1st Edition

Regional Developmentalism through Law Establishing an African Economic Community

By Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa Copyright 2018
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

Offering a study of regionalism in Africa and investigating the ways in which law can be used to address the issues raised by regional processes on the continent, this book examines the African Economic Community, considering that it has been entrusted to coordinate and to harmonize policies between various Regional Economic Communities (RECs) across the continent, thereby influencing the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Regionalism, Law and Development  3. Political Economy of Regionalism in Africa  4. Contextualising the concept of integration through law  5. The establishment of a Common Market within the European Community  6. Regional developmentalism through law within SADC, ECOWAS and EAC  7. The Issue of Harmonisation within the AU/AEC  8. Conclusion



Biography

Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at School of Law at SOAS, University of London and a Law Lecturer at Université Protestante au Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo.