Southern African Development Community as Regional Peacekeeper: Myth or Reality?

Schoeman, Maxi; Muller, Marie

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“…However, this is primarily owed to bias in the empirical application of the three concepts, as the underlying theoretical criteria do not exclude oceans per se. Regional security communities are based on pronounced interdependence and the ensuing cooperation-or even integration-to jointly solve security concerns (Schoeman & Muller, 2009). Regional security complexes rest on a similar conceptualisation of the impossibility of a state being unaffected by security changes within a specific regional surrounding (Lake, 1997).…”

Section: Regional Security and Maritime Spacesmentioning

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An Ocean Free of Nuclear Weapons? Regional Security Governance in the South Atlantic

Mattheis

Seabra

2022

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Even though oceans are pivotal for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, they constitute a blind spot in the global non-proliferation regime. This article analyses how regional security governance mechanisms may fill such gaps by bringing a maritime focus to non-proliferation studies. With three nuclear-weapons-free zones and one zone of peace surrounding or covering its maritime space, the South Atlantic serves as an illustrative case to understand the provision of security governance for the seas. The article identifies a range of legal, political, and practical challenges that can impede regional initiatives from achieving security sovereignty over maritime spaces. However, while non-proliferation might remain precarious, these mechanisms are not without success, as they serve to establish the opposition to nuclear weapons as a recognised norm, both at the UN level and among the Global South. The narrative of non-proliferation also allows regional states to justify the pursuit of security objectives. The article concludes by outlining the conditions for regional maritime governance to become more effective in terms of non-proliferation.

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Section: Regional Security and Maritime Spacesmentioning

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An Ocean Free of Nuclear Weapons? Regional Security Governance in the South Atlantic

Mattheis

Seabra

2022

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“…5; Coleman 2007: chs. 4, 5; Schoeman & Muller 2009). South Africa and Botswana's intervention in Lesotho emphasised the neutral peacekeeping objectives of preventing anarchy and restoring law and order, but was requested by Lesotho's Prime Minister and clearly favoured the government: its concept of operations bluntly called for the identification and containment of ‘destabilisers and destabiliser resources … where applicable with the necessary force to eliminate the threat’ (Malan 1999: 52).…”

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Innovations in ‘African solutions to African problems’: the evolving practice of regional peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa

Coleman

2011

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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Three critical trends in the evolving practice of regional peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa have undermined the usefulness of the common conceptual dichotomy between regional peacekeeping and UN/global peacekeeping. First, sub-Saharan African states have distanced themselves from long-term autonomous regional peacekeeping, and currently favour explicitly interim missions that are a prelude rather than an alternative to UN peacekeeping. Second, the analytically clear line between regional peacekeeping and the separate sub-Saharan African tradition of solidarity deployments (i.e. military support of embattled governments) has in practice become blurred, and the regional vs global peacekeeping dichotomy not only fails to acknowledge this trend but helps to obscure it. Finally, sub-Saharan African states are increasingly addressing regional conflicts by participating in UN operations deployed in the region. UN peacekeeping has thus emerged as a preferred form of regional peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa”

Klotz

2024

Culture and Religion in International Relations

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Southern African Development Community as Regional Peacekeeper: Myth or Reality?

Cited by 4 publications

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An Ocean Free of Nuclear Weapons? Regional Security Governance in the South Atlantic

An Ocean Free of Nuclear Weapons? Regional Security Governance in the South Atlantic

Innovations in ‘African solutions to African problems’: the evolving practice of regional peacekeeping in sub-Saharan Africa

Historical Roots of South African Ambivalence Toward “Africa”

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