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Regionalisation in Africa

Regionalisation in Africa

Integration and Disintegration
Edited by Daniel Bach
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Publication date: 10/1/1999
Format: paper 0 pages
ISBN: 978-0-253-21340-2
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" . . . by including accounts of the flows of goods and people that take place informally, and frequently illegally, [Bach] has lifted the lid on a little-observed, but vitally important aspect of contemporary African life." —International Affairs

The dynamics of integration and disintegration in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the millennium result from a combination of upheavals in the international system since the end of the Cold War and the crisis of the state within Africa itself.

Author Bio

Daniel Bach, former director of the Centre de’Etude d’Afrique Noire in Bordeaux, is an internationally recognized authority on African political and economic regional systems.

Reviews

"2000apr CHOICE. Written primarily by academics and researchers in Europe, Africa, and the US, this 19—chapter volume is an updated and revised version of a work originally published in French in 1998. Chapters in parts 1 and 2 are more general explorations of multilateralism, regionalism, and states in Africa. Changes in society and democratization in recent years are examined, along with the specific situations in Congo/Zaire, Nigeria, and the Union of South Africa. Several articles in part 3 discuss the experiences of a few of the numerous regional organizations in Africa such as ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) and UDEAC (Union Douaniere des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale). A discussion of the impact of European monetary integration on the franc zone shows how outside actions can affect African nations. While much attention is on formal groupings, personal networks and cross—border trade are also examined in the last part of the book. The writing is somewhat uneven but there is little overlap among the articles, and many contain useful, specific information on the topic. Footnotes in the articles as well as a bibliography. For students and scholars of African economic and political affairs. Upper—division undergraduate through professional collections. —J. E. Weaver, Drake University" —

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Regionalism and Globalization

1. Regionalism and Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Reversal of a Paradigm - Daniel Bach
2. Multilateralism and Regionalism in International Economic Relations- Alice Landau
3. African Regional Economic Integration and the European Union - Walter Kennes

Part 2: States and Territories

4. The Crisis of the State and Communalism: The New Ideological Stakes in African Integration - Dominique Darbon
5. Frontiers and States in the New African Order - Christopher Clapham
6. Paradoxes and Ambiguities of Democratization - Abdoulaye Niandou Souley
7. Is African Civil Society Civilized? - Celestin Monga
8. The Collapse of the Zairean State and Its Regional Impact - Edouard Bustin
9. Integration and Disintegration in the Nigerian Federation - Rotimi Suberu
10. Territoriality and Institutional Change in the New South Africa - Simon Bekker

Part 3: Regional Organizations

11. Integration in ECOWAS: Successes and Difficulties - Olatunde B. J. Ojo
12. Failing Institutions and Shattered Spaces: What Regional Integration in Central Africa? - Marc-Louis Ropivia
13. The Renovation of UDEAC: Sense and Nonsense in Central African Integration - Roland Pourtier
14. The Franc Zone and European Monetary Union - Michel Lelart
15. The Rival Strategies of SADC and COMESA in Southern AFrica - Peter Takirambudde
16. SACU and the Rand Zone - Colin McCarthy

Part 4: Networks

17. Rents and Frontiers: The Case of the Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire Frontier - Bruno Stary
18. Personal Networks and Trans-Frontier Trade: Zairean and Congolese Migrants - Janet McGaffey & Remy Bazenguissa
19. Illegal Trade and Drug Trafficking - Alain Labrousse