The EU's foreign-policy chief, Cathy Ashton, is being showered with ideas: Germany says EU support (including lifting barriers to agricultural trade) should be linked to democratic reforms.
Mr Byman argues that America must do better on five fronts: the military, the war of ideas, intelligence, homeland defence and, in a nuanced way, democratic reform.
His reform measures led Vorster's adjustments of race policy to de Klerk's ending of apartheid, forming an integrated part of the process of the democratic reform and improving the conditions for the black people.