The Political Economy Of Regionalism In Southern Africa

Author : Margaret Carol Lee
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781588262240
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southern Africa written by Margaret Carol Lee and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of increasing economic globalization, the countries of southern Africa have made commitments to enhanced regional development and the integration of their economies. Margaret Lee examines the challenges to regionalism in southern Africa, providing a critical assessment of the prospects for successful implementation. Lee's detailed study of the processes driving (or inhibiting) regional integration is firmly grounded in the history of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Her analysis of the evolution of the SADC regional economy, as well as its political, social, and economic contexts, is a major contribution to debates about the merits and pitfalls of regionalism and options for African integration.

Author : F. Söderbaum
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230513719
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism written by F. Söderbaum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.

Author : Fredrik Söderbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789187380549
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism in Southern Africa written by Fredrik Söderbaum and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wil Hout
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785364375
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Economy of African Regionalisms written by Wil Hout and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial; min-height: 11.0px} This book analyses the main factors influencing the political economy of Africa’s asymmetrical regionalism, focusing on regional and sub-regional trade, investment, movement of people, goods and services. It pays particular attention to the way in which regional and sub-regional dynamics are impacted by extra-regional relations, such with the EU, US, China and India. Because African regionalism is influenced not only by economic processes, peace and security are also analysed as important factors shaping both regional and sub-regional relations and dynamics.

Author : Edward D. Mansfield
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231106634
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism written by Edward D. Mansfield and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring regionalism from a political economic perspective, this text investigates why regional arrangements are formed, the conditions under which these arrangements solidify, and why they take on different institutional forms.

Author : Fredrik Söderbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351885014
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Regionalism in Africa written by Fredrik Söderbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume transcends conventional state-centric and formalistic notions of regionalism and theorizes, conceptualizes and analyzes the complexities and contradictions of regionalization processes in contemporary Africa. The collection not only unpacks and theorizes the African state-society complex with regard to new regionalism, but also explicitly integrates the often neglected discourse of human security and human development. In so doing, the book moves the discussion of new regionalism forward at the same time as it adds important insights to security and development. It is organized into three parts. Part I theorizes, conceptualizes and analyzes the new regionalism in Africa from the point of view of the region (e.g. West, East, Central and Southern Africa). The national perspectives in Part II focus on the new regionalism in Africa from the point of view of particular countries or specific state-society complexes, such as Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the enclave of Cabinda, Angola and Zambia. Part III contains two concluding chapters that tie the main threads of the volume together, theoretically and empirically, and discuss the contribution of the analytical framework, the new regionalism approach (NRA) to the larger study of regionalism.

Author : James J. Hentz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253217210
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation written by James J. Hentz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines South Africa's role in regional political economy since its transition to democracy.

Author : N. Poku
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333977920
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Regionalization and Security in Southern Africa written by N. Poku and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once torn by ideological conflicts and the dominance of command economies, Southern Africa is now moving towards economic liberalism and openness. In general, the ascendancy of 'market economics' is acknowledged by its governments, albeit with different degrees of enthusiasm. Theoretically rich and empirically engaging this timely book offers a critical insight into the ensuing debate on regionalism and the process of regionalization in southern Africa.

Author : S. K. Asante
Publisher : Praeger Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780275901943
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Regionalism in Africa written by S. K. Asante and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1985-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137586117
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Region-Building in Africa written by Daniel H. Levine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects. Leading scholars and practitioners come together to analyze a range of entwined topics, including: the theoretical underpinnings that have informed Africa's regional integration trajectory; the political economy of integration, including the sources of different 'waves' of integration in pan-Africanism and the reaction to neo-liberal economic pressures; the complexities of integration in a context of weak states and the informal regionalization that often occurs in 'borderlands'; the increasing salience of Africa's relationships with rising extra-regional economic powers, including China and India; and comparative lessons from non-African regional blocs, including the EU, ASEAN, and the Southern Common Market. A core argument of this book, running through all chapters, is that region-building must be recognized as a political project as much as if not more than an economic one; successful region-building in Africa will need to include the complex political tasks of strengthening state capacity (including states' capacity as 'developmental states' that can actively engage in economic planning), resolving long-standing conflicts over resources and political dominance, improving democratic governance, and developing trans-national political structures that are legitimate and inclusive.