Regionalisation and civil society: The case of Southern Africa

New Political Economy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-337

  Söderbaum, Fredrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; REGIONALIZATION; SOCIAL THEORY;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 34548392358     PISSN: 13563467     EISSN: 14699923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13563460701485276     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. SADC member countries are: Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
2. See Robert G. Finbow, The Limits of Regionalism: NAFTA's Labour Accord (Ashgate, 2006)
3. Robert O'Brien, 'No Regional Havens: Labour in the Global Political Economy', in Andrew Cooper, Philippe De Lombaerde & Chris Hughes (eds), Regionalisation and the Taming of Globalisation (Routledge, forthcoming)
4. Sandra MacLean, 'New Regionalisms and Conflict: Networks for Plunder and for Peace in Southern and Central Africa', in Andrew J. Grant & (eds , The New Regionalism in Africa (Ashgate, 2003), pp. 110-24
5. and Fahimul Quadir, 'Civil Society and Informal Regionalism in South Asia: The Prospects for Peace and Human Security in the Twenty-First Century', in James J. Hentz & Morten Bøås (eds), New and Critical Security and Regionalism (Ashgate, 2001), pp. 113-26.
6. For an overview of the NRA, the WOA and similar approaches, see Fredrik Söderbaum & Timothy M. Shaw (eds), Theories of New Regionalism. A Palgrave Reader (Palgrave, 2003).
7. For more detailed accounts of the NRA, see Björn Hettne, Andras Inotai & Osvaldo Sunkel (eds), Studies in the New Regionalism, Vols I-V (Macmillan, 1999-2001)
8. and Fredrik Söderbaum, The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
9. For the WOA, see Andrew Gamble & Anthony Payne (eds), Regionalism and World Order (Macmillan, 1996)
10. Shaun Breslin & Glenn D. Hook (eds), Microregionalism and World Order (Palgrave Macmillan 2002)
11. and Glenn D. Hook & Ian Kearns (eds), Subregionalism and World Order (Macmillan, 1999).
12. Björn Hettne, 'Globalization and the New Regionalism: The Second Great Transformation', in Björn Hettne, András Inotai & Osvaldo Sunkel (eds), Globalism and the New Regionalism (Macmillan, 1999), pp. 1-24.
13. James H. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance (Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 225.
14. Marianne H. Marchand, 'North American Regionalisms and Regionalization in the 1990s', in Michael Schulz, Fredrik Söderbaum & Joakim Öjendal (eds), Regionalization in a Globalizing World. A Comparative Perspecitve on Forms: Actors and Processes (Zed Books, 2001), p. 210.
15. Quoted in Finbow, The Limits of Regionalism, p. 268.
16. Jan Aart Scholte, 'Global Civil Society', in Ngaire Woods (ed.), The Political Economy of Globalization (Palgrave, 2000)
17. Jan Aart Scholte, 'Civil Society and Governance', in Morten Ougaard & Richard Higgott (eds), Towards a Global Polity (Routledge, 2002), pp. 189-208.
18. Scholte, 'Civil Society and Governance', p. 146.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid., p. 147
21. Ibid.
22. Jude Howell, 'Making Civil Societies from the Outside - Challenges for Donors', European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 12, No. 1 (2000), pp. 3-22.
23. Söderbaum, The Political Economy of Regionalism.
24. Robert Jackson, Quasi-states: Sovereignty, International Relations and the Third World (Cambridge University Press, 1984).
25. Patrick Chabal & Jean-Pascal Daloz, Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument (James Currey, 1999)
26. also cf. Morten Bøås, 'Liberia - the Hellbound Heart? Regime Breakdown and the Deconstruction of Society', Alternatives, Vol. 22, No. 3 (1997), p. 363.
27. Michael Bratton & Nicolas van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 63.
28. Robert D. Putnam, Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy (Princeton University Press, 1993)
29. Axel Hadenius & Fredrik Uggla, 'Making Civil Society Work, Promoting Democratic Development: What Can States and Donors Do?', World Development, Vol. 24, No. 10 (1996), pp. 1621-39.
30. Daniel C. Bach (ed.), Regionalisation in Africa. Integration and Disintegration (James Currey, 1999).
31. See Söderbaum, The Political Economy of Regionalism, pp. 49-50.
32. Ibid., pp. 120-1.
33. Interview with Coordinator, East and Southern African Economic Justice Network (EJN), South African Council of Churches (SACC), 27 October 2000.
34. Interview with Coordinator, Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), Lesotho, 30 March 2000.
35. Interview with Coordinator, East and Southern African Economic Justice Network (EJN), South African Council of Churches (SACC), 27 October 2000; and Manager: Special Projects, Namibia Non-Governmental Organisation Forum (NANGOF), Namibia, 5 October 2000.
36. Interview with Director, African Forum on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), Zimbabwe, 7 June 1999.
37. Also see Andréas Godsäter, 'Regionalisation of the Social and Economic Justice-sector in Southern Africa', Master thesis, Department of Peace and Development Research, Göteborg University, 2003, http://www.afrikagrupperna.se/cgi-bin/afrika.cgi?d=s&w=1410 (accessed 3 October 2006).
38. Interview with Coordinator, East and Southern African Economic Justice Network (EJN), South African Council of Churches (SACC), 27 October 2000.
39. Chabal & Daloz, Africa Works.
40. Thanks to one of the anonymous reviewers for emphasising this point.
41. Interview with Director, Southern Africa Development & Consulting (CRIAA SA-DC), Namibia, 30 October 2000.
42. Sandra MacLean, 'North-South NGO Partnerships and democratisation: Southern African and Global Linkages', in Larry Swatuk & David Black (eds), Canada and Southern Africa After Apartheid: Foreign Aid and Civil Society (Dalhousie University, Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 1996), p. 29.
43. Quoted in Global Dialogue, October 1997, p. 7.
44. Thanks to Ian Taylor for highlighting these examples.
45. SADC, Treaty of the Southern African Development Community (paragraph 23).
46. Interview with Director, Namibia Chamber of Commerce & Industry (NCCI), Namibia, 28 September 2000.
47. Interview with Coordinator, Namibian Network of Aids Service Organizations (NANASO), national chapter of SANASO, Namibia, 4 October 2000.
48. Interview with Director, African Forum on Debt and Development (AFRODAD), Zimbabwe, 7 June 1999.
49. Southern African Peoples' Solidarity Network (SAPSN), People's Summit Parellel to the Intergovernmental and Heads of State SADC Summit, Maseru, Lesotho 14-18 August 2006: 'Reclaiming SADC for Peoples Solidarity and Development Cooperation', http://www.aidc.org.za/?q=node/ view/653 (accessed 3 October 2006).
50. See Godsäter, 'Regionalisation of the Social and Economic Justice-sector'
51. MacLean, 'New Regionalisms and Conflict'
52. Mittelman, The Globalization Syndrome.
53. Southern African Peoples 'Solidarity Network (SAPSN), 'Reclaiming SADC for Peoples Solidarity'.
54. Quoted in Inter Press Service, Mogyiga Nduru, 16 August 2006.
55. SAPSN, 'On the World Trade Organisation and Neo-liberal Globalisation', Forum of SAPSN, Johannesburg, 22 July 2001, http://aidc.org.za/sapsn/ declaration/wto_joburg.html (accessed 11 November 2005), p. 1; table 2, appendix for members.
56. SAPSN, 'On the World Trade Organisation', pp. 1-2.
57. SAPSN, 'Making Southern African Development Cooperation and Integration a People-centered and Peopledriven Regional Challenge to Globalisation', Declaration to the Governmental Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Windhoek, Namibia, 1-7 August 2000, http://aidc.org.za/sapsn/report/workshop_20000801.html (accessed 2 February 2006), p. 1.
58. SAPSN, 'On the World Trade Organisation', p. 2.