External great-power pressure pushed South Africa toward negotiated compromise

Evidence

Together, the two effects encouraged the United States to press both sides for a compromise solution far short of revolution. To assert its presence, the ANC declared 1991 its “year of mass action,” calling its supporters to peaceful, disciplined strikes, boycotts, marches, and rallies (Jung and Shapiro 1995, 286). Step by step, the ANC presence undermined the NP plan of establishing some sort of power sharing. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 586

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Superpower involvement paradoxically contained the regional conflict’s danger — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1597; External great-power pressure forced Bahrain’s opposition to self-limit its demands — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 251; The Soviet Union’s collapse weakened both sides of South Africa’s standoff and forced negotiation — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 586

Broader Connections

• Superpower involvement paradoxically contained the regional conflict’s danger #corroborates (0.82) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1597