Region-Building in Southern Africa :Progress, Problems and Prospects ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Progress, Problems and Prospects

Publication series :1

Author: Saunders   Chris;Dzinesa   Gwinyayi Albert;Nagar   Dawn  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9781780321806

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781780321790

Subject: D8 Diplomacy, International Relations

Keyword: 外交、国际关系

Language: ENG

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How successful have Southern African states been in dealing with the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What could be done to produce more cohesive and effective region-building in Southern Africa? In this original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an interdisciplinary team of mainly African and African-based specialists, the key political, socio-economic, and security challenges facing Southern Africa today are addressed. These include the various issues confronting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its institutions; such as HIV/AIDS, migration and xenophobia, land-grabbing and climate change; and the role of the main external actors involved with the region, including the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, and China. The book also looks at the Southern African Customs Union and Southern African Development Finance Institutions, including the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Industrial Development Corporation, and issues of gender and peacebuilding. In doing so, the book goes to the heart of analyzing the effectiveness of SADC and other regional organisation, suggesting how region-building in Southern Africa may be compared with similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world.

Chapter

4.1 Classification of regime types in SADC

7.1 SAPP electricity demand and supply, 2009

8.1 SACU economic indicators, 2007/08

8.2 SACU common revenue pool, 2005/06–2009/10

10.1 Contributions to reduction in child malnutrition, 1970–95

13.1 Matrix of possible climate change/security interactions over time

13.2 Prioritization matrix for climate change constraints at SADC andmember state levels

7.1 SAPP electricity contribution, 2009

8.1 Regional institutions in southern Africa

10.1 SADC total cereal and maize production, 1990–2008

Map

8.1 SACU member states

8.1 SACU institutions

13.1 Major likely GEC impacts in Africa

Regional integration: the case of southern Africa

SADC’s developmental framework

Politics, security and governance

International links and key trade partners

Structure of the book

Problems and challenges

Notes

PART ONE Historical legacy

1  |  The SADCC and its approaches to African regionalism

Background to SADCC and FLS

Formation of SADCC

SADCC’s achievements and shortcomings

Beyond SADCC: legacies for SADC

Conclusion

Notes

2  |  The SADC: between cooperation and development – an insider perspective

Earlier attempts at regional economic integration

Political cooperation and development of a shared value system

Developmental integration

Functional cooperation

Trade and investment

Management of regional integration

Conclusion

Notes

PART TWO Governance and military security

3  |  The Southern African Development Community’s decision-making architecture

Historical background

Policy agenda

Political, peace and security priorities

Socio-economic development and integration priorities

SADC’s decision-making architecture

Conclusion

Notes

4  |  Elections and conflict management

Context

Table 4.1 Classification of regime types in SADC

The problematic nexus between elections and conflict: selected cases

Evolution of a normative framework for credible, peaceful and transparent elections in southern Africa

The role of civil society

Conclusion

Notes

5  |  Peacekeeping: from the United Nations to the SADC Stand-by Force

UN peacekeeping missions

Towards a regional military force

The AU and the continental drive for an African army

The SADCSF: issues of capacity, operability and usage

Conclusion

Notes

6  |  Gender and peace-building

An evolving gender architecture

SADC’s gender instruments

Technical progress and obstacles in SADC

Beyond policies: dealing with ‘gender fatigue’?

The importance of grassroots women’s groups in the implementation of SADC’s Gender Protocol

Conclusion

Notes

PART THREE Economic integration

7  |  Regional economic integration

Spatial Development Initiatives: the Southern African Power Pool

Figure 7.1 SAPP electricity contribution, 2009

Table 7.1 SAPP electricity demand and supply (MW), 2009

SADC free trade area

SADC’s Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan

Conclusion

Notes

8  |  The Southern African Customs Union: promoting stability through dependence?

The geopolitical imperative

Map 8.1 SACU member states

Table 8.1 SACU economic indicators, 2007/08

Figure 8.1 Regional institutions in southern Africa

SACU trade and inequality

Redistribution?

Table 8.2 SACU common revenue pool, 2005/06–2009/10

Democratization and decision-making

Box 8.1 SACU institutions

Conclusion

Notes

9  |  South Africa’s development finance institutions

South Africa’s post-apartheid Africa policy

The Industrial Development Corporation

The role of the IDC in Mozambique

The Development Bank of Southern Africa

The DBSA in the SADC region

Conclusion

Notes

PART FOUR Human security

10  | Food insecurity

Theoretical constructs: freedom from hunger

Regional food security and root causes

Figure 10.1 SADC total cereal and maize production (thousand tonnes), 1990–2008

Underlying causes of regional food insecurity

Table 10.1 Contributions to reduction in child malnutrition, 1970–95

SADC’s regional strategic framework for addressing food insecurity

The Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan

FAFS and RISDP: the linkages

The Malawi ‘success story’

Land reform and ‘land grabbing’: threat or opportunity?

Conclusion

Notes

11  |   HIV/AIDS and human security

Human security in southern Africa: a conceptual brief

Impact of HIV/AIDS on human security in southern Africa

SADC policy and institutional framework for HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS, the military and human security

Civil society, HIV/AIDS and human security in southern Africa

Conclusion

Notes

12  |  Migration and xenophobia

Migration and the making of difference in southern Africa

Migration, xenophobia and ethnicity

Free market policies and xenophobia

Conclusion

Notes

13  |  Climate change challenges

The growing realities of climate change

Box 13.1 Major likely GEC impacts in Africa

GEC, human security and human rights

Table 13.1 Matrix of possible climate change/security interactions over time

Southern African dimensions

Southern African regional institutions’ engagement with GEC

SADC

Table 13.2 Prioritization matrix for climate change constraints at SADC and member state levels

COMESA

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

PART FIVE External actors

14  | The European Union

The EU’s post-independence agreements with Africa

The EU’s development policies: a hindrance to real development

The geopolitical challenges of the late twentieth century

South Africa and the European Commission

Lack of coherence in SADC

Conclusion

Notes

15  |  The United States

The pursuit of US Cold War interests in southern Africa

Post-Cold War US interests in southern Africa

The Clinton years

The George W. Bush years

Obama and southern Africa

Reviving the SADC–US Forum and promoting regional cooperation

Conclusion

Notes

16  |  China

Historical dimensions

Post-apartheid political relations

Assessing China’s economic role

Conclusion

Notes

Conclusion

Notes

About the contributors

Bibliography

Index

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