This is an article from last year, but it still relevant. It talks about the regime change in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and how it was forced to change because it didn't have the backing of South Africa.
This shows that some leaders of regimes need more than the support of their second and third in charge. Especially in cases like this where they depend on other states for things like electricity.
This can be related to Boix's article, particularly about the costs of repression and the classes. Would South Africa be included as a class? And would the costs of repression be higher if another country were strongly involved, much like the way South Africa was?
South Africa would enter Boix's model as a change in the cost of repression: with South Africa the cost was low, without it high.
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