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    New regionalism in the South - Mercosur and SADC in a comparative and interregional perspective
    (2015) Duthie, Shawn Robert
    This is a unique and intelligent work that challenges the dominant normative approaches towards regionalism. Based on the author’s PhD research, the book navi- gates away from the overused regional comparisons with the European Union (EU), moving towards a South–South comparison; it also avoids treating regionalism in the South as sui generis. Mattheis analyses two regional organisations – Mercosur1 and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) – to answer two major ques- tions: how do regionalisms produce regions; and how does inter-regionalism change the nature of regionalism?
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    Review: The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War
    (2011-08) Duthie, Shawn Robert
    Nigerian scholar Adekeye Adebajo’s book The Curse of Berlin: Africa After the Cold War centres on the 1884 1885 conference in Germany, presided over by the ‘Iron Chancellor’ Otto von Bismarck. It was at this conference the imperial powers gathered to discuss matters concerning the free trade in the Congo and free navigation of the Congo and the Niger, but more importantly how to peacefully annex the rest of the continent among themselves. Ironically, it was this conference of ‘European locusts’ which called for peace that ‘distorted African politics, economics, and society; damaged indigenous cultures; and retarded socioeconomic development’ (p. 1) to the present day.