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Alternative Regionalisms
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South Africa
Dot Keet

Research Associate, Alternative Information & Development Center

Dot Keet is a South African academic and activist involved in many national, African and international networks resisting corporate "free trade" agreements.  She is an active member of 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.

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

English

Selected publications: 
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
South-South Strategic Alternatives to the Global Economic System and Power Regime

Recent content by Dot Keet

‘The Crisis’ and the Crises of Global Capitalism - Challenges for, and Alternatives from 'The South’ (17 Mar 2010)

Alternative socieconomic strategies implemented by countries and peoples of the South could serve as a model for global alternatives to the globalised capitalism.

Debating Europe: WTO Doha Round and EPAs in an era of crisis: salvation or suicide for ACP countries? (Video) (16 Dec 2009)

The international free trade and investment policies and the related WTO agreements played a major role in undermining so many developing countries' economies. The proponents of tese policies, including the EU, are now urging the govenrments of the world to end their resistance to such policies within the WTO.

The WTO Doha round and EPAs in an era of crisis (5 Nov 2009)

The major causes of the economic and social crises are now being even more blatantly promoted by the EU - both within the multilateral WTO negotiations and bilateral and bi-regional FTA/EPA negotiations - as the fundamental solutions.

The World Crisis - and beyond (28 Oct 2009)

The multiple crises of the capitalist world economy give the left the unique opportunity to discuss and promote ideas of transformative steps and social alternatives. Which conditions for a post-capitalist world do already exist and what are our responses to this development?

The implications of ‘the global crisis’ for the Southern African Development Community (13 Jul 2009)

What is fundamental for Southern African to overcome the underlying structural crisis are democratic, inclusive and accountable participatory developmental states firmly orientated to serve the needs of their counties and peoples, their environments …. and the planetary eco-system.

Southern Africa: whither regional integration? (22 May 2008)
As a result of the free trade agreements with the European Union, called economic partnership agreements, regional integration in Southern Africa is in tatters. The question arises: what kind of integration would engender broad-based development?
The EU’s self-serving policies and programs in Africa (1 Dec 2007)
The role of the state and states in the processes towards development cooperation and regional integration in Southern Africa (1 Aug 2007)
Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) (11 Jun 2007)

This paper highlights the negative effects of liberalisation of trade and investment within weaker economies and, in particular, how EU trade agreements undermine existing efforts towards developmental integration in ACP regions.

China as 'partner' or neo-colonial operator in Africa ? (25 May 2007)
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