Towards Pan-Africanism Africa’s Cooperation through Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Ubuntu and Communitarianism

This book traces the development and impact of regional economic communities (RECs) in Africa and addresses a timely question: do REC members, and the REC itself, positively influence member states’ behaviors towards other members and more broadly, regionally and continentally due to REC membership?...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magu, Stephen M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction – Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs)
  • Chapter 2: Locating Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs) in IR Scholarship
  • Chapter 3: New Paradigm: Communitarian, Humanist African Theory of Regional Integration
  • Chapter 4: East African Community II: Second Time the Charm?
  • Chapter 5: Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  • Chapter 6: Southern African Development Community (SADC)
  • Chapter 7: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa – COMESA
  • Chapter 8: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
  • Chapter 9: Community of Sahel–Saharan States (CEN-SAD): All Our Northern Brethren
  • Chapter 10: Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS): Tropical Heat, Troubled Middle
  • Chapter 11: Arab Maghreb Union (AMU): (In or Mostly) Out of Africa and Tumultuous Inertia
  • Chapter 12: Africa’s RECS – Promise and Peril, Pandemic Slips and Possible Futures