Region-Building in Africa: Political and Economic Challenges

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Region-Building Debates in a Global Context....Pages 21-36
Regional Integration in Africa: Theory and Practice....Pages 37-52
A Tale of Three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raúl Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji....Pages 53-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Cross-Border Interactions and Regionalism....Pages 71-88
Infrastructure and Regional Integration in Africa....Pages 89-108
African Agency Post-2015: The Roles of Regional Powers and Developmental States in Regional Integration....Pages 109-126
The Political Economy of Africa’s Region-Building and Regional Integration....Pages 127-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
The African Union and Regional Integration in Africa....Pages 143-156
Region-Building in Southern Africa....Pages 157-174
Region-Building in Eastern Africa....Pages 175-190
COMESA and SADC: The Era of Convergence....Pages 191-212
Region-Building in West Africa....Pages 213-230
Region-Building in Central Africa....Pages 231-244
Region-Building in North Africa....Pages 245-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Necessary but Not Automatic: How Europe Learned to Integrate....Pages 267-282
Lessons from Asia: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations....Pages 283-296
Lessons from Latin America: MERCOSUR....Pages 297-312
Conclusion....Pages 313-324
Back Matter....Pages 325-348