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In the debates about a post‐apartheid future, the prospects for the region as a whole have been ignored. They depend first on the position of southern and South Africa in the global division of labour: this has worsened more than most areas since 1950 – even South Africa is more dependent today on exporting primary products; and regional trade, despite the Southern African Conference on Coordination and Development (SADCC), is declining. This deterioration could continue under the redefinition of economic activities now occurring in the world economy. These prospects also reflect the inherited realities: over and above the modest efforts of SADCC, southern Africa's long relations with the South African economy make it into a whole that is more than just a geographically specific set of peripheral states.
Three possible scenarios are explored: the region's renewed and enhanced subordination to an apartheid‐free South African economy; the break‐up of regional ties and the subordination of each of the countries as separate 'peripheries' of one section or other of the developed core, as it itself is being redefined between the North Atlantic and Pacific; an alternative, equitable, cooperative regional association, embracing SADCC and South Africa. In the light of historical experience in southern Africa and elsewhere, this latter will face severe odds, cannot be left to dominant interests, and is only possible with regional alliances of anti‐systemic forces.

Der Aufsatz diskutiert die entwicklungspolitischen Perspektiven im südlichen Afrika nach Beendigung der Apartheid. Drei mögliche Szenarien werden untersucht; eine neue und verstärkte wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit der Region von der südafrikanischen Wirtschaft; Zusammenbruch regionaler Kooperation und Abhängigkeit der einzelnen Länder von den Industriezentren; Verstärkte regionale Zusammenarbeit unter Einbeziehung der Republik Südafrika, Ausbau von SADCC. (DÜI-Mcd)

The 'New Bandung' framework presumes a stable North/South order and opposition to it. This article examines how reigning orthodoxies on the acquisition of land and agricultural investments in Africa by Asian states and corporations do not fit this model. This holds even for core-centric models such as 'accumulation by dispossession', which fail to capture the collapse of accumulation strategies in the global North as they relate to new powers, policies and movements in the South. Rather than a crisis of accumulation, Asian investment represents an attempt to cater to higher food demands of rising elites in the 'emerging economies' and a class collaboration between them and African elites. This represents the end of a process of expansion of the global North that had begun circa 1750. It follows that the future can no longer rely upon North/South polar models and theories.

The militarisation of US–African relations has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Left largely unexplored, however, is the question of how this process has involved US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular, military and intelligence funding of US Africanists' research including at the major African Studies centres. While the classification of much federal research limits conclusions, it is apparent that military and intelligence priorities are coming to significantly shape the present and future of much research and training.