I,Ianibia, is South Africals readiness to accept its international- isolation. 95J F?" over two decades, South Africe. has sought to ally itself with the liest ' particularly by stressing its geo-strategic irnportance on account of its locati-on astride the sea lanes and its nineral t""o.li""" " 95/ Although not having completely abandoned their aspirations fol. such ties, South lrricats leaders now appear to be tr-rrning in part to tj.es with other so-caIled "garrison statesrt sirailarly suffering from varying alegrees of international- isolation. 97/ )2/ Jaster, Cg ,,p' 3-l+ t and-rsouth Affica has Forces Operating Inside Rhod.esia", Vlashington Post' l- Ilecember 19(9' g3/ Ibid" " pp, 35_36; "Botha Pushes Easing of Apartheid but Doubts Renain anong ffackT" . titew yort times , ?2 I[ay Ig79 t and "Mugabe Trir:mpb Stirs Tal-k of S . African Reforn", U""ht"gt." Po"t, 10 tlarch 1980. 9V 'South Africa Ignoring Rhodesian lesson", Ilasll+.ngton l9st",20 May 1980' See aLso-Tdelman and Knight, l'Can South Africa Go Nuclear? ", pp. 644-645; Robert L Rotberc" 'Hov Deep a Chance? , f'orei4.n Poligv, Number 38 (Spring 1!80); and Fandalf Robinson, i'Investnents in Tokenisn"" Foreign Policy' I\o' JU (Spring 1!80 ) . Qlf Jasl:er, South Africq.rs Narrowing Sec .pp',\z-43; Guttexidge ' "South Africa's Defence Po"i"r"", p. :t; -fr$uth Af"*"'" Tilt Away from the I'Iestr', Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jul-y 1979. 29/ J"E. spence, isouth.Africa and the Defence of the llest", Survival n vol. XIII, No" 3 (March 19?1). 97/ See "Motives and Disincentives to Nuclear Proliferation: The rGarrison Stat;t ", by pierre Le1louche, Groupe d'ntude et de Recherche d"e Politique Interna,t ionales "Al35/Loz llna_L].Sn Annex 3, I""1""" ""rI""- .n 62. The generaL points made at the beginning of the last chapter about the necessity to discuss thls problem in the context of apaatheid equally apply vith