Bulletin n. 3/2008
February 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Cawthra Gavin
    Collaborative Regional Security and Mutual Defence: SADC in Comparative Perspective
    in Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies , Volume 35 Issue 2 ,  2008 ,  159 - 176
    This paper examines the nature of regional collaborative security and mutual defence, their application at sub-regional and regional organisational level and the implications for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It starts by examining some key concepts related to security cooperation within regions and sub-regions, and then develops a set of questions related to the nature and character of regional security collaboration. In addressing these questions, it examines concrete manifestations of these principles through actual (sub-)regional collaborative security organisations in the developing world. Turning to SADC, it draws some implications and lessons learned from global practices, and concludes that many of the challenges SADC faces are similar to those in other regional organisations in the developing world.
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