War and Peace in Southern Africa
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War and Peace in Southern Africa

Crime, Drugs, Armies, Trade

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War and Peace in Southern Africa

Crime, Drugs, Armies, Trade

About this book


A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publication
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 a concluding chapter on African armies and regional peacekeeping.



The contributors are Jacklyn Cock, University of the Witwatersrand; Robert Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for Drug Enforcement and Legal Affairs; Jeffrey Herbst, Princeton University; Mark Malan, Mark Shaw, and Hussein Solomon, Institute for Security Studies; Katherine Marshall, the World Bank; Steven Metz, U.S. Army War College; Greg Mills and Glenn Oosthuysen, South African Institute of International Affairs; C.J.D. Venter, South African Police Service; and Joan Wardrop, Curtin University, Australia.



Copublished with the World Peace Foundation

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. 1. Introduction
  3. 2. South Africa: Crime and Policing in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  4. 3. Soweto, Syndicates, and “Doing Business”
  5. 4. Shooting the Golden Goose: Small-Arms Proliferation in Southern Africa
  6. 5. The Legacy of War: The Proliferation of Light Weapons in Southern Africa
  7. 6. From Accommodation and Control to Control and Intervention: Illegal Population Flows into South Africa
  8. 7. Regional Development Strategies and Challenges: Some Economic and Social Underpinnings
  9. 8. Drug Trafficking in Southern Africa
  10. 9. Drug Abuse and Drug Smuggling in South Africa
  11. 10. The Conceptual Transformation of the South African Military: Changing Strategy, Ethos, and Civil–Military Relations
  12. 11. African Armies and Regional Peacekeeping: Are There African Solutions to African Problems?
  13. 12. Prospects for Keeping the Peace in Southern Africa
  14. About the Authors
  15. The World Peace Foundation