ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement and the AfCFTA in West Africa Costs, Benefits and Challenges
“This timely book has demonstrated that no subjects are more important than those of movements and borders in regional integrative associations. With the careful selection of ECOWAS as a major case study, this impressive collection offers the leading insights on protocols, regulations, trade, and fi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore
Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: A Borderless region and the pursuit of Continental Free Trade Agreement in West Africa
- Part I: ECOWAS and AfCFTA in West Africa and Beyond
- CHAPTER 2: ECOWAS ‘Borderless Protocol’ and the AfCFTA: Blessing or Burden for Africa’s ‘Smiling Coast’?
- CHAPTER 3: Gendered Insecurity and Mobility in West African Borderlands: putting the Nigeria/Niger border in perspective
- CHAPTER 4: Nigeria-Benin Border Trade in the Context of the ECOWAS
- CHAPTER5: AfCFTA-ECOWAS Regional Integration Initiatives and EUFTA Migration Governance: The Undoing and Doing of Borders in West Africa
- Part II: ECOWAS Protocol and the AfCFTA: Understanding the Political-Economic and Security Dimensions
- CHAPTER 6: Border Closure in Nigeria: Implications for the AfCFTA and Communities on the Benin-Nigeria Corridor
- CHAPTER 7: West African Borderlands: Between ECOWAS Free Movement and EU Externalization Policy
- CHAPTER 8: Borderless Africa, Illegal Migration and Food Insecurity in West Africa
- CHAPTER 9: Integrating AFCFTA (African Continental Free Trade Area) into a Borderless ECOWAS Region: An evident Bluster, a Strategy or a Reality
- CHAPTER 10: ECOWAS Borderless Protocol, AfCFTA and Cross-Border Criminalities and (In)Security Challenges in West Africa
- Part III: Borderless West Africa and AfCFTA: Challenges and Opportunities for African Development
- Chapter 11: The ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons in Nigeria’s Borderlands, Challenges and Lessons for AfCFTA
- CHAPTER 12: African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement and Challenges of Borderlands in the ECOWAS Region