Table of Contents

Introduction
I CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT & SOUTH AFRICA The aims of constructive engagement
Resisting sanctions: 'constructive economic engagement?'
Further debates in Washington
Pretoria's perspective
Competing agendas within South Africa
Constructive engagement inside South Africa: addressing local realities?
II LINKAGE: SOUTH AFRICA, ANGOLA & NAMIBIA Washington's interests & Crocker's linkage strategy
Pretoria & UNITA: the beneficiaries of linkage?
Linkage policy undermined: destabilization & the funding of UNITA
Factors behind the Angolan/Namibian settlement
Effects of the settlement on less powerful actors
III CONCLUSION Successes & failures of constructive engagement
Implications for today's policy makers

Reviews

A well-written, thoroughly documented case study of US foreign policy. Recommended.
*CHOICE*

Her analysis focuses on the role of Dr Chester Crocker, President Reagan's policy of constructive engagement and Crocker's role in particular.' -
*Professor J.E. Spence, OBE, King's College, London*