Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa write by Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka. This book was released on 2021-05-07. Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy of non-state actors, who are relegated to the periphery. The book demonstrates that civil society networks in Southern Africa constitute well-governed, self-organised entities that function just like formal regional arrangements driven by state actors and technocrats. The book amplifies this point by deploying New Institutionalism and the New Regionalism Approach to examine the role and efficacy of non-state actors in building regions from below. The book develops a unique typology that shows how Southern African regional civil society networks adopt strategies, norms and rules to establish an efficient form of alternative integration in the region. Based on a critical analysis of this self-organised regionalism, the book projects the reality that alternative regionalism driven by non-state actors is possible. This book expands the study of regionalism in the SADC, and makes a significant and innovative contribution to the study of contemporary regionalism.
Regional Economic Communities
Regional Economic Communities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Regional Economic Communities write by Olutayo, Akinpelu O.. This book was released on 2015-12-01. Regional Economic Communities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how the existence of overlapping regional institutions has presented a daunting challenge to the workings of various Regional Economic Communities (RECs) on the African continent. The majority of the African countries are members of overlapping and, sometimes, contradictory RECs. For instance, in East Africa, while Kenya and Uganda are both members of EAC and COMESA, Tanzania, which is also a member of the EAC, left COMESA in 2001 to join SADC. In West Africa, while all former French colonies belong to ECOWAS, they simultaneously keep membership of UEMOA, an organization which is not recognized by the African Union (AU). Such multiple and confusing memberships create unnecessary duplication and dims the light on what ought to be priority. Various chapters in this book have therefore sought to identify and proffer solutions to related challenges confronting the workings of the RECs in different sub-regions of the African continent. The discourses range from security to the stock exchange, identity integration, development framework, labour movement and cross-border relations. The pattern adopted in the book involves devolution of related discussions from the general to the specific; that is, from the continental level to sub-regional case studies.
Assessing Regional Integration in Africa II
Assessing Regional Integration in Africa II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing Regional Integration in Africa II write by African Union. This book was released on 2006. Assessing Regional Integration in Africa II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report examines the effectiveness of Africa's regional economic communities in pushing forward the regional integration agenda towards the objectives of the Abuja Treaty establishing the African Economic Community. A fully functioning African Economic Community will remove all barriers to movement of people, goods and services across the continent, thereby creating a single economic space. The report examines the critical role that institutions in general can play in achieving policy objectives, and the specific role that African institutions perform. The analysis focuses on the regional economic communities, which have been designated by the African Union as the building blocks for achieving the African Economic Community.
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa
The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa write by Morris Odhiambo. This book was released on 2016-03-02. The Civil Society Guide to Regional Economic Communities in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since 1963, when the African integration project was born, regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been an indispensable part of the continents deeper socioeconomic and political integration. More than half a century later, such regional institutions continue to evolve, keeping pace with an Africa that is transforming itself amid challenges and opportunities. RECs represent a huge potential to be the engines that drive the continents economic growth and development as well as being vehicles through which a sense of a continental community is fostered. It is critical therefore that citizens understand the multi-faceted and bureaucratic operations of regional institutions in order to use them to advance their collective interests.
The Quest for an African Economic Community
The Quest for an African Economic Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quest for an African Economic Community write by Wolff-Christian Peters. This book was released on 2010. The Quest for an African Economic Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The African Union (AU) aims at creating an African Economic Community (AEC) by 2034. Eight recognized Regional Economic Communities (REC) are supposed to form the building blocs of the AEC. The book shows that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is currently the most advanced and promising REC but still behind schedule in reaching its own integration objectives. If the currently most successful of the African RECs may not achieve sufficiently deep regional integration in time then the chances to establish the AEC by 2034 are slim indeed. Combining economic and political analysis the author examines SADC, its achievements and potential in detail. Special reference is given to the impact of the Zimbabwe crisis on regional integration.
