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James J. Hentz, Associate Professor of International Studies at the Virginia Military Institute, is co-editor (with Morten Boas) of New and Critical Security and Regional-ism: Beyond the Nation State.

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<p>This book is a well--researched, in--depth study of the conditions through which the post--apartheid South African state has been defining and assuming its Southern Africa economic policy of regional integration and economic cooperation, in general and in particular as an integral member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). James Hentz, an associate professor of international studies at the Virginia Military Institute, looks at the ways, means, and dynamics of how the most important South African social and political actors, including the African National Congress (ANC), the still--powerful Afrikaans bureaucracy of the old apartheid state, what he calls big capital, organized labor, and other old and new social movements compete and interact among themselves and in relation to the state to impose their interests, objectives, ideology, and institutions on the country's regional policy. The book is also an important contribution to understanding, over and above the rhetoric of public political discourses, the local conditions, the regional and global limitations, the manipulations, and the compromises through which the ANC is charting and implementing, often not without confusion, South African policies today... Hentz's book is an important, multifaceted contribution to the understanding of today's political realities in South Africa within the interrelated contexts of both the Southern Africa region and the neo--liberalized, structurally adjusted world economy.--SAfrica October, 2006

<p> This book is a well -- researched, in -- depth study of the conditionsthrough which the post -- apartheid South African state has been defining andassuming its Southern Africa economic policy of regional integration and economiccooperation, in general and in particular as an integral member of the SouthernAfrican Development Community (SADC). James Hentz, an associate professor ofinternational studies at the Virginia Military Institute, looks at the ways, means, and dynamics of how the most important South African social and political actors, including the African National Congress (ANC), the still -- powerful Afrikaansbureaucracy of the old apartheid state, what he calls big capital, organized labor, and other old and new social movements compete and interact among themselves and inrelation to the state to impose their interests, objectives, ideology, andinstitutions on the country's regional policy. The book is also an importantcontribution to understanding, over and above the rh

This book is a well-researched, in-depth study of the conditions through which the post-apartheid South African state has been defining and assuming its Southern Africa economic policy of regional integration and economic cooperation, in general and in particular as an integral member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). James Hentz, an associate professor of international studies at the Virginia Military Institute, looks at the ways, means, and dynamics of how the most important South African social and political actors, including the African National Congress (ANC), the still-powerful Afrikaans bureaucracy of the old apartheid state, what he calls big capital, organized labor, and other old and new social movements compete and interact among themselves and in relation to the state to impose their interests, objectives, ideology, and institutions on the country's regional policy. The book is also an important contribution to understanding, over and above the rhetoric of public political discourses, the local conditions, the regional and global limitations, the manipulations, and the compromises through which the ANC is charting and implementing, often not without confusion, South African policies today... Hentz's book is an important, multifaceted contribution to the understanding of today's political realities in South Africa within the interrelated contexts of both the Southern Africa region and the neo-liberalized, structurally adjusted world economy. -SAfrica October, 2006

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James J. Hentz, Associate Professor of International Studies at the Virginia Military Institute, is co-editor (with Morten Boas) of New and Critical Security and Regionalism: Beyond the Nation State.

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