DOT KEET

Research Associate, Alternative Information & Development Center
dkeet [at] iafrica.com

TNI Fellow and Research Associate of the 'Alternative
Regionalisms' project- coordinated by TNI, focused on
alternative regional and inter-regional strategies to
neo-liberal globalisation - Keet is simultaneously
Research Associate of the Alternative Information and
Development Center (AIDC) headquartered in Cape Town.
From this base, she is active in the national South
African Trade Strategy Group (TSG) and the Southern
African Peoples Solidarity Network (SAPSN), the key
coordinator of the Southern African Social Forum
(SASF); as well as the continent-wide Africa Trade
Network (ATN); and the international Our World is Not
for Sale (OWINFS) network

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of interest

Southern African Political Economy; Alternative Regionalisms; Africa, the WTO & International Trade; Africa/EU Relations & Debt

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Contributions to books

Debating Nepad
Institute for African Initiatives
New Agenda. South African Journal of Social and Economic Policy Issue 9, First Quarter 2003
Extracts from: "The New Partnership for Africa's Development. "Unity and Integration within Africa?" or "Integration of Africa into the Global Economy"

The International Anti-debt Campaign. A Southern Activist View for Activists in the "North" ... and "the South"
Deborah Eade and Ernst Ligteringen (eds)Debating Development, NGOs and the Future Oxfam, England, 2001
Previously published in Development in Practice, Vol 10, Nos 3 & 4, June 1999

"Implications for Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries"
Sarah Anderson (ed) Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries, Food First/International Forum on Globalisation, Oakland, USA, 2000

"Brazil and South Africa in the Regional and Global Economies"
S. Friedman and R. de Villiers (ed). Comparing Brazil and South Africa - Proceedings of a conference on two transnational states in political and economic perspective, IDESP, with CPSA and FGD, Johannesburg, September 1996

"Regulating Labour Rights and Conditions in Southern Africa - from Policy Declarations to Organisational Strategies"
Evance Kalula (ed). Proceedings of the Frederich Ebert Foundation (FES) Conference on Labour Relations in Southern Africa, Durban, July 1993

Papers

Key Economic and Political Challenges Arising from the WTO Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong [PDF] AIDC, April 2006

Technical, tactical and strategic challenges facing the South African government in the multilateral trade system and in relation to the WTO AIDC, January 2006

"Economic Governance and Management" within the African Peer Review Mechanism in South Africa [PDF], December 2006

Further Industrial Tariff Liberalisation Through the WTO AIDC, July 2005 - Versión español

Southern African Peoples' Alternative Perspectives and Proposals on Regional Cooperation and Development AIDC Regional Briefing 6/2004

Multi-Track Strategies of the Major Powers On, and Against, Regional Integration(s) AIDC Regional Briefing 4/2004 - Spanish translation

Challenging WTO Rules Countering Regional Development Strategies AIDC Regional Briefing 3/2004

Counteractive Forces against Regional Development Strategies in Africa AIDC Regional Briefing 2/2004

The Strategic Aims of Regional Cooperation and Integration in Africa AIDC Regional Briefing 1/2004

Regional Programs in the South and New Peoples' Initiatives in the Context of Contrary Internal Governmental Trends and External Interventions TNI Website, November 2003 - Spanish translation

Proposals on the Role of Trade within the New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad). Challenges and Questions [PDF document] Presentation at workshop of African trade unions organised by the National Labour and
Economic Development Institute (NALEDI), Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-23 May 2003

Views from the South on "North-South" Issues and South-North Peoples' Alternatives. Moving from Symptomatic Problems Towards Dealing with Systemic Factors and Forces TNI Website, 1 November 2002

The New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) and the African Union. Unity and Integration within Africa into the Global Economy? [PDF document] AIDC, October 2002

South Africa's Official Position and Role in Promoting the World Trade Organisation [PDF document] AIDC, May 2002

Tactical Means and Strategic Aims in our Campaigns on the World Trade Organisation, Porto Alegre, February 2002

South Africa's Official Position and Role in Promoting the World Trade Organisation and a New Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations AIDC, August 2001

Alternatives to the WTO Regime. A Discussion Paper on Tactics and Strategies [PDF document] AIDC, November 2000

The Challenges Facing African Countries Regarding the WTO "Trade" Regime Since the Third Ministerial Meeting in Seattle Institute for Global Dialogue, Occasional Paper No. 25, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2000

The Implications of the EU's Proposed
"Regional Economic Partnership Agreements" with Respect to Regional Integration and Development in Southern Africa Institute for Global Dialogue Occasional Paper 21, August 1999

Globalisation and Regionalisation. Contradictory Tendencies? Counteractive Tactics? Or Strategic Possibilities? AIDC, April 1999

Europe's Free Trade Plans ... and Strategic Responses From Southern Africa AIDC, 1999

Selected articles