Region-Building in Africa

1. Introduction
Daniel H. Levine, Dawn Nagar

Part I. Themes and Concepts of Region-Building and Regional Integration in Africa

2. Region-Building Debates in a Global Context
Louise Fawcett

3. Regional Integration in Africa: Theory and Practice
John Ravenhill

4. A Tale of Three Cassandras: Jean Monnet, Raúl Prebisch, and Adebayo Adedeji
Adekeye Adebajo

Part II. The Political Economy of Africa’s Region-Building and Regional Integration Initiatives

5. Cross-Border Interactions and Regionalism
Daniel C. Bach

6. Infrastructure and Regional Integration in Africa
Afeikhena Jerome, David Nabena

7. African Agency Post-2015: The Roles of Regional Powers and Developmental States in Regional Integration
Timothy M. Shaw

8. The Political Economy of Africa’s Region-Building and Regional Integration
Samuel K. B. Asante

Part III. The African Union (AU) and Subregional Organizations and Initiatives

9. The African Union and Regional Integration in Africa
Kasaija Phillip Apuuli

10. Region-Building in Southern Africa
Scott Taylor

11. Region-Building in Eastern Africa
Gilbert M. Khadiagala

12. COMESA and SADC: The Era of Convergence
Dawn Nagar

13. Region-Building in West Africa
Said Adejumobi

14. Region-Building in Central Africa
René Lemarchand

15. Region-Building in North Africa
Azzedine Layachi

Part IV. Comparative Regional Schemes: Lessons for Africa

16. Necessary but Not Automatic: How Europe Learned to Integrate
N. Piers Ludlow

17. Lessons from Asia: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Mely Caballero-Anthony

18. Lessons from Latin America: MERCOSUR
Laura Gómez-Mera

19. Conclusion
Daniel H. Levine

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, African Politics, Regional/Spatial Science, Development Theory, Political Economy, Development Economics