South Africa within SADC : hegemon or partner?

Molefi, Tebogo Shadrack

Title: South Africa within SADC : hegemon or partner?
Creator: Molefi, Tebogo Shadrack
Subject: Southern African Development Community
Subject: Political stability -- Africa, Southern
Subject: South Africa -- Economic conditions
Subject: South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Africa
Subject: South Africa -- Economic policy
Date Issued: 2003
Date: 2003
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:2866
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007674
Identifier: Southern African Development Community
Identifier: Political stability -- Africa, Southern
Identifier: South Africa -- Economic conditions
Identifier: South Africa -- Foreign relations -- Africa
Identifier: South Africa -- Economic policy
Description: This study attempts to make a contribution to the debate on the role of South Africa within Southern African Development Community. An attempt is made to analyse this role within the context of regional integration debate. This role has been conceptualised within the dichotomies of hegemon versus partner. The study argues that South Africa is a hegemon in the region of SADC, and that given its overarching economic dominance and it has the potential of establishing its hegemony in the region. It maintains that there are several factors, which could facilitate South Africa's hegemonic dominance such as in military, technology and manufacturing sector. It concludes by arguing that given the changing geopolitical factors both within the region and the globe impedes South Africa from firmly expressing this hegemonic dominance. Furthermore, South Africa's pioneering role in the struggle to change the status quo globally in favour of the Southern states is another crucial factor, which imposes limitations on its hegemonic intentions regionally.
Format: 112 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Political Studies
Language: English
Rights: Molefi, Tebogo Shadrack

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