Browsing by Author "Duthie, Shawn Robert"

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    Book Review: The Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century: From the Old World to the New
    (2012-12) Duthie, Shawn Robert
    In this follow-up to their previous collaboration The Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century: A View from the South, Harry Stephan and Michael Power have produced an updated look at the continent. The newest edition follows the same structure and argument as the 2006 edition, but tells of an Africa that has witnessed major changes over the past five years. Stephan, a University of Cape Town-based academic and manager of a large company, and Power, a global strategist at Investec, South Africa, are more than suited to the challenge of producing a book of this nature, given their experience in the business world, which no doubt improves the analysis of the relevant theories of African political economy.
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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.