Soldiers In A Storm : The Armed Forces In South Africa's Democratic Transition

Soldiers In A Storm: The Armed Forces In South Africa's Democratic Transition Is A Study Of The Role Of The Military In The Creation And Development Of South Africa's New Post-apartheid System. Philip Frankel Asserts That The Armed Forces Played A Far Greater Role In The End Of Apartheid Than Is Currently Acknowledged In The Literature And That The Relatively Peaceful Negotiations That Ended Apartheid Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Participation Of The South African National Defense Force And Two Major Liberation Armies. Frankel Also Examines The Topics Of Military Disengagement, Civilianization, Post-authoritarian Political Behavior On The Part Of Militaries, And The Process Of Democratic Consolidation. He Also Discusses How Many Of These Themes Have Been Explored In The Context Of Latin America, And He Points Out That This Is The Only Book That Places These Themes Within The Context Of South Africa. This Is An Important Case Study With Universal Implications.--jacket. Negotiation: Forging The Military Pact -- Prelude: Talks About Talks, 1991-1993 -- Round One: Admiralty House, Blenny, And The First Bilaterals -- Scoring Points: Mid-1993 -- Forging Consensus: The Run-up To Elections -- Transitional Arrangements: The Scd And Jmcc -- Caesarian Section: The Birth Of The South African National Defence Force -- Soft Options: The Tbvcs -- Hards Cases: The Liberation Armies -- A Balance Sheet: Has Integration Worked? -- Smoke And Mirrors: Transforming The Armed Forces -- Institutional Reengineering: The Agenda -- Bureaucratic Control: Dod, Mod, And The Defence Secretariat -- Parliamentary Oversight: The Jpscd -- Constitutional Prescription: Human Rights And Military Law -- The Politics Of Gender -- Reacculturation: Toward A New Civil-military Relationship? -- Guns And Butter: Social Reconstruction And Rearmament -- Out Of Pocket: The Defense Budget -- Internal Deployment: The Service Corps And Collateral Utility -- External Deployment: The Dilemmas Of Peacekeeping -- Bloc Obsolescence And Rearmament -- Epilogue: Beyond The Millennium. Philip Frankel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 219-235) And Index. This text considers the dual aspect of Latin American development: how external factors (phases of world capitalism since Columbus) interweave with internal factors (Latin American culture, politics, and social groups)