Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook

Monitoring Regional Integration in Southern Africa Yearbook

Author: Dirk Hansohm

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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Regional integration is widely regarded as vital to speed up economic development in the Southern African region. This book bases on the belief that the process of intergration can be strengthened by confronting the rhetoric of policy makers with the empirical reality on the ground.


Governing Regional Integration for Development

Governing Regional Integration for Development

Author: Antoni Estevadeordal

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1317125592

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Developing countries have joined the rapidly growing global system of regional trade agreements (RTAs) over the past years. The drive towards regional integration has advanced with the formation of new markets and groups in Latin America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Oceania with few developing countries remaining outside these regional schemes. This volume looks at how 'getting governance right' is a central element for successful RTA implementation, taking stock of the quality and effectiveness of the monitoring of development country RTAs around the world. Organized by the main world regions and primarily focusing on developing country RTAs, the book also includes two case studies focused on monitoring in developed country regional agreements by way of comparison. The contributors operationalize governance in the context of RTA implementation with a more narrow and technical term of 'monitoring' and provide eight important lessons for assessing monitoring around the world.


Regional Integration in the Global South

Regional Integration in the Global South

Author: Sebastian Krapohl

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-23

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3319388959

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This book presents a theory of economic integration in developing regions, where the level of intraregional economic interdependence is low and the dependence on extra-regional economic relations is high. It argues that the success or failure of regional integration in the Global South is to a large degree dependent on the reaction of extra-regional actors in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates that longstanding European integration theories cannot be successfully applied to other world regions, where economic conditions are fundamentally different. By providing detailed empirical analyses that are systematic in their use of a common theoretical and methodological framework the authors fill a significant lacuna in our understanding of these issues. This edited volume will appeal to students and scholars of comparative regionalism, area studies and global governance.


Comparative Regional Integration

Comparative Regional Integration

Author: Carlos Closa

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1107578582

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Groundbreaking comparative analysis of governance systems and institutional choices in different regional and international organizations.


Indicator-Based Monitoring of Regional Economic Integration

Indicator-Based Monitoring of Regional Economic Integration

Author: Philippe De Lombaerde

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-02

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 3319508601

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This volume brings together experts from different world regions. It presents various experiences with building indicator systems for monitoring the implementation of regional economic integration policies such as preferential trade areas, common markets or economic and monetary unions. The volume discusses both the technical and governance aspects of such systems, and best practices. The regional experiences that are covered include: the European Union, Eurasia, ASEAN, the East African Community (EAC), COMESA, CARICOM, the African-Caribbean-Pacific Group, and the Americas. In addition, various chapters discuss cross-cutting methodological challenges related to trade-related indicators.


North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes

North-South Regional Trade Agreements as Legal Regimes

Author: Clair Gammage

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2017-05-26

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1784719625

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This book offers a critical reflection of the North-South regional trade agreements (RTAs), known as the Economic Partnership Agreements, negotiated between the EU and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Conceiving of regions as legal regimes, Clair Gammage highlights the challenges facing developing countries when negotiating RTAs with developed countries and interrogates the assumption that these agreements will and can promote sustainable development through trade.


Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa

Regional Economic Communities and Integration in Southern Africa

Author: Leon Mwamba Tshimpaka

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-07

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9811593884

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This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It argues that the SADC’s pursuit of a rationalist and state-centric form of integration for Southern Africa is limited, as it overlooks the contributory role and efficacy of non-state actors, who are relegated to the periphery. The book demonstrates that civil society networks in Southern Africa constitute well-governed, self-organised entities that function just like formal regional arrangements driven by state actors and technocrats. The book amplifies this point by deploying New Institutionalism and the New Regionalism Approach to examine the role and efficacy of non-state actors in building regions from below. The book develops a unique typology that shows how Southern African regional civil society networks adopt strategies, norms and rules to establish an efficient form of alternative integration in the region. Based on a critical analysis of this self-organised regionalism, the book projects the reality that alternative regionalism driven by non-state actors is possible. This book expands the study of regionalism in the SADC, and makes a significant and innovative contribution to the study of contemporary regionalism.