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Community of Insecurity: SADC's Struggle for Peace and Security in Southern Africa (New Regionalisms Series) - Hardcover

Book 46 of 81: New Regionalisms

Nathan, Laurie

 
9781409430445: Community of Insecurity: SADC's Struggle for Peace and Security in Southern Africa (New Regionalisms Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1409430448 ISBN 13: 9781409430445
Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: * why has SADC struggled to establish a viable security regime? * why has it been unable to engage in successful peacemaking?, and * why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organization. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author's perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.

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About the Author

Laurie Nathan is the Director of the Centre for Mediation in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria , South Africa

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1409430448
ISBN 13 
9781409430445
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
200