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Title:The Role of Regional Integration, Security and Development in Southern Africa
Authors:Mohammed, Nadir A.L.
Treeck, DominikISNI
Year:1996
Periodical:African Development Review
Volume:8
Issue:1
Period:June
Pages:1-43
Language:English
Geographic term:Southern Africa
Subjects:regional security
regional economic relations
Inter-African Relations
Economics and Trade
Politics and Government
Development and Technology
External link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8268.1996.tb00079.x/pdf
Abstract:This paper investigates the causal interlinkages between regional integration, security and development in southern Africa. It surveys the economic trends and development potentials of the region, the security concerns, and the development of institutions for regional integration, notably the Southern African Multilateral Monetary Area (MMA), the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa). The paper then summarizes the obstacles to integration in the southern African region, and the potentials, and notes that previous security and military cooperation has achieved good results in the last two decades, with the end of apartheid and the reduction in military spending in most countries of the region resulting in a huge peace dividend. To consolidate the gains of the peace dividend, the paper recommends that the SADC should add security as an additional sector and establish a military organ under a regional military command, that the operations of regional organizations be strengthened through institutional reforms and/or harmonization, and that clear priorities be set for economic integration. App., bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French.
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