The New Regionalism In Africa
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Author |
: Fredrik Söderbaum |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2017-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351885010 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351885014 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Regionalism in Africa by : Fredrik Söderbaum
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 |
: Daniel C Bach |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2015-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317557210 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317557212 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regionalism in Africa by : Daniel C Bach
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 |
: Kobena T. Hanson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2016-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317160540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317160541 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Regional Development in Africa by : Kobena T. Hanson
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.
Author |
: Ulf Engel |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2016-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315513751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315513757 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Politics of Regionalism by : Ulf Engel
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 |
: Ernest Toochi Aniche |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2021-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000390544 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000390543 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa by : Ernest Toochi Aniche
This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa. Africa has a long tradition of regional cooperation, with the oldest trade and monetary integration schemes in the developing world, but its colonial period and partition of have caused lasting damage that still be seen in today’s African economies. Contemporary post-colonial African regionalism, deeply rooted in notions of pan-Africanism, has served as a means of collective self-reliance and economic transformation and development. This book starts with the history and theory behind African regionalism before discussing and comparing regional organisations such as the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC). Finally, the book considers how regional integration and cooperation can help to address security and development challenges. This ambitious and broad-ranging book will be a valuable resource for researchers working on African regionalism, security, African integration and development, and comparative regionalism. Policymakers should also consider it a useful guide to the background and contemporary landscape of African regionalism.
Author |
: F. Söderbaum |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2004-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230513716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230513719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Economy of Regionalism by : F. Söderbaum
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 |
: Osvaldo Sunkel |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2016-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349272686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 134927268X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalism and the New Regionalism by : Osvaldo Sunkel
This is the first of five volumes reporting on the UNU-WIDER study on New Regionalism. It deals with the conceptions and meanings of two processes which probably will have a crucial influence on the shape of the 'new world order' - globalization and regionalization. These studies relate to each other as challenge to response, globalization being the challenge of economic and cultural homogenization of the world and regionalization being a social and political reaction. The leading writers in the field contribute thought-provoking and fascinating articles to this volume.
Author |
: Ulf Engel |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: 2016-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781315513768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1315513765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Politics of Regionalism by : Ulf Engel
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 |
: F. Söderbaum |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 271 |
Release |
: 2003-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781403938794 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1403938792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theories of New Regionalism by : F. Söderbaum
Theories of New Regionalism represents the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories of new regionalism. Major theorists from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives, spanning new regionalism & world order approaches along with regional governance, liberal institutionalism & neoclassical development regionalism, to regional security complex theory (RSCT) and the region-building approach.
Author |
: Helmut Asche |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2021-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030753665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030753662 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regional Integration, Trade and Industry in Africa by : Helmut Asche
This book examines the past, present and prospects of regional economic integration in Africa. The empirical analysis ranges from unions formed during the years following independence, to the proposed African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which aims to remove trade barriers between all 55 African states. In addition, the book explores to what extent Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have advanced in accordance with a linear integration model of goods, labor and capital markets. The book subsequently evaluates the suitability of the European model of deep integration with costly institutions for the conditions specific to Africa, considering, for example, the role of informal and non-recorded trade. Stylized cases of regional division of labour with increasing returns and imperfect competition are introduced to support the economic integration logic. Past and current economic policies in Africa are scrutinized to answer the question: how can African regions best foster new manufacturing industries and value chains across the continent? In conclusion, the book outlines content and processes of Common Industrial Policy in the African regions. The book also addresses the controversial issue of international trade agreements between developing countries and the European Union or the USA and investigates whether these agreements impede or promote economic development in Africa. The book includes a detailed roadmap describing how to improve key clauses of agreements for economic partnership in the interest of African countries. In closing, it outlines a new vision of joint sustainable development for Africa and Europe.