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JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY APPEARS TO BE IN TRANSITION. AFTER FORTY YEARS OF GIVING PRIORITY TO A SATELLITE STRATEGY VIS-A-VIS THE UNITED STATES AND A POWER-MAXIMIZER STRATEGY VIS-A-VIS THE REST OF THE WORLD, THERE ARE SIGNS OF MOVEMENT TOWARDS GREATER EMPHASIS ON A COMMUNITY STRENGTH INSURANCE STRATEGY. THE CHANGE BEGAN SLOWLY IN RESPONSE TO A MANIFEST DECLINE IN AMERICAN BENEVOLENCE AND HAS BECOME A LITTLE MORE RAPID DUE TO THE US-USSR ENTENTE AND THE GREATER CREDIBILITY OF THE UNITED NATIONS AS A DIPLOMATIC FORUM.

IN THE CURRENT WAVE OF DEREGULATION AND PRIVATIZATION, IN THE ATTACK ON LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES, AND IN THE GENERAL REASSERTION OF INDIVIDUALIST LIBERALISM AS A CURE FOR EUROSCLEROSIS, EUROPEANS MAY BE SEEING NOT JUST A KINK IN THE LONG-TERM EGALITARIAN, REDISTRIBUTIVE, INTERVENTIONIST TREND BUT ITS DEFINITE REVERSAL.

BOTHA, A 'FREESTATER' WHO BECAME A PARTY ORGANIZER IN THE CAPE, AN APPARATCHIK OF THE NATIONAL PARTY, AN ENIGMA TO HIS FOLLOWERS AND LEADER BY CHANCE AFTER THE CORRUPTION SCANDALS OF THE 1970S. NOR IS SOUTH AFRICA AN ISLAND. POLITICALLY ISOLATED, IT IS ALSO LINKED TO THAT OUTSIDE WORLD WHICH IT NEEDS, FEARS AND TRIES TO IMITATE. FOR THERE IS SOMETHING OF A COLONIAL CULTURE STILL ABOUT WHITE SOUTH AFRICA: IT IS IMITATIVE AND BEHIND THE TIMES, ITS POPULAR MUSIC THE MUSIC OF THE 1960S, ITS HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS IN THE UNLOVELY CITY OF JOHANNESBURG THOSE OF YESTERDAY, AND ITS POLITICS THE POLITICS OF YESTERYEAR. THE POLICIES OF THE NATIONAL PARTY ARE NOT MUCH REMOVED FROM THOSE OF ALABAMA OR MISSISSIPPI A GENERATION AGO, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT OF KEEPING WITH THE TIMES, THEY APPEAR PERVERSE.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958