Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Lesley Blaauw Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 328 ISBN: 9783838310268
Описание
The end of the Cold War and the downfall of apartheid compelled SACU and SADC to recast their objectives and purpose. For SACU this meant changing from an organisation dominated by South Africa to a fully-fledged inter-state one. Disconcertedly, however, about the reforms undertook by SACU, is that the disposition of member states remain important in determining the content and scope of regionalism. SADC, on the other hand, has also not sufficiently reform itself to achieve the ambitious goals it set-out for itself. Moreover, while SADC has since its inception in 1992 set-out to involve non-state actors in its regional integration efforts, limited institutional reform in 2000 and beyond, and elites at the forefront of institutional restructuring make it difficult for non-state actors to contribute to sustainable regional integration. The contention here is that that sustainable regionalist orders are best built by recognising that beyond the geometry of state-sovereignty, civil...
