Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region

Korwa Gombe Adar; Dorothy Mpabanga; Kebapetse Lotshwao; Thekiso Molokwane; Norbert Musekiwa

doi:10.5771/9781666930214

Summary

Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region: Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization, edited by Korwa Gombe Adar, Dorothy Mpabanga, Kebapetse Lotshwao, Thekiso Molokwane, and Norbert Musekiwa, engages in the debate associated with "the people of Southern Africa" (people of the Region)—democratization and integration nexus envisaged in the 1980 treaty which established the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Using political and public administration perspectives, the editors argue that for democratization and integration to be tangibly consolidated and institutionalized, direct involvement of the people of Southern Africa, the peoples' agency, is paramount and would lead to what is dubbed in this book as sadcness and sadcnization. More specifically, democratization and integration are about people (citizens), the sovereigns, and not merely the abstract actors called nation states. Using the case studies of Angola, Botswana, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, the contributors have, from political and public administration dimensions, engaged in this epistemology assessing, among other things, the peoples' of Southern Africa-the Southern Africa Development Community integration nexus.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-3020-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3021-4
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 246
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. Angola No access
2. Evaluating Botswana’s Participatory Democracy as a Prelude to Regional Democratization No access
3. Regional Integration of Madagascar within SADC No access
4. Terrorism in Cabo Delgado and Lessons for Enhancing Sadcnization of the Southern Africa Region No access
5. Southern African Development Community, Power, Politics and People No access
6. Rethinking the Concept of the People‌‌ in the Context of Democratization and Integration No access
1. Southern Africa Sadcnization No access
2. Public Administration in the Southern African Development Community Region No access
3. Democratization in the Light of the Challenge of the Regional Integration of Madagascar in SADC‌‌‌ No access
4. Sovereignty and Direct Citizen Participation in Government Policies in Mozambique in the Context No access
5. Inclusive Governance for Effective Public Administration in Southern African Development Community No access
6. Citizen and Civil Society Participation in Public Administration and Governance Processes No access
7. Conclusion and Recommendations No access
Abbreviations and Acronyms No access Pages 217 - 220
Index No access Pages 221 - 234
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 235 - 246