Opis: Region-Building in Africa

This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African subregions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects. Leading scholars and practitioners have come together to analyze a range of entwined topics, such as the theoretical underpinnings that have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the political economy of integration; the complexities of integration in a context of weak states; the increasing salience of Africa's relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers like China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional blocs. A core argument of this book is that region-building must be recognized as a political project as much as-if not more than-an economic one; successful region-building in Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of strengthening state capacity, resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and political dominance, improving democratic governance, and developing legitimate and inclusive transnational political structures.Introduction; Daniel Levine and Dawn Nagar PART I: THEMES AND CONCEPTS OF REGION-BUILDING AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA 1. Region-building Debates in a Global Context; Louise Fawcett \ 2. Regional Integration in Africa: Theory and Practice; John Ravenhill 3. A Tale of Three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raul Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji; Adekeye Adebajo PART II: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF AFRICA'S REGION-BUILDING AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION INITIATIVES 4. Cross-border Interactions and Regionalism; Daniel Bach 5. Infrastructure and Regional Integration in Africa; Afeikhena Jerome and David Nabena 6. African Agency Post-2015: The Roles of Regional Powers and Developmental States in Regional Integration; Timothy M. Shaw 7. The Political Economy of Africa's Region-building and Regional Integration; Samuel K.B. Asante PART III: THE AFRICAN UNION (AU) AND SUB-REGIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND INITIATIVES 8. The African Union and Region Integration in Africa; Kasaija Phillip Apuuli 9. Region-building in Southern Africa; Scott Taylor 10. Region-building in Eastern Africa; Gilbert M. Khadiagala 11. COMESA and SADC: The Era of Convergence; Dawn Nagar 12. Region-building in West Africa; Said Adejumobi 13. Region-building in Central Africa; Rene Lemarchand 14. Region-building in North Africa; Azzedine Layachi PART IV: COMPARATIVE REGIONAL SCHEMES: LESSONS FOR AFRICA 15. Necessary but Not Automatic: How Europe Learned to Integrate; N. Piers Ludlow 16. Lessons from Asia: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Mely Caballero-Anthony 17. Lessons from Latin America: MERCOSUR; Laura Gomez-Mera Conclusion; Daniel Levine

Szczegóły: Region-Building in Africa

Tytuł: Region-Building in Africa
Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137601575
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 373
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.45 kg

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