Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa Networks of Civil Society Organizations and Alternative Regionalism

This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy...

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Main Authors: Tshimpaka, Leon Mwamba, Nshimbi, Christopher Changwe (Author), Moyo, Inocent (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Historical background and conventional approaches to regional integration: Africa and the SADC
  • Chapter 3. New Institutionalism and the New Regionalism Approach to regional integration
  • Chapter 4. Informal – formal interface: Southern African civil society networks versus SADC and official regulatory regimes
  • Chapter 5. Alternative and people-centred approaches to regional integration
  • Chapter 6. Typology of institutional arrangements of southern African civil society networks
  • Chapter 7: Towards a people-centred approach to regional integration