Promoting the African Union
Promoting the African Union

Author: Kassim Mohammed Khamis

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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The road to a union of African states has proved bumpy, and the leaders of the current African Union have called for a special meeting in 2009 to discuss how best to restructure. This book is designed as a resource for those wanting a history of African unity, its unusual problems, and a discussion of how best to address the challenges and those problems as it forges a closer and more workable unity.

Parliamentary Institutions in Regional and International Governance
Parliamentary Institutions in Regional and International Governance

Author: Andrea Cofelice

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 0429839022

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This volume offers an original and theoretically grounded conceptualization and measurement of international parliamentary institutions and their role in ensuring the accountability of regional international organizations. Through a comparative analysis of the establishment, evolution, institutional organization, oversight and policymaking functions of 22 parliamentary institutions, mainly from European, African and Latin American regional international organizations, the book serves a twofold purpose. First, it allows assessment of the extent to which parliamentary institutions have (measurable) influence on the outcome of regional organizations’ decision-making processes. Second, drawing on the literature on new institutionalism and comparative regionalism, the volume investigates the conditions under which the influence of parliamentary institutions is expected to grow, thus advancing the understanding of the variation and development of this poorly explored type of international institution. The book is aimed at scholars of global governance, international organization and comparative regionalism, and will also be of interest to parliamentarians and parliamentary practitioners from national and international institutions.

Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond
Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond

Author: Bruno Theodoro Luciano

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1000426904

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This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world. It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies – the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and the Mercosur Parliament for Latin America. Looking in particular at parliamentary agency, it aims to answer why and to what extent, these regional parliaments have developed differently in terms of their functions and legislative competences? Drawing on new and original empirical data, official documents, and secondary literature, the book focuses on the "critical junctures" in the trajectory of the three assemblies and argues that parliamentary agency has impacted the institutional development of the parliaments leading to diverse paths of regional parliamentarisation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of global and regional governance, comparative regionalism, European Union studies, legislative studies and more broadly to international relations, history, law, political economy, and international organisations.