African Borders Conflict Regional And Continental Integration

Author : Inocent Moyo,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429614873

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African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration by Inocent Moyo,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi Pdf

This book looks at the ways African borders impact war and conflict, as well as the ways continental integration could contribute towards cooperation, peace and well-being in Africa. African borders or borderlands can be a source of problems and opportunity. There is often a historical, geospatial and geopolitical architecture rooted in trajectories of war, conflict and instability, which could be transformed into those of peace, regional and continental integration and development. An example is the cross-border and regional response to the Boko Haram insurgency in West Africa. This book engages with cross-border forms of cooperation and opportunity in Africa. It considers initiatives and innovations which can be put in place or are already being employed on the ground, within the current regional and continental integration projects. Another important element is that of cross-border informality, which similarly provides a ready resource that, if properly harnessed and regulated, could unleash the development potential of African borders and borderlands. Students and scholars within Geography, International Relations and Border Studies will find this book useful. It will also benefit civil society practitioners, policymakers and activists in the NGO sector interested in issues such as migration, social cohesion, citizenship and local development.

Author : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030428907

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Borders, Mobility, Regional Integration and Development by Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo Pdf

This book examines social, economic and political issues in West, Eastern and Southern Africa in relation to borders, human mobility and regional integration. In the process, it highlights the innovative aspects of human agency on the African continent, and presents a range of empirical case studies that shed new light on Africa’s social, economic and political realities. Further, the book explores cooperation between African nation-states, including their historical socioeconomic interconnections and governance of transboundary natural resources. Moreover, the book examines the relationship between the spatial mobility of borders and development, and the migration regimes of nation-states that share contiguous borders in different geographic territories. Further topics include the coloniality of borders, sociocultural and ethnic relations, and the impact of physical borders on human mobility and wellbeing. Given its scope, the book represents a unique resource that offers readers a wealth of new insights into today’s Africa.

Author : Inocent Moyo,Jussi P. Laine,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000343908

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Intra-Africa Migrations by Inocent Moyo,Jussi P. Laine,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi Pdf

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent. It examines borders and securitisation of migration and the challenges and opportunities that arise out of reconfigured continental demographics. The book offers insights on intra-Africa migrations and highlights how intra-continental migration creates socio-economic and cultural borders. It explores how these borders, beyond the physical boundaries of states, including the Berlin Conference-constructed borders, create cultural divides, challenges for economic integration and cross-border security, and irregular migration patterns. While the movement of economic goods is valued for regional economic integration, the mobility of people is seen as a threat. This approach to migration contradicts the intentions of true integration and development, and triggers negative responses such as xenophobia that cannot be addressed by simply managing the physical border and allowing free movement. This book engages in a pivotal discussion of these issues, which are hitherto missing in African border studies, by demonstrating the ubiquity and overreaching influence of various kinds of borders on the African continent. With multidisciplinary contributions that provide an in-depth understanding of intra-Africa migrations and strategies for enhanced migration management, this book will be a useful resource for scholars and students studying geography, politics, security studies, development studies, African studies and sociology.

Author : Inocent Moyo,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Jussi P. Laine
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811524783

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Migration Conundrums, Regional Integration and Development by Inocent Moyo,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Jussi P. Laine Pdf

This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-à-vis migration. It analyses the African integration project that is being used to effectively manage migration within Africa and across its RECs, and harnessing it for development. The book presents debates related to the EU’s hardening and securitisation of its external border against migrants from Africa. It shows that migration actually challenges Africa-European relations, which is discussed as an important theme in this book. Authors in this book volume investigate several issues ranging from conundrums relating to migration between Africa and Europe to migration within Africa, but also in relation to borders and boundaries, its bearing on regional and continental integration and the significance of this in terms of relations between Africa and Europe. This book volume brings into conversation issues relating to the governance of migration for development, social cohesion and regional integration.

Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000921755

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Africa-EU Relations and the African Continental Free Trade Area by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka Pdf

This book explores relations between states in the Africa–European Union in view of the African Continental Free Trade Area, both at a regional level and as a series of informal processes of socioeconomic and political interactions between state and non-state actors. The book reconsiders the ways in which actors in the Africa–European Union relationship function, and what that means for regionalism, regionalisation and regional integration. In addition to formalised state-to-state and inter-regional interactions, the book examines the impact of socio-economic and political interactions with non-state actors, including those who engage with regional integration through formal and informal processes such as civil society activists, “African migration evangelists”, human smugglers and human traffickers. The book thus demonstrates that regional and inter-regional engagements include issues that extend beyond the usual discussions of trade. The book is authored from an African perspective and will be of interest to academics who specialise in International Relations, Political Economy, Political Sociology and African Studies. Policy makers and various actors in civil society and think tanks who have an academic inclination and deal with trade, migration and regionalism in Africa and Africa’s relations with Europe will also find the book beneficial.

Author : United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210552783

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Assessing Regional Integration in Africa V by United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Pdf

This publication comes at a time of renewed enthusiasm for shortening the period of the vision of the Abuja Treaty. The publication's overall objective is to provide analytical research that defines frameworks for African governments, the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities, towards accelerating the establishment of the African Common Market through: the speedy removal of all tariff and non-tariff barriers, obstacles to free movement of people, investments and factors of production in general across Africa, and through fast-tracking the creation of an African continental Free Trade Area.

Author : Samuel Kehinde Okunade,Olusola Ogunnubi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811950056

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ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa by Samuel Kehinde Okunade,Olusola Ogunnubi Pdf

This book discusses the phenomenon of regional integration in Africa and the ensuing discourse on the intercontinental free trade agreement within the continent. Long before the move for the facilitation of free trade in Africa, freedom of movement by Africans within Africa backed up by the AU Protocol on free movement of persons has been in existence and in one way or the other both moves are closely related. The book explores the existing relationships between the ECOWAS Protocol on free movement, goods and services and AfCFTA on one hand and the impact of the implementation and non-implementation of these policies on West Africa on the other hand.

Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030342968

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Pan Africanism, Regional Integration and Development in Africa by Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Pdf

This edited volume addresses the accomplishments, prospects and challenges of regional integration processes on the African continent. Since regional integration is a process that ebbs and flows according to a wide range of variables such as changing political and economic conditions, implications and factors derived from the vagaries of migration and climate change, it is crucial to be cognizant with how these variables impact regional integration initiatives. The contributors discuss the debates on Pan-Africanism and linking it with ongoing discourses and policies on regional integration in Africa. Other aspects of the book contain some of the most important topic issues such as migration, border management and the sustainable development goals. This content offers readers fresh and innovative perspectives on various aspects of sustainable development and regional growth in Africa.

Author : Yuichi Sasaoka,Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo,Sayoko Uesu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000542783

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Perspectives on the State Borders in Globalized Africa by Yuichi Sasaoka,Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo,Sayoko Uesu Pdf

Assessing the different kinds of borders between African nations, the contributors present a borderland and trans-region approach to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing the peoples of the African continent. Africa faces rampant violence, terrorism, deterioration of water-energy-food provision, influxes of refugees and immigrants, and religious hatred under the trends of globalization. Solutions for these issues require new perspectives that are not attempted by conventional state-building approaches. Statehood is limited in many places on the African continent because many states are combined by loose political ties. African states’ borders tend to be regarded as porous and fragile. However, as the contributors to this volume argue, those porous borders can contribute to cultural and socio-economic network construction beyond states and the creation of active borderlands by increasing people’s mobility, contact, and trade. A must read for scholars of African studies that will also be of great value to academics and students with a broader interest in nationhood, globalization, and borders.

Author : A. I. Asiwaju
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000092429152

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Boundaries and African Integration by A. I. Asiwaju Pdf

Author : Olutayo, Akinpelu O.,Adeniran, Adebusuyi I.
Publisher : CODESRIA
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9782869786325

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Regional Economic Communities by Olutayo, Akinpelu O.,Adeniran, Adebusuyi I. Pdf

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.

Author : Ernest Toochi Aniche,Ikenna Mike Alumona,Inocent Moyo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0367694115

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Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa by Ernest Toochi Aniche,Ikenna Mike Alumona,Inocent Moyo Pdf

Introduction: An Overview of African Regionalism, Security and Development / Ernest Toochi Aniche, Ikenna Mike Alumona and Inocent Mayo -- Conceptualising and Historicising African Regionalism in the Context of Pan-Africanism / Samuel Osagie Odobo -- Beyond Neo-Functionalism: Africa in Search of a New Theory of Regional Integration / Ernest Toochi Aniche -- Foreign Policy Initiatives and Pan-African Regionalism / Victor Chidubem Iwuoha -- Migration and Regional Integration in Africa: Some Critical Disjunctures / -- Inocent Moyo -- Towards a Single African Economic Space: Informal Cross-border trade and the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area / Christopher Changwe Nshimbi -- Regional Integration and Trade in the Central and West Africa: ECCAS and ECOWAS in Comparative Perspective / Emeka C. Iloh and Emmanuel C. Ojukwu -- European Union and African Union Internal Coordination and Crisis Management: Some Critical Reflections / Emmanuel de Groof -- African and Latin American Regionalism: Perspectives for Interregionalism and South-South Cooperation / Gladys Lechini and Carla Morasso -- Security Challenges and African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA) / -- Jude A. Momodu and Saheed Babajide Owonikoko -- Nationalism, Separatism, Conflicts and Pan-African Integration / Onyekachi Ernest Nnabuihe and Kayode George -- Insurgency, Terrorism, Militancy, and African Regionalism / Francis Chigozie Chilaka -- Political Succession and Regional Integration in Africa / Ikenna Mike Alumona -- The African Union and Its Expanding Role in Peace Keeping and Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era / Nicholas Idris Erameh -- Developmental Regionalism and Democratisation in Africa / Ashindorbe Kelvin & Kingsley Chigozie Udegbunam -- Developmental Regionalism Strategies and Gender in Africa: A Study of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) / Omokiniovo Harriet Efanodor-Obeten -- Multilateralism and Regional Trade Agreements: The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) / Stephen Nnaemeka Azom -- Globalisation and Modern African Regionalism / Victor Chibuike Obikaeze.

Author : Agyemang Attah-Poku
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761815961

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African Stability and Integration by Agyemang Attah-Poku Pdf

African Stability and Integration is a practical and meaningful analysis of the ways to bring Africans together in order to pursue growth and development on the continent of Africa. By combining vivid examination of past and contemporary uniting efforts of continental and diasporic Africans, Agyemang Attah-Poku stresses unity and its resultant stability as the most important goal for Africa to function as a constructive, harmonic society. Attah-Poku investigates the past activities and ideas of Pan-Africanism, relates Pan-Africanism to contemporary time, and makes suggestions, recommendations, and proposals for the immediate and future stability, growth, and development of Africa. A timely work, African Stability and Integration will be of great interest to students and professors of history, economics, politics, international relations, and cross-cultural studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:914643236

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Assessing Regional Integration in Africa V by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo,Jussi Laine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036762544X

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Borders, Sociocultural Encounters and Contestations by Christopher Changwe Nshimbi,Inocent Moyo,Jussi Laine Pdf

This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts.