A leading analyst of South Africa's national and foreign policy chronicles the complexities of the transition from apartheid to democracy and South Africa's current approach to diplomacy in Africa and further afield.

Dr Christopher Landberg is the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg. He is co-founder of the Centre fro Africa's International Relations at the University of Witwatersrand. In 1999 - 2000 he was Hamburg Fellow at Standford University. He was educated at RAU, Rhodes and Oxford and holds a D.Phil International Relations (Oxon).