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Title:Regional integration: a new approach to modern State making and Statehood
Author:Mvungi, S.E.A.ISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Eastern Africa Law Review (ISSN 0012-8678)
Volume:35-40
Pages:47-66
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:economic integration
federalism
political unification
State formation
Abstract:While following the steps taken by the European States to form the EU all the way, the East African Community's model breaks new ground by becoming one of the few subregional integration arrangements that expressly stipulates in the treaty that its core objective is the creation of a new subregional State in the nature of a political federation. A thorough perusal of the Constitutive Act of the African Union reveals that the continental aspirations, hope and objective of a single African State is reflected nowhere in the Act. This paper discusses the salient principles governing State making through regional and subregional integration processes. It first pays attention to the constitutive features of regional States, and examines federalism and subsidiarity, the most important principles that can be used in regional State making. Next, the paper looks at the functional principle of federation, and the operational principles of a regional State. In conclusion, the principles of democracy, human rights and the rule of law are discussed. The paper concludes that a single African mega State is the only way Africa can face the challenges of globalization. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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