- Title
- Book Review: Community of insecurity
- Creator
- Magadla, Siphokazi
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2014
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298606
- Identifier
- vital:57720
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2014.936174"
- Description
- Laurie Nathan's Community of Insecurity is a thoughtful engagement with the ‘establishment, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)’ (1). He argues that it is of ‘great significance and irony that many of the major disputes among member states have been around the orientation and strategies of peacemaking and regional security’. Nathan's empirical claims about the SADC security architecture are drawn from his ‘insider perspective’ due to his involvement in official efforts to design a common security regime in Southern Africa, which include his service as regional security advisor to the SADC Secretariat from 1992 to 1996, to the Foreign Minister of Mozambique Pascoal Mocumbi from 1994 to 1995, to the South African Minister of Defence Joe Modise and the Deputy Minister of Defence Ronnie Kasrils between 1994 and 1999 and to the Foreign Minister of Swaziland Albert Shabangu when he oversaw the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation in 1999–2000 (12–13). This ‘insider’ view has allowed him to make a compelling challenge to current theoretical debates about SADC's status as a security community, that is, a community with an affinity amongst member states that is ‘so strong that they enjoy dependable expectations of peaceful change and thus regard the prospect of war among them as inconceivable’(129). While other commentators see SADC as either a ‘nascent’, ‘embryonic’ or ‘emerging’ security community, Nathan argues forcefully that ‘this perspective is mistaken’ as SADC continues to be demonstrative of a what he describes as a ‘community of insecurity’.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (3 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary Studies
- Relation
- Magadla, S. 2014. Book Review: Community of insecurity: SADC's struggle for peace and security in Southern Africa. Journal of Contemporary Studies, 32(2), pp. 275 – 277
- Relation
- Journal of Contemporary Studies volume 32 number 2 p. 161 2014 1469-9397
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Online Terms and Conditions Statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/terms-and-conditions)
- Rights
- Open Access
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Magadla, Siphokazi (Associate Prof)
RU Department of Political and International Studies
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