TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Southern African Development Community as Regional Peacekeeper: Myth or Reality?
JO  - African security
A1  - Schoeman, Maxi
A1  - Muller, Marie
SP  - 175
EP  - 192
VL  - 2
IS  - 2-3
N2  - ABSTRACT This article pays attention to the ability of Southern African Development Community as a subregional organization to provide peace and security within and between its members, using the conflicts and interventions in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies. It pays particular attention to the differences between official versions of involvement and operational experiences and to whose security is protected?that of states, or that of the people (human security)? It concludes that although the Southern African Development Community region cannot be described as a zone of war, there is nevertheless no genuine capacity for promoting the well-being of the people of the region and that the Southern African Development Community is inherently a sovereignty-boosting form of regional governance rather than an ascending security community.<p /> 
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SN  - 1939-2206
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19362200903362083
ID  - ref1
ER  -