The Suffering Grass: Superpowers and Regional Conflict in Southern Africa and the Caribbean. (book reviews)

Ever since the late 1950s, students of regional international politics have attempted to stimulate interest in comparative regional system analysis. The basic idea has always been that there is more to international politics than the global contests of the strongest states. A number of geographical niches have developed subsystemic patterns of interaction, with varying degrees of autonomy, into which major powers may intervene but not always predictably.

Global rules of engagement and hierarchy do not always work the same way in the different regions of the world. As a consequence, ...

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