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Title: | Directing Our Future? Regionalism, Developmental Regionalism and SADC (Southern African Development Community) in Southern Africa |
Authors: | Blaauw, Lesley Bischoff, Paul-Henri |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Africa Insight |
Volume: | 30 |
Issue: | 3-4 |
Pages: | 51-57 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | common markets Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government Inter-African Relations |
Abstract: | In southern Africa, the defeat of apartheid created a need for a regional organization. With the establishment of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 1992, an attempt was made to fill this organizational void. The intention of the SADC was to serve as a catalyst for wide-ranging changes in development. This paper addresses the following questions: What development does or should SADC promote? And can SADC lend scope and provide guidance to the promotion of a wider regionalism which embraces non-State actors? The paper looks at the general meaning of regionalism, contextualizing it for the subregion and defining one of its variants, developmental regionalism. Developmental regionalism can be perceived as a strategy in which States pro-actively engage in economic intervention, something which was precluded in the strategies employed by States in past regional endeavours. The paper shows that developmental regionalism has an important role to play in southern Africa, but that it is impeded by the structural adjustment programmes operating in most member States. Ref. |