Synopsis of Community of Insecurity : SADC’s struggle for peace and security in southern Africa

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dc.contributor.author Nathan, Laurie
dc.date.accessioned 2014-01-28T05:53:26Z
dc.date.available 2014-09-30T00:20:06Z
dc.date.issued 2013-09
dc.description.abstract This article presents a synopsis of Community of Insecurity : SADC’s struggle for peace and security in southern Africa, published by Ashgate in 2012. It focuses on SADC’s efforts to establish a common security regime; conflict and peacemaking in southern Africa between 1992 and 2011; and the prospects of SADC becoming a security community. It summarises the reasons for SADC’s difficulties in the sphere of regional security and politics, namely the weakness of member states, their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to communal mechanisms, and the absence of common values among them. The main conclusion is that these problems lie primarily at the national level and cannot be solved at the regional level. SADC is a forum of states and it cannot do anything that these states will not permit it to do. en_US
dc.description.librarian hb2014 en_US
dc.description.librarian gv2014
dc.description.uri http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rasr20 en_US
dc.identifier.citation Laurie Nathan (2013) Synopsis of Community of Insecurity : SADC's struggle for peace and security in southern Africa , African Security Review, 22:3, 181-189, DOI:10.1080/10246029.2013.822667 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1024-6029 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2154-0128 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1080/10246029.2013.822667
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/33119
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis en_US
dc.rights © 2013 Institute for Security Studies © Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in African Security Review, vol.22, no. 3, pp. 181-189,2013. doi : 10.1080/10246029.2013.822667 African Security Review is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rasr20 en_US
dc.subject SADC en_US
dc.subject Regional security en_US
dc.subject Peace making en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Southern African Development Community en
dc.title Synopsis of Community of Insecurity : SADC’s struggle for peace and security in southern Africa en_US
dc.type Postprint Article en_US


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