South Africa's Brittle Peace

PIERRE DU TOIT is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1992 he was awarded a Peace Fellowship from the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the Untied States Institute of Peace in Washington. His most recent book is State Building and Democracy in Southern Africa: Botwsana, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

• Preface Acknowledgements The Peace Process and the State PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEACE PROCESS The Violent Transition Negotiating Amidst Violence PART II: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN PEACE PROCESS Violence and the Rules of War Why the Negotiations Succeeded The Role of Negotiated Institutions, the Economy and External Actors Popular Responses and Symbolic Politics The Brittle Peace Appendix: Chronology Index

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