This book presents a full and expert overview of the history, policies and institutional framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), examining regionalism and the external influence of the European Union. The SADC, an ambitious cooperation project in a number of different policy areas, is a case study on how successful regionalism can be as a strategy for political security and economic prosperity, based on the successful example of the European integration process. The author examines the situation structural model as an analytical tool to explain regionalism and...
This book presents a full and expert overview of the history, policies and institutional framework of the Southern African Development Community (S...
This volume offers systematic research on regionalism in Africa and explores the role and impact of external partners on the dynamics, institutional design, and performance of regional integration projects. It acknowledges and elaborates the multilevel and multidimensional nature of regionalism, with its variety of cooperative institutions and policy areas, while closely considering uneven relationships to external actors in African regional organizations. The book’s two comprehensive mapping studies examine patterns of asymmetric inter-dependence between regionalism in Africa and external...
This volume offers systematic research on regionalism in Africa and explores the role and impact of external partners on the dynamics, institutional d...