A Political Economy Of African Regionalisms

Author : Wil Hout,M.A. Mohamed Salih
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785364372

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A Political Economy of African Regionalisms by Wil Hout,M.A. Mohamed Salih Pdf

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Author : Margaret Carol Lee
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588262243

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The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southern Africa by Margaret Carol Lee Pdf

In the face of increasing economic globalization, the countries of southern Africa have made commitments to enhanced regional development and the integration of their economies. Margaret Lee examines the challenges to regionalism in southern Africa, providing a critical assessment of the prospects for successful implementation. Lee's detailed study of the processes driving (or inhibiting) regional integration is firmly grounded in the history of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Her analysis of the evolution of the SADC regional economy, as well as its political, social, and economic contexts, is a major contribution to debates about the merits and pitfalls of regionalism and options for African integration.

Author : S. K. B. Asante
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037937278

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The Political Economy of Regionalism in Africa by S. K. B. Asante Pdf

Author : F. Söderbaum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230513716

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The Political Economy of Regionalism by F. Söderbaum Pdf

The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.

Author : Fredrik Söderbaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351885010

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The New Regionalism in Africa by Fredrik Söderbaum Pdf

This edited volume transcends conventional state-centric and formalistic notions of regionalism and theorizes, conceptualizes and analyzes the complexities and contradictions of regionalization processes in contemporary Africa. The collection not only unpacks and theorizes the African state-society complex with regard to new regionalism, but also explicitly integrates the often neglected discourse of human security and human development. In so doing, the book moves the discussion of new regionalism forward at the same time as it adds important insights to security and development. It is organized into three parts. Part I theorizes, conceptualizes and analyzes the new regionalism in Africa from the point of view of the region (e.g. West, East, Central and Southern Africa). The national perspectives in Part II focus on the new regionalism in Africa from the point of view of particular countries or specific state-society complexes, such as Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the enclave of Cabinda, Angola and Zambia. Part III contains two concluding chapters that tie the main threads of the volume together, theoretically and empirically, and discuss the contribution of the analytical framework, the new regionalism approach (NRA) to the larger study of regionalism.

Author : S. K. B.. Asante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0003059022

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The Political Economy of Regionalism in Africa by S. K. B.. Asante Pdf

Author : Ulrike Lorenz-Carl,Martin Rempe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317100997

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Mapping Agency by Ulrike Lorenz-Carl,Martin Rempe Pdf

Despite regionalism having developed into a global phenomenon, the European Union (EU) is still more often than not presented as the ’role-model of regionalism’ whose institutional designs and norms are adopted by other regional actors and organizations as part of a rather passive ’downloading process’. Reaching beyond such a Eurocentric perception, Mapping Agency provides an empirically rich ’African perspective’ on regionalisms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It adopts an actor-centred approach but departs from a rather simplified understanding of agency as exerting power and instead scrutinizes to what extent actors actually participate in or are excluded from processes of regionalism. The value of this volume derives from the inclusion of historical dimensions, its open multi-actor approach to both formal and informal processes and its comparative perspective within but also beyond Sub-Saharan Africa. The chapters offer a multifaceted picture of agency beyond disciplinary divides where the EU is one actor amongst many and where local, national, regional and global state and non-state actors shape - and sometimes break - processes of regionalisms in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Ulf Engel,Heidrun Zinecker,Frank Mattheis,Antje Dietze,Thomas Plötze
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315513768

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The New Politics of Regionalism by Ulf Engel,Heidrun Zinecker,Frank Mattheis,Antje Dietze,Thomas Plötze Pdf

This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern in a changing global order. Since the end of the Cold War, different forms of territorialization have emerged and we are confronted with an increasing number and variety of actors that are establishing regional projects. This volume offers an innovative contribution to the study of this new complexity by exploring constellations of regional actors, spatial scales and imaginations beyond state-centred perspectives as well as on multiple, often overlapping levels. The chapters analyse the emergence, trajectories and outcomes of regionalisms from the perspective of the Global South, specifically concentrating on regional projects in Latin America and Africa, but also in the Asia-Pacific. They attempt to identify the specific conditions and junctures of different forms of region-making in their external (global) and internal (local/national) dimensions. The volume also places special emphasis on interactions, spatial entanglements and comparisons between regionalisms in different parts of the world. By expanding beyond the perspective of North-South transfers, this book seeks to better understand the dynamics and diversity of interregional interactions. This volume will appeal to scholars of global studies, international political economy, international relations, human geography, and development studies, as well as area studies specialists who focus on Latin America and Africa.

Author : Edward D. Mansfield,Helen V. Milner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231106637

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The Political Economy of Regionalism by Edward D. Mansfield,Helen V. Milner Pdf

Exploring regionalism from a political economic perspective, this text investigates why regional arrangements are formed, the conditions under which these arrangements solidify, and why they take on different institutional forms.

Author : Timothy M. Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317162995

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Comparative Regionalisms for Development in the 21st Century by Timothy M. Shaw Pdf

The global 'financial' crisis at the turn of the decade has accelerated changes in the relative standing of major regions. As both the US and Eurozone economies have confronted a series of setbacks and struggles to find their second breath, so Asia, Latin America and even Africa have picked up the slack and have been able to maintain high levels of growth. The resilience of the Global South questions whether we are witnessing an evolution towards a regional rebalancing or even global restructuring. This responding volume has four interrelated topics. It explores the transformation taking place in/with regard to the financing of development in the Global South and the apparition of new players in the field. The emergence of 'New Regionalisms' in the South and the usefulness of these experiences for comparative studies of regional relationship is explicated. It turns its attention to new forms of transnational governance that are emerging and the role that a novelty of actors play in this 'new multilateralism'. Finally, it looks into the implications of this trio of novel directions and players for analyses and policies.

Author : Daniel H. Levine,Dawn Nagar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137586117

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Region-Building in Africa by Daniel H. Levine,Dawn Nagar Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel C Bach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317557210

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Regionalism in Africa by Daniel C Bach Pdf

Africa, which was not long ago discarded as a hopeless and irrelevant region, has become a new 'frontier' for global trade, investment and the conduct of international relations. This book surveys the socio-economic, intellectual and security related dimensions of African regionalisms since the turn of the 20th century. It argues that the continent deserves to be considered as a crucible for conceptualizing and contextualizing the ongoing influence of colonial policies, the emergence of specific integration and security cultures, the spread of cross-border regionalisation processes at the expense of region-building, the interplay between territory, space and trans-state networks, and the intrinsic ambivalence of global frontier narratives. This is emphasized through the identification of distinctive 'threads' of regionalism which, by focusing on genealogies, trajectories and ideals, transcend the binary divide between old and new regionalisms. In doing so, the book opens new perspectives not only on Africa in international relations, but also Africa’s own international relations. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of African politics, African history, regionalism, comparative regionalism, and more broadly to international political economy, international relations and global and regional governance.

Author : Chrysantus Ayangafac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114471092

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Political Economy of Regionalisation in Central Africa by Chrysantus Ayangafac Pdf

An interesting phenomenon in the global political economy is that regional mechanisms have come to be considered the best policy response to globalisation and weak state capacity. As such, Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been heralded as the building blocks of the African Peace and Security Architecture. However, while other regions of the continent have made laudable progress towards economic and political integration, Central Africa is facing a human security crisis and regional integration seems an unattainable chimera rather than a reality. Ironically, the region is well endowed with natural resources.

Author : Emeka C. Iloh,Ernest T. Aniche,Stephen N. Azom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781666930368

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African Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century by Emeka C. Iloh,Ernest T. Aniche,Stephen N. Azom Pdf

This book contributes to the debate concerning the future of the political economy of African development by addressing the important question of how African countries can strategically approach global political economy at multilateral, continental, and regional levels in view of North-South versus South-South configurations.

Author : Kobena T. Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317160533

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Contemporary Regional Development in Africa by Kobena T. Hanson Pdf

Contemporary Regional Development in Africa interrogates well-known concerns in the areas of regionalism and economic integration in contemporary Africa, while offering an added uniqueness by highlighting the capacity imperatives of the issues, and proposing critical policy guideposts. The volume juxtaposes a set of ’dynamic’ entanglements - new and micro-regionalism, informal cross-border trade, intra-African and African FDI plus cross-border investments, infrastructure development, science and technology, regional value-chains, conflict management and regional security - with fluid interpretations of regional development. The chapters provide snapshots of the several emerging and complex regionalisms and highlight a set of relevant and often overlapping analyses - drawing on authors’ nuanced and granular understanding of the African landscape. The varied, yet interlinked, nature of issues covered in this study make the book valuable and attractive to academics, researchers, policymakers and development practitioners.