Politics and Pan-Africanism: Diplomacy, Regional Economies and Peace-Building in Contemporary Africa

✍ Scribed by Dawn Nagar

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering an examination of the diplomatic and economic regional power structures in Africa and their relationships with each other, Dawn Nagar discusses the potential and future of pan-Africanism. The three primary regional economic communities (RECs) that are recognised by the African Union as the key building blocks of a united Africa are examined – these are the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). These include Africa’s major economies – Egypt, South Africa, and Kenya but are also home to Africa’s most conflict prone and volatile states – the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Burundi, South Sudan, Somalia and Lesotho. Providing a detailed overview of the current relationship between these power blocs, this book provides insight into the current state of diplomatic and economic relations within Africa and shows how far there is to go for a future of Pan-Africanism.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Acknowledgements
Key Abbreviations and Acronyms
1 Introduction
2 The evolution of Pan-Africanism
Assumptions of new theories and definitions
Situating Pan-Africanism within the divergence and convergence debates of regional integration
The second wave of Pan-Africanism towards modernity
The third wave of Pan-Africanism from modernity to dependency
Neoclassical economics: Divergence and convergence
Market-driven trade liberalisation and economic growth
Pan-Africanism: Free trade agreements and intraregional trade: Divergence and convergence
Macroeconomic policies: Divergence and convergence
Multiple memberships: Divergence and convergence
Neoclassical realism approach: Security
3 Pan-Africanism’s birth, burial – reincarnate
The birth and death of a Pan-African idea
Pan-Africanism reincarnate
The convergence of regions
The Frontline States and the making of an alliance
Political and economic courtship – policy of détente
The Frontline States and external actors
The formation of SADCC: A European agenda
SADC’s institutional architecture
Funding SADCC and SADC
The formation of the PTA and the incorporation of EAC member states
COMESA’s institutional architecture: Economic regional convergence
Rationalisation period of 1993 and 1994 of SADCC and PTA: A failed convergence
4 The era of convergence
The period 1998–2008: Convergence of a Tripartite Agreement
States, markets and developmental integration: 1998–2008, divergence or convergence
COMESA, EAC and SADC’s diplomatic efforts of the main summits and meetings: The period 1998–2008
Diplomatic efforts: A move towards establishing the COMESA, EAC and SADC Tripartite free trade area
Progress of the Tripartite MOU towards convergence
The Tripartite merger and progress of the free trade area roadmap
Efforts towards the establishment of a Tripartite free trade area
Regional transport master plan
Concluding remarks
5 Convergence and consolidation of multiple memberships: An attempted convergence
Management of multiple memberships
Variable geometry and the Tripartite bloc
Rules of origin and external trade agreements: AGOA and EPAs
Regional arrangements in multiple memberships: Hindrance or promotion?
Management of multiple memberships by member states: The case of South Africa in SACU
Concluding remarks
6 Pan-African economic integration
Intraregional trade: An agricultural comparative advantage
Information and technology systems control: Achieving value addition
Comparative advantage and economic growth for Africa’s geostrategic economic convergence with the Caribbean and Pacific
Blue economy: The Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Bloc
7 Pan-African security convergence: The evolution of collective security
Africa’s attempts of achieving collective security
Regional security complex framework: Evolving domestic actors and factors
Towards Pan-African security convergence
Concluding remarks
8 Analysis and normative proposals
Rules of origin
Total factor productivity
Protecting Tripartite member states’ industries is much more than just variable geometry, free trade and the principle of acqui
Multiple memberships
Infrastructure gaps
Security convergence
9 Conclusion
Notes
1 Introduction: Pan-African integration
2 The evolution of Pan-Africanism: Regional integration theories and approaches
3 Pan-Africanism’s birth, burial – reincarnate: A historical trajectory of divergence and convergence
4 The era of convergence: COMESA, EAC and SADC
5 Convergence and consolidation of multiple memberships: An attempted convergence
6 Pan-African economic integration
7 Pan-African security convergence: The evolution of collective security
8 Analysis and normative proposals: Pan-African convergence theories
9 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index