PIETER FOURIE lectures in the Department of Politics and Governance at the Rand Afrikaans
University in Johannesburg. BRENDAN VICKERS lectures in the Department of Political
Sciences at the University of Pretoria. This article is a revised version of a paper
presented at the 4th Pan-European IR Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 8-10 September 2001.
Mr Fourie's e-mail address is pf@lw.rau.ac.za;
Mr Vickers' e-mail address is bvickers@libarts.up.ac.za