- Title
- Security community building? : an assessment of Southern African regional integration in the post-apartheid era
- Creator
- Lekhooa, Tumo
- ThesisAdvisor
- Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Subject
- South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
- Subject
- Africa, Southern -- Economic integration
- Subject
- National security -- Africa, Southern
- Subject
- Political stability -- Africa, Southern
- Subject
- Southern African Development Community
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:2844
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005958
- Identifier
- South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
- Identifier
- Africa, Southern -- Economic integration
- Identifier
- National security -- Africa, Southern
- Identifier
- Political stability -- Africa, Southern
- Identifier
- Southern African Development Community
- Description
- The thesis traces Southern African security dimensions from the Cold War and the period of apartheid in South Africa to the post-apartheid era. It makes an attempt to investigate the prospects of Southern Africa becoming a security community and the processes and practices underlying these efforts. Using the constructivist theory approach to international relations, the thesis argues that the preoccupation with principles of sovereignty and non-interference, a lack of political will and the absence of common values that could help SADC institute binding rules and decision-making are the main blocks that prevent the region from asserting itself as a security community. All these militate against the idea of mutual accountability among SADC member states and have a negative impact on the institutional and functional capacity of SADC. This also prevents SADC from dealing with the emerging non-military human security threats in the region. In consideration of this, the thesis argues that the idea of security community building in Southern Africa remains not only a regional issue, but also requires the involvement of extra-regional actors.
- Format
- 128 leaves, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Political and International Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Lekhooa, Tumo
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