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Title: | Region-building in Africa: political and economic challenges |
Editors: | Levine, Daniel H. Nagar, Dawn |
Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 348 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | New York City |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
ISBN: | 1137586109; 9781137586100; 1137601574; 9781137601575; 9781137586117; 9781137586124 |
Geographic term: | Africa |
Subjects: | regional economic relations economic integration regionalism African organizations |
Abstract: | This book is one of the results of a four-year project on 'Peacebuilding and region-building in Africa' undertaken by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), in Cape Town, South Africa. Contributions: Introduction (Daniel Levine and Dawn Nagar); Part I: Themes and concepts of region-building and regional integration in Africa: Region-building debates in a global context (Louise Fawcett); Regional integration in Africa: theory and practice (John Ravenhill); A tale of three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raúl Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji (Adekeye Adebajo); Part II: The political economy of Africa's region-building and regional integration initiatives: Cross-border interactions and regionalism (Daniel Bach); Infrastructure and regional integration in Africa (Afeikhena Jerome and David Nabena); African agency post-2015: the roles of regional powers and developmental states in regional integration (Timothy M. Shaw); 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: The African Union and region integration in Africa (Kasaija Phillip Apuuli); Region-building in southern Africa (Scott Taylor); Region-building in eastern Africa (Gilbert M. Khadiagala); COMESA and SADC: the era of convergence (Dawn Nagar); Region-building in west Africa (Said Adejumobi); Region-building in central Africa (René Lemarchand); Region-building in north Africa (Azzedine Layachi); Part IV: Comparative regional schemes: lessons for Africa: Necessary but not automatic: how Europe learned to integrate (N. Piers Ludlow); Lessons from Asia: the association of southeast Asian nations (Mely Caballero-Anthony); Lessons from Latin America: MERCOSUR (Laura Goméz-Mera); Conclusion (Daniel Levine). [ASC Leiden abstract] |