Working Group on Europe and Transitions in (Southern) Africa

Activities

• Call for Submissions: EADI Prize for Development Studies 2010
• Annual Report 2009
• Sessions at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Leipzig, Germany, in June 2009.
• As a first visible result of our institutionalized collaboration we will seek to publish a book volume based on the revised versions of papers presented at the EADI General Conference and the forthcoming ECAS.
• A funding application for the EU to explore further the European policy and its effects towards the transitional processes in the Southern African region is under preparation. 

Recent Activities

• Session at the 12th EADI General Conference, 24-28 June 2008, Geneva.

About this Working Group

On occasion of the EADI General Conference in Geneva in 2008, the University of Bologna and the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation co-organised a session on Global Governance, SADC and Liberation Movements as Governments in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe (see the session report).

The session provided at the same time the opportunity to discuss among the participants further the idea to establish an EADI Working Group on Europe and Africa, with special (but not exclusive) focus on transitional processes in the Southern African region.

The Working Group is constituted for the time being until the EADI General Conference in 2014, i.e. for a period of almost six years. It will recruit several more highly competent scholars mainly from within the Southern African region, but also seek collaboration with CODESRIA and scholars based in Europe and elsewhere.

Recommended Readings

Dag Hammerskjöld Foundation, www.dhf.uu.se.

Occasional Paper Series, Centro Dipartementale di Studi Storici e Politici su Africa e Medio Oriente, 2008/2009. Authors: Roberta Pellizzoli, Mario Zamponi et al.

Working Paper Series, Centro Dipartementale di Studi Storici e Politici su Africa e Medio Oriente, 2008/2009. Authors: Roberta Pellizzoli, Mario Zamponi et al.

Transition in Southern Africa. Comparative Aspects. Two Lectures. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Discussion Paper No. 10, 2001,  Authors: Henning Melber, Christopher Sauders.

Political Cultures in Democratic South Africa. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Discussion Paper No. 19, 2002, Authors: Michael Neocosmos, Raymond Suttner, Ian Taylor.

Re-Examining Liberation in Namibia. Political Culture since Independence. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), 2003, Editor: Henning Melber.

Zimbabwe - The Policital Economy of Decline. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Discussion Paper No. 27, Authors: Suzanne Dansereau, Mario Zamponi.

Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa. The Unfinished Business of Democratic Consolidation. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Book, 2003, Editor: Henning Melber.

Legacies of Power. Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics. Book, 2006, Editors: Henning Melber, Roger Southall.

Political Opposition in African Countries. The Cases of Kenya, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Nordic Africa Institute (NAI), Discussion Paper No. 37, 2007, Authors: Henning Melber et al.

Post-Independence Authoritarianism. Journal Development and Cooperation No. 10, 2008, Author: Henning Melber

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