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Title: | Regional Security Issues in Post Cold War Southern Africa |
Author: | Baynham, Simon |
Year: | 1994 |
Periodical: | Africanus |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 6-20 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | national security defence Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government Inter-African Relations |
Abstract: | For almost half a century since the end of World War II, intense rivalry between East and West lay at the heart of global political affairs. This article first looks at the way in which superpower competition and later cooperation manifested itself in southern Africa during these decades. Secondly, it produces an inventory of the most salient security issues currently confronting the region in the post-Cold War era, namely unrealistic expectations, nationalist/secessionist aspirations, the availability of basic infantry weaponry and the proliferation of atomic, biological and chemical weapons, the lack of employment opportunities for demobilized troops and rebels, overpopulation and environmental degradation, debt and marginalization, scarce resources, the drug market and AIDS. The conclusion is that the prospects for enduring peace in the region's lusophone States (especially Angola) are precarious, whilst the political process in South Africa remains fraught with difficulties. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |