Security And Development In Southern Africa

Author : Nana Poku
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313075445

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Security and Development in Southern Africa by Nana Poku Pdf

With the end of white-dominated South Africa, many observers have argued for a positive transformation of the whole of Southern Africa based upon market integration and increased cooperation among the states of the region. Poku and the contributors to this collection re-examine this optimistic scenerio, and they point to the problems of translating good intentions into actual policies. In reality, the economic imbalance between South Africa and its neighbors poses severe problems for the region. Far from finding a stronger ally in regional reconstruction and development, the countries in the region are finding that for many in South Africa they simply do not matter that much. The analysis points to greater polarization, which may imply greater marginalization of the poorer countries in the region. Moreover, a major widening of the gap between the richer South Africa and some or all of the weaker economies may lead to increased tensions and breakdown of regional relations, even to a situation detrimental to economic development in the region. A provocative analysis by some of the leading politico-economic thinkers of the region, the volume will be of great use to scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with Southern African development.

Author : Lars Buur,Steffen Jensen,Finn Stepputat
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124077681

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The Security-development Nexus by Lars Buur,Steffen Jensen,Finn Stepputat Pdf

The link between security and development has been rediscovered after 9/11 by a broad range of scholars. Focusing on Southern Africa, the Security-Development Nexus shows that the much debated linkage is by no means a recent invention. Rather, the security/development linkage has been an important element of the state policies of colonial as well as post-colonial regimes during the Cold War, and it seems to be prospering in new configurations under the present wave of democratic transitions. Contributors focus on a variety of contexts from South Africa, Mozambique and Namibia, to Zimbabwe and Democratic Congo; they explore the nexus and our understanding of security and development through the prism of peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land contests, squatters, nation and state-building, social movements, DDR programmes and the different trajectories democratization has taken in different parts of the region.

Author : Gavin Cawthra,André Du Pisani,Abillah H. Omari
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781868144532

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Security and Democracy in Southern Africa by Gavin Cawthra,André Du Pisani,Abillah H. Omari Pdf

Southern Africa has embarked on one of the world's most ambitious security co-operation initiatives, seeking to roll out the principles of the United Nations at regional levels. This book examines the triangular relationship between democratisation, the character of democracy and its deficits, and national security practices and perceptions of eleven southern African states. It explores what impact these processes and practices have had on the collaborative security project in the region. Based on national studies conducted by African academics and security practitioners over three years, it includes an examination of the way security is conceived and managed, as well as a comparative analysis of regional security co-operation in the developing world.

Author : Laurie Nathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317163398

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Community of Insecurity by Laurie Nathan Pdf

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: * why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? * why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?, and * why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organization. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author's perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.

Author : MICHAEL. AEBY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9171068538

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SADC - The Southern Arrested Development Community? by MICHAEL. AEBY Pdf

Southern Africa is likely to experience more social unrest in the foreseeable future. That is one of the conclusions in this policy dialogue, which provides an overview of political and economic developments relevant to regional peace and security in Southern Africa. While the region continues to experience isolated armed conflicts, and while developmental backlogs present a major risk to regional stability in the long run, currently the most acute source of instability stems from governance deficits, which in the past decade have prompted crises in many of the member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). SADC's institutional framework for regional peace and security has proven ineffective because SADC leaders have prioritised national sovereignty over the enforcement of democratic principles. The institutions have little capacity as they lack material and political support. The governance deficits and SADC's lacklustre conflict management may in the long run arrest development in Southern Africa.

Author : Ernest Toochi Aniche,Ikenna Mike Alumona,Inocent Moyo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000390544

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Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa by Ernest Toochi Aniche,Ikenna Mike Alumona,Inocent Moyo Pdf

This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa. Africa has a long tradition of regional cooperation, with the oldest trade and monetary integration schemes in the developing world, but its colonial period and partition of have caused lasting damage that still be seen in today’s African economies. Contemporary post-colonial African regionalism, deeply rooted in notions of pan-Africanism, has served as a means of collective self-reliance and economic transformation and development. This book starts with the history and theory behind African regionalism before discussing and comparing regional organisations such as the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC). Finally, the book considers how regional integration and cooperation can help to address security and development challenges. This ambitious and broad-ranging book will be a valuable resource for researchers working on African regionalism, security, African integration and development, and comparative regionalism. Policymakers should also consider it a useful guide to the background and contemporary landscape of African regionalism.

Author : Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Food supply
ISBN : 0796920281

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Food Security and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa by Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini Pdf

Southern Africa experienced acute food shortages during 2002 and 2003.

Author : Sam C. Nolutshungu
Publisher : Sapes Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016379278

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Southern Africa in a Global Context by Sam C. Nolutshungu Pdf

Author : Ken Booth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : IND:30000035586076

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A Security Regime in Southern Africa by Ken Booth Pdf

Author : Hans-Joachim Spanger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429720642

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Bridges To The Future by Hans-Joachim Spanger Pdf

With the ending of white minority rule in South Africa, the democratic elections in Mozambique and the renewed efforts at a negotiated settlement of civil war in Angola, Southern Africa has entered a new era. Much more is required, however, to ensure lasting peace and security. The states on the subcontinent are confronted with the twofold task of

Author : Helen E. Purkitt
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9781621969907

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African Environmental and Human Security in the 21st Century by Helen E. Purkitt Pdf

Author : Jeremiah O. Asaka,Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000610109

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Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa by Jeremiah O. Asaka,Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo Pdf

This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies. Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as diverse as migration, housing, climate change, displacement, food security, aflatoxins, land rights, and peace and conflict resolution. In particular, the book showcases innovative original research from African scholars based on the continent and abroad, and together the contributors provide policy recommendations and set forth a human security research agenda for East Africa, which encompasses Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti. As well as being useful for policy makers and practitioners, this book will interest researchers across African Studies, Security Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Global Governance, International Relations, and Human Geography. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Author : Naison Ngoma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132120788

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Prospects for a Security Community in Southern Africa by Naison Ngoma Pdf

Author : Mwesiga Laurent Baregu,Chris Landsberg
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588261271

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From Cape to Congo by Mwesiga Laurent Baregu,Chris Landsberg Pdf

From the ongoing war in Angola, to sporadic instability in Zimbabwe and Lesotho, to the conflict in Congo, to issues of land reform and the ravages of AIDS, southern Africa faces varied and complex threats to its peace and security. The authors of From Cape to Congo assess the region's major security challenges, as well as the roles of local, regional, and external actors in managing them. Their theoretically informed - but practical - approach encompasses the political, economic, and military arenas.

Author : Gabriël H. Oosthuizen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000116730379

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The Southern African Development Community by Gabriël H. Oosthuizen Pdf

This book, published in July 2006, significantly complements the burgeoning literature on regional integration in Africa. It is the most up-to-date guide to SADC's history and institutions, its policies and programmes, legal underpinnings and position in unfolding continental and global affairs. It offers a frank analysis of SADC's shortcomings, achievements and prospects and reviews its extensive restructuring.