Regionalisation in Africa: Integration and Disintegration

Abstract

Part 1 Regionalism and globalization in sub-Saharan Africa: revisiting a paradigm, Daniel Bach multilateralism and regionalism in international economic relations, Alice Landau African regional economic integration and the European Union, Walter Kennes. Part 2 States and territories: crisis of the state and communalism - new ideological stakes in African integration, Dominique Darbon boundaries and states in the new African order, Christopher Clapham paradoxes and ambiguities of democratization, Abdoulaye Niandou Souley is African civil society civilized?, Celestin Monga the collapse of Congo/Zaire and its regional impact, Edouard Bustin integration and disintegration in the Nigerian Federation, Rotimi Suberu territoriality and institutional change in the New South Africa, Simon Bekker. Part 3 Regional organizations: integration in ECOWAS - successes and difficulties, Olatunde B.J. Ojo failing institutions and shattered spaces - what regional integration in Central Africa?, Marc-Louis Ropivia the renovation of UDEAC - sense and nonsense in Central African integration, Michel Lelart the rival strategies of SADC and COMESA in Southern Africa, Peter Takirambudde SACU and the Rand zone, Colin McCarthy. Part 4 Networks: cross-border trade in West Africa - the Gahan-Cote d'Ivoire frontier, Bruno Stary personal networks and trans-frontier trade - Zairean and Congolese migrants, Janet MacGaffey and Remy Bazenguissa the production and distribution of illicit drugs, Alain Labrousse.