- Title
- What's been built in twenty years?: SADC and Southern Africa's political and regional security culture
- Creator
- Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161498
- Identifier
- vital:40633
- Description
- The sense of region in Southern Africa is based on nationalism and its struggles for national liberation. Unusually, the norms of smaller states initially shaped the region's scope and culture of interaction. First and foremost, cooperation happened in the area of security, an initial focus being to uphold the independence and sovereignty of the state in the face of challenges from apartheid South Africa. As such, rather atypically, intergovernmental security cooperation preceded broad based economic cooperation. This has meant that security and development have remained largely de-linked and this has helped discourage implementing a society or human rights centred approach to security. Cooperation has been made more difficult by disparate political systems with divergent values, cultures, agendas and sensibilities. As such, regionalism reinforces nationalism to the exclusion of development or wider notions of political and social security. The region amounts to a security regime with only a patchy record in advancing security. Therefore, in the face of developmental challenges and unless a degree of strategic coherence along political and policy fronts is reached, after 20 years of SADC the endeavour to institutionalise security in conventional state-centred ways amounts to a scenario of diminishing returns.
- Format
- 29 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Strategic Review for Southern Africa
- Relation
- Bischoff, P.H., 2012. What's been built in twenty years? SADC and Southern Africa's political and regional security culture. Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 34(2). Pp. 63-91
- Relation
- Strategic Review for Southern Africa volume 34 number 2 63 91 November 2012 1013-1108
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Bischoff, Paul-Henri (Prof)
SDG 16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
RU Department of Political and International Studies
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