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Article: Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa.(Review)
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PETER BATCHELOR and SUSAN WILLET, Disarmament and Defence: industrial adjustment in South Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Stockholm: International Peace Research Institute, 1998, 249 pp., 30.00 [pounds sterling], ISBN 0 19 829413 1.
This is an important and topical book. After a decade of drastic defence cuts, South Africa remains the largest developing country arms producer and Africa's most aggressive arms exporter. More than half a decade into ANC rule, a substantial force modernisation is being driven through, justified in part by counter-trade deals or `offsets' that are designed to produce a windfall of inward investment and industrial ...