In this volume, contributors explore these issues by carefully situating their analyses within the twin contexts of a changing world order and the demands for South-Africa-centered reconstruction and development.

The “New” South Africa in Africa -- Post-Apartheid South(ern) Africa in the New International Divisions of Labour and Power: How Marginal? -- South Africa’s Post-ApartheidPolitical Economy -- Backwaters and By-passes: South Africa and “Its” Region -- Regional Security: Southern Africa’s Mobile “Front Line” -- Promoting Regional Integration in Southern Africa: An Analysis of Prospects and Problems from a South African Perspective -- The Environment, Sustainable Development, and Prospects for Southern African Regional Cooperation -- Of “Growth Poles” and “Backwaters”: Emerging Uganda-South Africa Relations -- Post-Apartheid Kenya-South Africa Relations -- South Africa and Francophone African Relations -- Problems and Prospects for Nigerian-South African Relations and Their Implications for Africa’s Economic Renaissance -- The “New” South Africa in Africa: Some Tentative Conclusions and Prognostications