Ending autocracy, enabling democracy : the tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000 / Robert I. Rotberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotberg, Robert I.

Contributor:

World Peace Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Africa, Southern.

Democracy.

Democratization.

Southern Africa.

Democratization--Africa, Southern.

Africa, Southern--Politics and government--1975-1994.

Africa, Southern.

Politics and government.

Africa, Southern--Politics and government--1994-.

Africa, Southern--Economic conditions--1975-1994.

Economic conditions.

Africa, Southern--Economic conditions--1994-.

Physical Description:

viii, 546 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2002]

Summary:

Robert I. Rotherg has been an observer of and participant in the evolution of southern Africa for over forty years. In this book he charts the process of freeing southern Africa and analyzes its troublesome aftermath, from the first heady days of independence through the frustrating failures of modernization, merciless civil wars, and despotism and the collapse of states. The second half of his book is about the eventual triumph of justice over apartheid and the growing support throughout southern Africa for participatory democracy instead of kleptocracy and autocracy.

Reflective overviews introduce contemporaneous opinion pieces written for newspapers and periodicals in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Rotberg writes with the dual intent of advocacy and explanation: to broaden public awareness and understanding of the trials and tribulations of southern Africa, thereby influencing informed policymaking in African capitals, London, Paris, and Washington. The result, from the pen of someone intimately acquainted with many of the personalities and events of recent decades, is an extended personal examination and re-examination of the political and economic development of southern Africa from 1960 to 2000.

Contents:

Engaging, explaining, entreating Southern Africa

Part 1. The new Africa : euphoria, kleptomania, and charisma

Decolonization and the debut of democracy and authoritarianism

From settler Rhodesia to Arican Zimbabwe

Zambia : promise foregone

The battle for Southern Africa : Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, and Namibia

Making the further transition to democracy

Grandiosity and greed : Zimbabwe

Part 2. Freeing South Africa from the yoke of Apartheid

Separate development and other Apartheid contortions

Divestment and disinvestment

Mailed fist and velvet glove

The townships erupt

The demise of Apartheid

Freedom and independence

Mandela and Mbeki

Part 3. Conclusion

Establishing democracy and encouraging prosperity in Southern Africa and Africa

Postscript

Opinion pieces, 1960-2000.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-531) and index.

ISBN:

0815775830

OCLC:

47767193