"A major contribution to scholarship...may well change the direction of thinking on South Africa's transition and on the nature of the post-apartheid state." - Peter Vale, Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics, Rhodes University (South Africa) "A thoughtful and provocative analysis of the forces of globalization that both engendered the change to majority rule in South Africa but ... Read morealso constrained the social democratic reforms that the anti-apartheid movement had promised. Allen insightfully addresses issues of class, ethnicity, gender and nation in a post-Westphalian world." - Robert Mortimer, Professor of Political Science, Haverford College Show Less