African Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes

ISBN-13: 9780521769839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 491 str.

James Thuo Gathii

Opis

Gathii authoritatively analyzes and evaluates the growing importance of regional trade integration in Africa and exposes its successes and failures.

Recenzje

'James Gathii has written a pioneering work that will serve as a valuable tool for practitioners and students of international law and international relations, development economics, and African politics.' African Affairs

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. African RTAs as flexible legal regimes; 2. Variable geometry: a defining aspect of African RTAs; 3. Multiple memberships in African RTAs; 4. African RTAs in the context of Article XXIV of GATT; 5. Trade liberalization commitments and realization timeframes; 6. Financing African RTAs; 7. African RTA judiciaries; 8. Trade remedy regimes; 9. Monetary unions in Africa; 10. Intra-African regional trade integration; 11. African RTA relations with non-African RTAs.