Africa Insight - Volume 18, Issue 2, January 1988

Dr Winrich K?hne, head of the Africa Department at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik in Ebenhausen, West Germany, analyses Soviet policy towards Southern Africa in the context of Gorbachev's policy of ""glasnost"".

Philip Nel, director of the Institute for Soviet Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, discusses the difficulties of analysing Soviet approaches to regional conflicts.

Adele Wildschut, researcher at the Institute for Soviet Studies, University of Stellenbosch, surveys Soviet and East European trade and aid relations with Southern Africa.

Denis Fair, senior research fellow at the Africa Institute, begins a new series on the ports of Africa.