The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU)
Title | The Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the European Union (EU) PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Muntschick |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2017-10-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319453300 |
This book explores regionalism in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and highlights the influence of the European Union (EU) as an extra-regional actor on the organization and integration process. The analysis is guided by theory and explains the emergence, institutional design and performance of SADC’s major integration projects in the issue areas of the economy, security and infrastructure. It provides in this way a profound assessment of the organization as a whole. The study shows that South Africa plays a regional key role as driver for integration while external influence of the EU is ambivalent in character because it unfolds a supportive or obstructive impact. The author argues that the EU gains influence over regional integration processes in the SADC on the basis of patterns of asymmetric interdependence and becomes a ‘game-changer’ insofar as it facilitates or impedes solutions to regional cooperation problems.
SADC-EU Trade Relations
Title | SADC-EU Trade Relations PDF eBook |
Author | SAPES Trust |
Publisher | Sarips of Sapes Trust Regional Office |
Total Pages | 116 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Southern African Development Community
Title | Southern African Development Community PDF eBook |
Author | Gottfried Wellmer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 2000* |
Genre | Africa, Southern |
ISBN | 9783934645011 |
SADC and the EU
Title | SADC and the EU PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Balch |
Publisher | Awepa/African-European Institute |
Total Pages | 110 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
The EU-SA Agreement
Title | The EU-SA Agreement PDF eBook |
Author | Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | European Economic Community |
ISBN |
Why Europe Intervenes in Africa
Title | Why Europe Intervenes in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Gegout |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190845163 |
Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response of European actors is generally inaction. This can be explained in several ways: the absence of strategic and economic interests, the unwillingness of European leaders to become involved in conflicts in former colonies of other European states, and sometimes the Eurocentric assumption that conflict in Africa is a normal event which does not require intervention. When European actors do decide to intervene, it is primarily for motives of security and prestige, and not primarily for economic or humanitarian reasons. The weight of past relations with Africa can also be a driver for European military intervention, but the impact of that past is changing. This book offers a theory of European intervention based mainly on realist and post-colonial approaches. It refutes the assumptions of liberals and constructivists who posit that states and organisations intervene primarily in order to respect the principle of the 'responsibility to protect'.
Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance
Title | Gender Equality Norms in Regional Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Anna van der Vleuten |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2014-06-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137301457 |
This book analyses the diffusion of norms concerning gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade between the EU, South America and Southern Africa. Norm diffusion is conceptualized as a truly multidirectional and polycentric process, shaped by regional governance and resulting in new geometries of transnational activism.