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Title: | Southern African Responses to Eastern European Developments |
Author: | Anglin, Douglas G. |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 28 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 431-455 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Southern Africa Eastern Europe |
Subjects: | politics democracy economic policy international relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161228 |
Abstract: | The cumulative impact of the tumultuous changes in Eastern Europe on opinions and perceptions throughout black Southern Africa has been pervasive and profound. The influence has been particularly evident where the lessons from Eastern European experiences have been reinforced and have legitimized existing reformist trends. While not every revolutionary manifestation emanating from Eastern Europe is equally pertinent to the particular predicaments of Southern Africans, there is growing recognition that a number of issue areas are of special relevance. These are, in rough rank order of salience: 1) the global division of resources: the competitive claims of Africa and Eastern Europe upon available Western aid, investment, and attention; 2) political freedom (glasnost): democracy in contrast to dictatorship, and especially political pluralism as opposed to the one-party State; and 3) the management of national economies (perestroika): the shortcomings of State intervention compared with the perils of a free-market economy as paths to economic recovery. Despite the ferment that has spread to much of Southern Africa in the wake of the events in Eastern Europe, the specific reforms that can be directly attributed to contagion are so far comparatively few. Notes, ref. |