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| Title: | Southern Africa in Transition: Prospects and Problems Facing Regional Integration |
| Author: | Gibb, Richard A. |
| Year: | 1998 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 287-306 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
| Subjects: | regional economic relations common markets Politics and Government Inter-African Relations |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161406 |
| Abstract: | Southern Africa's most important regional arrangements - SACU, SADC, Comesa - are all in a state of transformation as they endeavour to respond to the postapartheid situation. Amongst the countries of southern Africa there is widespread recognition of the benefits to be derived from regional collaboration. However, a central contention of this article is that translating this desire for collaboration into an effectively functional institutional reality covering the majority of the region's States is going to be a slow and potentially acrimonious process that can only be understood fully through an examination of regionally specific circumstances and global trends. The ending of apartheid has promoted a period of instability in the established trading arrangements. A policy vacuum appears to be emerging over the issue of regionalism, in part as a result of the unwillingness of South Africa, and the inability of the other States of southern Africa, to assume responsibility for the region's economy. Since the principal obstacles facing economic integration in southern Africa arise from the inequalities in levels of development amongst the States of the region, any new initiatives will have to address the question of how these can be lessened. Notes, ref. |
