Author : Johannes Muntschick
Release : 2017-10-09
Genre : Political Science
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) - 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 Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) write by Johannes Muntschick. This book was released on 2017-10-09. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC’s major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a ‘game-changer’ insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.