emigration and immigration.

Africa, Southern.

Southern Africa.

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ; Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation, [1998]

Summary:

The new South Africa, as well as the surrounding southern region, is finally free of apartheid and colonial rule. Civil wars have ended; democracy is everywhere. Economically, South Africa and the region are beginning to grow more rapidly than ever before. But serious impediments to sustainable growth and effective participatory government remain.

President Nelson Mandela's African National Congress won a strong victory in South Africa's 1994 elections and has governed with skill and ambition ever since. Nevertheless, crime rates have soared, as have the number of illegal and conventional small arms, car hijackings, trade in drugs, illegal immigrants, and all manner of attacks on the political and social stability of the state.

This book puts these serious societal problems in perspective and provides fresh answers and recommendations. The book includes chapters on crime rates and criminal syndicates, the proliferation of conventional arms, illegal populations movements, drug trafficking, the South African army, and regional peacekeeping.

Contents:

Introduction /Greg Mills

South Africa : crime and policing in post-apartheid South Africa / Mark Shaw

Soweto, syndicates, and "doing business" / Joan Wardrop

Shooting the golden goose : small-arms proliferation in Southern Africa / Glenn Oosthuysen

The legacy of war : the proliferation of light weapons in Southern Africa / Jacklyn Cock

From accommodation and control to control and intervention : illegal population flows into South Africa / Hussein Solomon

Regional development strategies and challenges : some economic and social underpinnings / Katherine Marshall

Drug trafficking in Southern Africa / Robert S. Gelbard

Drug abuse and drug smuggling in South Africa / C.J.D. Venter

The conceptual transformation of the South African military : changing strategy, ethos, and civil-military relations / Steven Metz

African armies and regional peacekeeping : are there African solutions to African problems? / Jeffrey Herbst

Prospects for keeping the peace in Southern Africa / Mark Malan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815775849

0815775857

OCLC:

37935184