The book describes and evaluates the state of the discipline of political science and international relations in South Africa. Fourteen South African political scientists present their own appraisals of various aspects of the study of Politics in South Africa, in the 20th year of the country's post-Apartheid existence.

This book was published as a special issue of Politikon.

Dedication 1. A Word from a Founder, to Those Who Follow 2. The Study of Politics in South Africa: A Prolegomenon 3. The Subject as Object: 40 Years of Scholarship 4. Celebrating 40 Years: The State of Political Science in South Africa in 2014 5. Working in a South African Politics Department During the 1980s: Recollections 6. Teaching Politics in Exile: A Memoir from Swaziland 1973-1985 7. The Idea of Africa in South African Political Science 8. Systematic, Quantitative Political Science in South Africa: The Road Less Travelled 9. The State of Comparative Politics in South Africa 10. The Promise of Political Theory in South Africa 11. International Relations in South Africa: A Case of 'Add Africa and Stir'? 12. Twenty Years on, It's All Academic: Progressive South African Scholars and Moral Foreign Policy After Apartheid 13. The State of Public Administration as an Academic Field in South Africa 14. The Personal Is the International: For Black Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough

Peter Vale is Professor of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, and Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics Emeritus, Rhodes University.

Pieter Fourie is the Editor of Politikon, the South African Journal of Political Studies, and Associate Professor of Political Science, Stellenbosch University.