1st Edition

Regionalism, Security and Development in Africa

    306 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    306 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book charts the history and contemporary landscape of African regionalism, investigating how regional cooperation can be used to help to tackle security and development challenges in Africa.

    Africa has a long tradition of regional cooperation, with the oldest trade and monetary integration schemes in the developing world, but its colonial period and partition of have caused lasting damage that still be seen in today’s African economies. Contemporary post-colonial African regionalism, deeply rooted in notions of pan-Africanism, has served as a means of collective self-reliance and economic transformation and development. This book starts with the history and theory behind African regionalism before discussing and comparing regional organisations such as the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC).  Finally, the book considers how regional integration and cooperation can help to address security and development challenges.

    This ambitious and broad-ranging book will be a valuable resource for researchers working on African regionalism, security, African integration and development, and comparative regionalism. Policymakers should also consider it a useful guide to the background and contemporary landscape of African regionalism.

    Contributor biographies

    Introduction: An Overview of African Regionalism, Security and Development

    Ernest Toochi Aniche, Ikenna Mike Alumona and Inocent Moyo

    PART I: HISTORY AND THEORY OF AFRICAN REGIONALISM

    1. Conceptualising and Historicising African Regionalism in the Context of Pan-Africanism
    2. Samuel Osagie Odobo

    3. Beyond Neo-Functionalism: Africa in Search of a New Theory of Regional Integration
    4. Ernest Toochi Aniche

    5. Foreign Policy Initiatives and Pan-African Regionalism
    6. Victor Chidubem Iwuoha

    7. Migration and Regional Integration in Africa: Some Critical Disjunctures
    8. Inocent Moyo

      PART II: AFRICA’S COMPARATIVE REGIONALISM

    9. Towards a Single African Economic Space: Informal Cross-border trade and the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area
    10. Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

    11. Regional Integration and Trade in the Central and West Africa: ECCAS and ECOWAS in Comparative Perspective
    12. Emeka C. Iloh and Emmanuel C. Ojukwu

    13. European Union and African Union Internal Coordination and Crisis Management: Some Critical Reflections
    14. Emmanuel de Groof

    15. African and Latin American Regionalism: Perspectives for Interregionalism and South-South Cooperation
    16. Gladys Lechini and Carla Morasso

       

      PART III: REGIONALISM AND SECURITY IN AFRICA

    17. Security Challenges and African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA)
    18. Jude A. Momodu and Saheed Babajide Owonikoko

    19. Nationalism, Separatism, Conflicts and Pan-African Integration
    20. Onyekachi Ernest Nnabuihe and Kayode George

    21. Insurgency, Terrorism, Militancy, and African Regionalism
    22. Francis Chigozie Chilaka

    23. Political Succession and Regional Integration in Africa
    24. Ikenna Mike Alumona

    25. The African Union and Its Expanding Role in Peace Keeping and Conflict Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era
    26. Nicholas Idris Erameh

      PART IV: AFRICAN INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

    27. Developmental Regionalism and Democratisation in Africa
    28. Ashindorbe Kelvin & Kingsley Chigozie Udegbunam

    29. Developmental Regionalism Strategies and Gender in Africa: A Study of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
    30. Omokiniovo Harriet Efanodor-Obeten

    31. Multilateralism and Regional Trade Agreements: The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
    32. Stephen Nnaemeka Azom

    33. Globalisation and Modern African Regionalism

    Victor Chibuike Obikaeze

    Index

     

     

     

    Biography

    Ernest Toochi Aniche is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Federal University Otuoke (FUO), Nigeria.

    Ikenna Mike Alumona  is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Nigeria.

    Inocent Moyo is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa.