THINK PIECE 13 Summary • analytical paper draws on an earlier offering and engages with two key policy framings of the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC). • are: the Revised (Harmonized) Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation(SIPO II), and the recently reviewed Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan(RISDP). • these two policy framings provide the regional body’s most elaborate and systematic articulation on the Security/Development nexus. • paper provides a critique of both frameworks against the background of the linear model of regional integration that privileges market and trade integration over project and development integration. 1 The Security-Development Nexus: A View from Southern Africa André du Pisani The 15-member Southern African Development Community(SADC) is one of several Regional Economic Communities(RECs) in Africa that attempts to pull together development and security concerns at the regional level. The formative history of SADC was one of state­centric interaction chiefly amongst the former Frontline States(FLS) – Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – and the former liberation movements, the African National Congress (ANC), the Southwest Africa People’s Organization(SWAPO), the Zimbabwe African National Union(ZANU), and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union(ZAPU). This interaction turned on reducing economic dependence on South Africa under the former apartheid regime and promoting the decolonization of the region, and in the case of the then Southern Rhodesia(Zimbabwe) and Namibia, their independence. The SADC in its current form, notwithstanding an enlargement of its membership, was constituted in 1990, and since its inception, but especially since 2006, the regional body has deepened its cooperation with International Cooperating Partners(ICPs), also in the domains of development and security. The politics of resource mobilization determined that both the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan(RISDP) in all its iterations, as well as the Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ on Politics and Security Cooperation(SIPO I& II), secured significant international support and funding. As a Regional Economic Community(REC), SADC stands in a triadic relationship to the African Union(AU), its peace and security architecture, and the United Nations(UN)(the latter under Chapter 8 of the UN Charter) in the domains of peace and security. ICP support to the SADC Common Agenda is guided by a framework of cooperation adopted in Windhoek, Namibia, in April 2006. The Windhoek Declaration is based on the five key principles derived from the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and provides for: (1) Ownership,(2) Alignment,(3) Harmonisation,(4) Managing for Results, and(5) Mutual Accountability. The managerial and donor language of governance is unmistakable. This paper will now turn to the first of two key SADC policy framings: the 2010 Revised Edition of the Harmonised Strategic Indicative