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Title: | African Unification: Part Experience and Future Promise |
Author: | Mehta, Satish C. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Africa Quarterly |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 89-100 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | African Union African organizations common markets Politics and Government Inter-African Relations |
Abstract: | The African Union (AU) was inaugurated on 11 July, 2001. In this article the author reviews past attempts to effectuate economic integration in Africa, the most successful being under the thirty-eight year existence of the OAU. There were plans to set up an African Economic Community (AEC), laid down in the Abuja Treaty of 1991. It was supposed to have been achieved by 2025. Because of persistently adverse political and economic conditions, the actualization of the AEC Treaty never took place. The author essays an comparison between the EU and the AU and points out that the AU could learn more from organizations in similar situation like the South Cone Common Market of Latin America (MERCOSUR), the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), or the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). In his discussion of the process of establishment, he looks at issues and at the process of operations, examining an operational model. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstracts] |