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Habitats for innovation and their inhabitants -- The once and future company -- On the edge of the possible -- Meeting vital needs -- Fostering the courage to innovate -- Building a framework for innovation -- Technology, innovation, and strategy -- Journeys in strategic space -- The care and feeding of strategy-the technology food chain -- Forging a strategic journey: the decision trichotomy -- Collaborate to compete -- The art of acquisition -- "Make": relying on internal resources -- Accepting daring and unusual challenges -- Strategies for the unexpected and the unusual -- When it hits the fan: perilous journeys-innovation in times of crisis -- Innovating beyond the walls -- Extraordinary innovation, extraordinary collaboration

Since the initial meeting of the U.S.-Soviet Symposium on Contemporary Problems of sub-Saharan Africa in 1982 considerable change has occurred in the relationship between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in regard to African issues, as well as in the relationship between the American and Soviet specialists on Africa. Apprehension was the quality that infused the initial meeting in November of 1982 of the first-ever formal exchange of views between Soviet and American Africanists. Both American and Soviet participants wondered whether the discussions would be substantive, scholarly, and constructive. Conversly, would their opposite numbers simply repeat official government positions, make debating points rather than engaging in discussion, and adopt an ideological and baiting posture? In other words, "would the Symposium simply turn into another forum for the exchange of "cold war rhetoric?

Linkage between its domestic affairs and its international relations. Efforts to maintain White rule over the past 25 years by uncoupling domestic affairs from foreign economic relations.

A key feature of South Africa's political dynamics is the linkage between its domestic affairs and its international relations. South Africa's access to international markets for vital capital and technology is threatened by the nature of its domestic socioeconomic and political systems. In its efforts to maintain white rule, the South African government has, over the past 25 years, sought to deal with this threat by uncoupling its domestic affairs from its foreign economic relations. The methods utilized to attempt this have varied. Pretoria has altered its domestic sociopolitical arrangements in ways that it believed, and hoped, would make South Africa more acceptable internationally. It has fashioned its foreign policy so as to attempt to reduce the international consequences of its stigma of racial rule. It has sought to reduce its vital dependence on the international economic system through policies that would increase the autonomy of the South African economy. And, most recently, it has sought to diversify its foreign sources of capital and its trading partners toward countries whose governments and firms are likely to be less sensitive about South Africa's system of white supremacy.

Analyse der Verwobenheit der internationalen Beziehungen Südafrikas mit seiner inneren Situation. Skizzierung der Stationen der politischen Entwicklung seit der Erhebung der Bevölkerung von Sharpeville (1960). Bedeutung von Zugeständnissen an die schwarze Bevölkerungsmehrheit, wie z.B. die Aufhebung der "Kleinen Apartheid", als Strategien zur Beruhigung der Weltöffentlichkeit. Versuch der Befestigung südafrikanischer regionaler Vorherrschaft durch die Abkommen mit Angola und Mosambik im Jahre 1984. Skeptische Einschätzung der Wirksamkeit von Wirtschaftssanktionen. (DÜI-Fwr)

Recent diplomatic realignments in the area.

Analyse der lang-, mittel- und kurzfristigen strategischen Ziele Pretorias und der politischen Aktionen zu ihrer Realisierung. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, daß Pretoria zur Destabilisierung der Region aktiv beiträgt, solange nicht gewährleistet ist, daß die letztlich angestrebte regionale Stabilität den Interessen der weißen Herrschaft in der RSA dient

In almost any analysis of contemporary African society, ethnic affiliation is an important independent variable. A wide range of behaviour, particularly of a political nature, has been explained and understood in terms of presumed intra-tribal solidarity and inter-tribal tension. Most of the evidence of ethnically-oriented behaviour is drawn from the actions and public rhetoric of political and journalistic élites or, if concerned with the phenomenon on a mass level, is indirect – e.g. inferences from patterns of voting behaviour. There is relatively little in the way of'hard' data on the ethnically oriented perceptions of Africans, and it is important that we collect direct evidence of their existence, so as to confirm our inferences based on indirect and impressionistic methodological techniques. One method of obtaining such evidence is by survey research.