Abstract
For much of recent history, Southern Africa has laid claim to a collective identity that eludes most other geopolitical regions on the African continent.1 Its nations possess myriad informal ties, commonalities of history, colonial and settler legacies, and economic links, which are bound up with more than a generation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) in its current institutional form. Numerous scholarly collections focus on Southern Africa on the basis of a regional distinctiveness that warrants systematic treatment.2 In contrast to other African regional blocs (in West and Central Africa, for example), Southern Africa remains one of the most durable communities, neither wracked by widespread conflict and security crises nor threatened by state collapse.
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