Africa
Reclaiming SADC for people’s development
By Thomas Deve*, 9 September 2012 SADC heads of states who met in Maputo a few weeks ago were told in no uncertain terms by civil society and social movements that the citizens of region are not happy with the increased incidence of undemocratic governance and impunity of the corporate ...
The 2012 SADC People's Summit Report
THE 2012 SADC PEOPLE’S SUMMIT REPORT “Reclaiming SADC for People’s Development – A People’s SADC Myth or Reality?” Table of Contents About SAPSN Contextualization 1. Introduction 2. Opening and Introductory Remarks 3. Key Note Addresses: A People’s SADC Myth or Reality 3...
A People’s SADC Myth or Reality
By Thomas Deve Summary of Key note speech during SADC People's Summit in Mozambique (August 2012) In his Key note address, Thomas Deve delivered a brief but powerful keynote address to the audience gathered at the summit. He outlined the 2012 theme in the context of growing frustration from th...
A Case for Closer Integration between South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland?
By Glenn Ashton South Africa looms large in the affairs of the Kingdoms of Swaziland and Lesotho, the local geo-political giant. Economically, each receives disproportionate amounts of their annual GDP directly from South Africa. Each is profoundly reliant on their powerful neighbour for the supp...
Video Documentary "Global Crises, Regional Solutions"
Can regional integration offer a way out of the current economic, climate, food and energy crises? In this video documentary, activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe* argue that regional integration is the only viable response to these crises. CHAPTERS 1 - Why are the regions ...
Book: Civil Society and International Governance
The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello, Julie Gilson, Debora Spini Published 29th October 2010 by Routledge – 224 pages Series: Routledge/GARNET series Civil Society and International Governance critically analyses the ...
Reclaim Control over EPA Talks
By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK, Mar 29, 2010 (IPS) - Southern African governments must regain control over the negotiations on the trade deals known as economic partnership agreements (EPAs). Issues earmarked as deal-breakers should be resolved before talks to a full EPA are continued. These i...
Videos - Perspectives on Regional Integration from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe
This series of interviews presents the perspectives of activists from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe on the issue of regional integration. All interviews were filmed by TNI at the International Conference of Governments and Social Movements - “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face ...
VIDEO: Perspectives on Regional Integration - Lodwick Chizarura
Lodwick Chizarura (SEATINI, Zimbabwe) discusses regional integration, its plausibility as a mechanism to change the current economic development model, and obstacles that stand in the way. He contends that the economic development model in Africa is a colonial one that needs to be removed and replac...
VIDEO: Perspectives on Regional Integration - Pezo Mateo-Phiri
Pexo Mateo-Phiri (Southern Africa People's Solidarity Network SAPSN, Zambia) discusses regional integration, particularly focusing on the SADC (Southern African Development Community) process. Pezo goes on to explain how SAPSN is attempting to counter this approach by advocating a different type of ...
VIDEO: Perspectives on Regional Integration - Tetteh Hormeku
Tetteh Hormeku (Third World Network/African Trade Network, Ghana) discusses regional integration, its importance in addressing the current crises and some key issues that should be considered when forging a new type of integration. He argues that African economies are currently fragmented and incorr...
VIDEO: Perspectives on Regional Integration - Demba Moussa Dembele
Demba Moussa Dembele (African Forum on Alternatives, Senegal) gives his perspective on regional integration in the context of the current crises and discusses some key issues involved in creating a new form of regional integration. He argues that regional integration is the only viable response to t...
Summary report of the World Social Forum (01/09) and ASEAN Peoples' Forum (02/09); "Global Crises-Regional Responses: the inter-linkages between climate change, trade and regional integration"
This report compiles the exchanges of analysis on the role of Europe in a globalized world over three interconnected issues: climate change, trade and regional integration held during two debates which took place in Belem during the World Social Forum (January 2009), and in Bangkok, Thailand during ...
The Implications of ‘The Global Crisis’ in relation to the challenges and the strategic Regional Policy Alternatives facing the Southern African Development Community
By Dot Keet * Parts from this paper were presented at International Conference of governments and social movements “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face the crises” (21 and 22 July 2009, Asunción del Paraguay) [1] As is well-known to social movement analysts and activists in So...
Regional Responses to the Crises: View from Africa
By Demba Moussa Dembele [1] * Presentation given at International Conference of governments and social movements “Regional Integration: an opportunity to face the crises” (21 and 22 July 2009, Asunción del Paraguay) THE IMPACT OF THE CRISES ON AFRICA The financial crisis and its tr...
Africa: Deeper regional integration needed in response to crisis
Published in SUNS #6728 dated 26 June 2009 Geneva, 25 Jun (Kanaga Raja) -- The global economic crisis, which has reached the African continent, requires the re-examination of existing approaches to international development, with one important response being deeper regional integration to address...
UNCTAD report Economic Development in Africa 2009
Report says Africa should deepen regional integration to build stronger and more resilient economies Regional infrastructure, policy harmonization and increasing cross-border investment and labour mobility will help Africa benefit fully from economic opportunities provided by regional integra...
African Trade Agenda
Third World Network-Africa, Volume 3 Number 1 May 2009 >Download PDF Content - FALL-OUT FROM EPA NEGOTIATIONS: Africa on the brink of disintergration // pages 1-4 - UNCTAD PUBLIC SYPOSIUM: Regionalism – the south’s exit strategy from global crises // pages 4-6 - EPA Negiations-Regiona...
Southern Africa: whither regional integration?
Aileen Kwa interviews Dot Keet Inter Press Service As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based devel...
The Role of the State and States in the Processes Towards Development Cooperation and Regional Integration in Southern Africa
by Dot Keet 1. Introduction Amongst many other analyses and debates, the more extensive awareness of the active role of the state and of states in the purportedly highly successful 'market economies' in East Asia and South East Asia is bringing discussion of the role of state back into...
Alternative Regional Strategies in Africa
Dot Keet African social movements have long been accustomed to hearing constant references by their governments to the importance of African unity and cooperation. The African Union is the most recent practical expression of this. However, in contrast to the earlier regional development modalitie...
ANSA: The Search for Sustainable Human Development in Southern Africa
“ The tragedy is that, in Southern Africa, there is no reason for a single person to go without food, water or any basic necessity, and yet millions do. The region has enormous natural resources and the populations are relatively small compared, for example, to countries in Asia or Latin America. ...
Civil Society and African Regional Integration
The inaugural meeting of the Nordic Africa Institute’s NGO and Civil Society research network took place at Aalborg University, Denmark on November 6-7, 2006. Hosted by the University’s Centre for Comparative Integration Studies & Research Centre for Development and International Relations, the ...
Overview of regional cooperation and development in Southern Africa
Background Paper Prepared by the Alternative Information and Development Center (AIDC) for the May 2006 'Strategic Conceptualisation and Planning' Seminar of the Peoples Dialogue project on Alternative Regional Strategies. >Dowwnload PDF
CSOs Launch Global Call for Action to Stop EPAs
Thirty civil society organisations involved in the Stop EPA campaign met in Harare from 27-30 March to launch a global call for action to Stop the so-called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Organised under the umbrella of the Africa Trade Network (ATN), the objective of the meeting was to out...
Contemporary International Economic Relations – Enhancing Human Security through a Civil Society Response
Sheila Bunwaree, University of Mauritius Contemporary international economic relations are marked by a long history of unequal power relations and exchange. This very uneven relationship between the colonizers and the colonized persists today causing Africa to continue finding itself in very abys...
South Africa and Africa: Regional Integration and Security Co-operation
Grey Mills As part of the process of re-inclusion into the international fold that has followed 2 February 1990, South Africa is expected to play a role in the activities of a rejuvenated Organisation of African Unity (OAU), and in increased regional economic co-operation and closer integration t...
Are There Alternatives To Neo-Liberalism? Yes There Are
In a famous statement made by the former Prime Minister of Britain, Margaret Thatcher, There Is No Alternative (TINA) to the neo-liberal model of economic growth and development. This statement was made in a conference in West Africa, thus pointedly telling Africa to join in the process of globalisa...
African Transatlantic Resistance and Movements
Madeleine Andebeng L. Alingué* SEATTLE, PORTO ALEGRE, DURBAN and more recently Bombay are massive and conclusive expressions of the fight for a better future. From Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, to Europe and the United States, the planning and ordering of the global econo...
Linking Alternative Regionalisms for Equitable & Sustainable Development
Walden Bello and Dot Keet Download PDF Abstract As the crisis of globalisation deepens , there is an urgent need for the articulation of alternatives. This includes add ressing the question of developing alternatives from the perspectives of social movements in Africa, Asia and Latin-America a...
Multi-Track Strategies of the Major Powers On, and Against, Regional Integration(s)
Dot Keet Alternative Information and Development Centre Regional Briefings 4 The externally oriented motivations for creating stronger regional economic groupings between developing countries, and seeking forms of political cooperation between their governments and between their ...
Monitoring regional integration in Southern Africa
Dirk Hansohm Regional integration (RI) is seen by many policy makers all over the world as an important policy instrument. This is in particular true for developing countries. The interest in RI has risen lately. Notably the European Union (EU) has elevated RI to a key pillar of its development coo...
Counteractive Forces against Regional Development Strategies in Africa
Dot Keet The state-led model was also adopted in most African countries, whether they identified themselves as 'market economies' (such as Botswana or Kenya), as social welfare-ist 'humanist' mixed economies (Zambia), as 'African socialist' or 'Arab socialist' economies (Tanzania or Algeria), or ...
The Strategic Aims of Regional Cooperation and Integration in Africa
Dot Keet Alternative Information and Development Centre AIDC Regional Briefing 1/2004 African social movement analysts and activists hear constant references by their governments to the importance of African unity and cooperation. The African Union is the most recent practical expression o...
Regional Programs in the South and New Peoples' Initiatives in the Context of Contrary Internal Governmental Trends and External Interventions
by Dot Keet, TNI Alternative Regionalisms Project It has long been recognised by many governments and civil society organisations in the countries of the South that the regrouping of their countries into larger economic units is an important basis for effective and sustainable development. This h...
From SADCC to SADC and beyond: The politics of economic integration
Maxi Schoeman Classical economic integration theory would have it that regional integration is an economic process occurring largely as a result of greater interaction between neighbouring states, functioning almost like some kind of invisible hand. This theory is based on the historical example ...
Options for Regional Integration in Southern Africa
D Evans The Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC) and its successor, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) had a strong anti-apartheid political orientation. Initially, economic co-operation was based on a sectoral approach. The Windhoek Treaty of 1992 changed ...
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