Region-building in Africa : political and economic challenges

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Region-building in Africa : political and economic challenges

edited by Daniel H. Levine and Dawn Nagar

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects. Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the political economy of integration, including the sources of different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A core argument of this book, running through all chapters, 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 (including states' capacity as 'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and political dominance, improving democratic governance, and developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate and inclusive.

Table of Contents

  • 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

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