Robert Price
Professor and
Associate Vice Chancellor for Research of Political Science
Phone: (510) 643-6793
Office Location: 119 California
Office Hours:
Spring 2008 Course: Not teaching in Political Science this term
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Professor Price's research and teaching fields include
comparative politics and African affairs, with a special emphasis
on South Africa. He is author of Society and Bureaucracy in Contemporary
Ghana (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), U.S.
Foreign Policy toward Sub-Saharan Africa: National Interest and Global
Strategy (Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, 1979),
The Apartheid Regime: Political Power and Racial Domination
(co-editor, Berkeley: Institute of International Studies Publications,
1980), and The Apartheid State in Crisis (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1991), as well as a variety of journal articles
and book chapters dealing with the new African state, U.S. foreign
policy towards Africa, and political change in South Africa. . Course Web Site: South Africa: The Politics of Transformation |
The Apartheid State in Crisis (1991)
The Apartheid State in Crisis explores the political dynamics that produced South Africa's negotiated transition away from minority racial rule. Focusing on the movement for black liberation, the policies of the apartheid state, and the international environment, the process whereby the foundations of white rule were fundamentally eroded is revealed. The dynamic interactions of government reform, black insurrection, and international sanctions are shown to have profoundly altered South Africa's political process during the decade of the 1980s, weakening the white-controlled state and leaving the government with only one viable option: to negotiate the future of the state with advocates of majority rule. (Oxford University Press, 1991)
". . . .Price's book is a stunning accomplishment. It towers over recent analyses
of the South African situation and puts to shame recent historical sociological treatments
of revolution..."
American Political Science Review
". . . .without peer as the best researched and most authoritative history of this period of reform now on our bookshelves."