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The Nonsuperpowers and South Africa. Implications for U. S. Policy

Programs of structural adjustment represent external "medicine" and are dismissed as counterproductive (p. 103). What, then, are the alternatives? With both the modern state system and the capitalist global economy dominated by males, Mazrui holds out hope of fundamental reform through "partial feminization" (p. 61). "The most promising solution lies neither in a new God standard nor in a revised gold standard. It lies in the androgynization of both and in the partial feminization of the state" (p. 62). Although always interesting and provocative, Mazrui's examination of the cultural forces at work in the world is not without other difficulties. The discussion of the Soviets as a "liberating force" in Africa and Latin America (p. 109) seems incomplete in terms of the economic and social disarray of the regimes formerly committed to an AfroMarxist vision; the argument that the United States places a low priority on democracy and social justice seems curious in light of the extensive pressures—some Africans charge interference—on these issues in recent times; and the characterization of Israel as a "garrison state" fails to place that country's behavior on security issues in the context of regional wars. But the desire for a more comprehensive picture should not be allowed to obscure the broader significance of this book. By directing our attention to the relevance of culture in the new global order, Mazrui is pointing us toward a dimension that is too often overlooked in current analyses. Thus, in contending that "culture is at the heart of the nature of power in international relations" (p. 8), Mazrui is saying something critically important to us all.