Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region: Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization - Couverture rigide

 
9781666930207: Integration in the Southern African Development Community Region: Peoples' Agency, Popular Participation, and Democratization

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

Korwa Gombe Adar is professor of international studies at the University of Botswana.

Dorothy Mpabanga is associate professor of political and administrative studies at the University of Botswana.

Kebapetse Lotshwao is senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Botswana.

Thekiso Molokwane is extraordinary professor of public administration at North-West University and senior lecturer of public administration in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Botswana.

Norbert Musekiwa is senior lecturer of public administration at the University of Botswana.

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