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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451139903321

Autore

Allen Michael H. <1952->

Titolo

Globalization, negotiation, and the failure of transformation in South Africa [[electronic resource] ] : revolution at a bargain? / / Michael H. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36970-5

9786611369705

1-4039-8307-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 236 pages)

Disciplina

330.968

Soggetti

Globalization - Economic aspects - South Africa

Globalization - Social aspects - South Africa

Globalization - Political aspects - South Africa

Free enterprise - South Africa

Debts, External - South Africa

Electronic books.

South Africa Economic conditions 1991-

South Africa Economic policy

South Africa Foreign economic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction : questions from a gestalt moment -- 2. Theory and context -- 3. Violence, capital flows, and bargaining power -- 4. Financial globalization, debt negotiations, and reform in South Africa -- 5. Negotiating economic justice : globalization or socialism? -- 6. Revolution at a bargain? -- 7. Globalist and non-sexist? -- 8. Negotiating democracy -- 9. Conclusion : the failure of transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

The book explains the social forces, forms of consciousness and structural constraints that undermined Apartheid, preserved national unity and yet, later constrained democratic sovereignty, as the imperatives of global markets clashed with the prior aspirations of the democratic revolution.