Gavin Cawthra
Biographic Data
| ID | 124369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gavin Cawthra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gavin |
| FAMILY NAME | Cawthra |
| SIGNATURE | CAWTHRA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The death of security sector reform? The South African exemplar revisited
Security sector reform (SSR) or transformation in South Africa has until recently almost universally been regarded as a success. While achievements have been real and many are enduring, under the presidency of Jacob Zuma a creeping effort by corrupt parvenu elites to capture the state for personal enrichment has become evident. The impact of this on the SSR project has not been sufficiently analysed. This article does not deal with state capture …
Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa
Nuclear Africa
This paper examines the rather limited African experience of nuclear weapons, and the implications of global nuclear weapon possession and proliferation - and responses against it - for Africa. Because there is a contingent, but not necessary, relationship between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons, it also touches on civil nuclear issues in Africa, and the implications of uranium production. Since the only country in Africa that has actuall…
Collaborative Regional Security and Mutual Defence
This paper examines the nature of regional collaborative security and mutual defence, their application at sub-regional and regional organisational level and the implications for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It starts by examining some key concepts related to security cooperation within regions and sub-regions, and then develops a set of questions related to the nature and character of regional security collaboration. In add…
Security Governance in South Africa
In the ten years since the establishment of South Africa's first inclusive democratic government, an ambitious, extensive and systematic process of reform has been carried out in the governance of security. The process is widely regarded as having been successful and a model for other processes of ‘security sector reform’ in the context of transitions from authoritarian forms of governance to democratic ones. That this been achieved with hardly a…
Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa
Scholarship on the New South Africa
Subregional Security
Brutal force
Books reviewed
Sylvester Stein, Second‐Class Taxi (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 209. £4.45. Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1982). Pp. 92. £4.00. John Howland Beaumont, The Great Karoo (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 96. £3.20. Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982). Pp. xiii+437. £9.95. Paul B. Rich, White Power and the Liberal Cons…
Nuclear Africa
This paper examines the rather limited African experience of nuclear weapons, and the implications of global nuclear weapon possession and proliferation - and responses against it - for Africa. Because there is a contingent, but not necessary, relationship between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons, it also touches on civil nuclear issues in Africa, and the implications of uranium production. Since the only country in Africa that has actuall…
Collaborative Regional Security and Mutual Defence
This paper examines the nature of regional collaborative security and mutual defence, their application at sub-regional and regional organisational level and the implications for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It starts by examining some key concepts related to security cooperation within regions and sub-regions, and then develops a set of questions related to the nature and character of regional security collaboration. In add…
Security Governance in South Africa
In the ten years since the establishment of South Africa's first inclusive democratic government, an ambitious, extensive and systematic process of reform has been carried out in the governance of security. The process is widely regarded as having been successful and a model for other processes of ‘security sector reform’ in the context of transitions from authoritarian forms of governance to democratic ones. That this been achieved with hardly a…
Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa
Scholarship on the New South Africa
Subregional Security
Books reviewed
Sylvester Stein, Second‐Class Taxi (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 209. £4.45. Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1982). Pp. 92. £4.00. John Howland Beaumont, The Great Karoo (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 96. £3.20. Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982). Pp. xiii+437. £9.95. Paul B. Rich, White Power and the Liberal Cons…
Books reviewed
Sylvester Stein, Second‐Class Taxi (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 209. £4.45. Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (Johannesburg: Ad Donker, 1982). Pp. 92. £4.00. John Howland Beaumont, The Great Karoo (Cape Town and Johannesburg: David Philip, 1983). Pp. 96. £3.20. Sol T. Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982). Pp. xiii+437. £9.95. Paul B. Rich, White Power and the Liberal Cons…
Brutal force
Subregional Security
Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa
Scholarship on the New South Africa
Security Governance in South Africa
In the ten years since the establishment of South Africa's first inclusive democratic government, an ambitious, extensive and systematic process of reform has been carried out in the governance of security. The process is widely regarded as having been successful and a model for other processes of ‘security sector reform’ in the context of transitions from authoritarian forms of governance to democratic ones. That this been achieved with hardly a…
Nuclear Africa
This paper examines the rather limited African experience of nuclear weapons, and the implications of global nuclear weapon possession and proliferation - and responses against it - for Africa. Because there is a contingent, but not necessary, relationship between civil nuclear power and nuclear weapons, it also touches on civil nuclear issues in Africa, and the implications of uranium production. Since the only country in Africa that has actuall…
Collaborative Regional Security and Mutual Defence
This paper examines the nature of regional collaborative security and mutual defence, their application at sub-regional and regional organisational level and the implications for the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It starts by examining some key concepts related to security cooperation within regions and sub-regions, and then develops a set of questions related to the nature and character of regional security collaboration. In add…
Defensive Restructuring of the Armed Forces in Southern Africa
The death of security sector reform? The South African exemplar revisited
Security sector reform (SSR) or transformation in South Africa has until recently almost universally been regarded as a success. While achievements have been real and many are enduring, under the presidency of Jacob Zuma a creeping effort by corrupt parvenu elites to capture the state for personal enrichment has become evident. The impact of this on the SSR project has not been sufficiently analysed. This article does not deal with state capture …
Political science (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works) · Management (3 works) · Military, Security, and Education Studies (3 works)