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Article: Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Year.(Review)
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- American Political Science Review
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- March 1, 2000
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Namibia's Post-Apartheid Regional Institutions: The Founding Year. By Joshua Forrest. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1998. 4O8p. $49.95.
Over the last decade, dozens of African countries have sought to make a transition from authoritarian to democratic rule. In some countries, such as postapartheid Namibia and South Africa, the transition has been successful, while in others it has failed, stalled, or been reversed. For countries such as Namibia and South Africa, the challenge is now to consolidate fragile democracies. One aspect of this, insufficiently covered in the vast literature that has emerged to chronicle democratization in Africa, is the ...