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Region-Building in Africa - Political and Economic Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Region-Building in Africa - Political and Economic Challenges (Hardcover, 1st ed. 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.
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