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Botswana in the Modern World-System

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O knihe

Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 78, Stellenbosch Universitiy, course: Comparative Political Economy, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Botswana is described as the "African miracle" (Samatar, 1999), as an "exception"
(Good, 1992), or as "a rare example of an African state that used its bonanza of
mineral riches wisely" (Meredith, 2006:285). However, critique verbalized by Taylor
(2003) and Good (1992) has shown that Botswana's economic history is not a pure
success story; even it illustrates a positive example of African development
compared to almost all the other African countries. To analyze Botswana's economic
history I will date back to the beginning of the 1900s. At this time, Botswana's eight
main chiefdoms dominated regional African trade. The indigenous elite welcomed
trade with European settlers who arrived in this period. While Botswana's neighbor
countries experienced the process of incorporation into the modern world-economy
already, Botswana started to shift into the external arena of the global economy. This
essay will show how Botswana is and has incorporated into the modern worldeconomy
referred to Immanuel Wallerstein's modern world-system theory. I will start
with an overview about Botswana's actual trade situation to be able to locate the
country within the global division of labor. Afterwards the paper analyses the history
of Botswana's shift into the external arena of the modern world-system followed by its
incorporation. Furthermore, I will illustrate Botswana's economic development since
the incorporation. A second part of Botswana's history deals with the economy-based
class structure and how it shaped the political history since Botswana achieved
political independence in 1966. I will argue that the class structure, as already
indicated, has to be understood in the context of pre-colonial and colonial
development. After all, I will point out what important contemporary political-economic
features of Botswana are not accounted for in my world-systems-based analysis. The
essay will finish with a short conclusion to draw a statement about a world-system
based analysis about Botswana's political-economy.