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Title:The collapse of the Organization of African Unity: lessons from economics and history
Author:Kufuor, Kofi OtengISNI
Year:2005
Periodical:Journal of African Law
Volume:49
Issue:2
Pages:132-144
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:OAU
economics
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/27607944
Abstract:The analytical tools of the New Institutional Economics (NIE) school provide fruitful lines of inquiry into the decision to replace the Organization of African Unity (OAU) with the African Union (AU). The application of two NIE methodologies, economics and history, explains why the OAU failed to play a meaningful role in African affairs. Relying on economic tools, the paper explores issues relating to the monitoring of the members' commitments, the provision of public goods, decisionmaking, and membership of the OAU. Historical approaches seek to explain why the OAU remained as Africa's paramount regional organization for four decades despite the obvious flaws in the OAU's design and the consequent inefficiencies these flaws produced. Notes, ref., sum. (p. i). [Journal abstract]
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