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Présentation
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Regional integration in Africa started with a dream and took shape through institutions and projects aimed at ensuring shared prosperity. The dream, that of African unity, was the main topic of a groundbreaking international gathering, the first Pan-African Conference in 1900. One of the key participants to that conference, W.E.B. Du Bois, lived to see the dream of African unity evolve to fully-fledged institution, the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in May 1963.
Regional integration is both political and economic. It is a tool to institutionalize continental unity and maximize the interests of all member countries through increased trade.
We will study the main political and economic theories of regional integration, the institutions driving African regional integration and four regional economic communities in Eastern, Southern, Central and Western Africa.
SYLLABUS:
• 01_PAN-AFRICANISM -- THE ROAD TO THE OAU
• 02_ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL THEORIES OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION
• 03_REGIONAL PUBLIC GOODS
• 04_THE PROVISION OF REGIONAL PUBLIC GOODS IN AFRICA THROUGH CROSS BORDER INITIATIVES
• 05_REGIONAL ECONOMIC COMMUNITIES: EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY | ECOWAS | SADC | CCAS
• 06_ THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA AND THE COMMON MARKET FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA
• 07_GROUP PRESENTATIONS
• 08_GROUP PRESENTATIONS
° 09_ REVIEW SESSION
READING LIST
01_PANAFRICANISM AND THE ROAD TO THE OAU
AYITTEY, G. (2010). The United States of Africa: A Revisit. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 632, 86-102. Retrieved August 4, 2020
Guy Martin "Dream of Unity: From the United States of Africa to the Federation of African States"
January 2013 - African and Asian Studies 12(3):169-188
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02_ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL THEORIES OF REGIONAL INTEGRATION
Christian Peters-Berries, Regional integration in southern Africa - A guidebook (2010) pp. 29-36
Thomas M. Dunn, (2012), Neo-functionalism and the European Union, https://www.e-ir.info/2012/11/28/neo-functionalism-and-the-european-union/
Victor A.O. Adutela, (2014) "Regional integration and the quest for peace and stability in Africa"
03_ MANAGING REGIONAL PUBLIC GOODS IN AFRICA (1)
"Regional Public Goods: promoting regional solutions for regional problems" (2007) by Kea Wollrad
“Regional Public Goods in Official Development Assistance” (2001) Marco Ferroni, pp. 6-17
Transboundary Water Management as a Regional Public Good: Financing development – an example from the Nile Basin - (2007) SIDA