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Geography and public policy

The stage on which state policies are determined and implemented has dramatically changed in the last five years. The collapse of state communist regimes in eastern Europe and the ending of apartheid in South Africa are visible symbols of this change, which carry in their wake opportunities for a reordering of public policies to use the ’peace dividend’ and, for South Africa’s neighbours, to pursue national priorities in a less intimidating geopolitical context. More broadly, shifts in the framework for public policy formulation