Said Adejumobi - Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa

Interrogating the notion of developmental regionalism as applies to Southern Africa, this volume explores the policy options and interventions necessary to ensure a peaceful and stable regional development process.

With a focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the contributions explore how regional institutions such as this can be drivers of developmental regionalism. Institutional architecture, along with key policy priorities, and implementation strategies in areas such as trade, industry, agriculture, private sector development and conflict management are analysed, and the ramifications of regional interventions for peace building and regional security in post-conflict Southern African countries are explored. Drawing on this analysis the book proffers key policy options and strategies for how developmental regionalism can be both consummated and sustained, ultimately driving economic transformation.

Illustrating to policymakers, scholars and development practitioners how regional institutions can be engines or facilitators of regional development, the book will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of areas including development studies, public policy and African studies.

Said Adejumobi is Director of the Strategy Planning, Oversight and Results Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and formerly the Director of its Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia.

Cyril Obi is Director of the Africa Peacebuilding Network (APN) and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (Next Gen) programs of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, USA.

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Developmental Regionalism and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa

Edited by Said Adejumobi and Cyril Obi

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Said Adejumobi (PhD) is currently Director of Strategic Planning, Oversight and Results Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and was formerly the Director of ECA Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa, Lusaka, Zambia. Before that, he was also Director of the Governance and Public Administration Division at the ECA Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is a former university professor who taught for about two decades and won several academic awards and fellowships. These include post-doctoral fellowship, Social Science Research Council (SSRC) award; Norwegian Nobel Institute fellowship; and visiting scholar fellowship at Aalborg University, Denmark. He also served as Governance Adviser to the ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, Nigeria, before joining the UN. At the ECA, he coordinated the flagship African Governance Report (AGR), which is reputed to be the most comprehensive report on governance in Africa. He has researched and published extensively on issues of governance, democracy, citizenship, regional integration and development in Africa. He has edited/authored 11 books and contributed over 70 articles to international journals and as chapters in books. His recent edited books include Voice and Power in Africas Democracy: Institutions, Participation and Accountability (New York and London: Rout-ledge Publishers, 2018); National Democratic Reforms in Africa: Changes and Challenges (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Democratic Renewal in Africa: Trends and Discourses (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), State, Economy and Society in Post-Military Nigeria (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Governance and Democracy in Post-Military Nigeria: Changes and Challenges (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). He serves on the editorial advisory board of several academic journals, including Social Dynamics and African Journal of Democracy and Governance and is currently the editor of the Journal of African Transformation.

Fantu Cheru (PhD) is Emeritus Professor of international relations, American University (Washington, DC) and a senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University (The Netherlands). He was a research director at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden (20072012) and a member of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annans Panel on Mobilizing International Support for the New Partnership for African Development. Professor Cherus publication include Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy (with Chris Cramer and Arkebe Oqubay, 2018); Agricultural Development and Food Security in Africa: The Impact of Chinese, Indian and Brazilian Investments (2013); Africa and International Relations in the 21st Century, (with Scarlett Cornelissen and Timothy M. Shaw (2011); The Rise of China and India in Africa (2010). Dr. Cheru serves on the editorial board of several scholarly journals.

Annie Barbara Chikwanha (PhD) is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Her broad research interests include democracy, governance, security sector governance, transitional justice and peace and conflict in the African region.