Finances of Regional Organisations in the Global South

Ulf Engel is a professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. He is also visiting professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and a professor extraordinary at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.Frank Mattheis is a researcher at the Institut d’études européennes (IEE), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and an associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

"To understand how regional organisations work, we need insight into their financing. Money matters in organisations, and the authors in this volume help us navigate the politics of budgets in regional integration projects. Particularly in the global South, when capacity is often weak, financing structures can tell us a lot about power and priorities in regional organisations. This fine volume offers both theory and empirical cases that shine a light on the realities of regional cooperation in the developing world." - Julia Gray, University of Pennsylvania, USA."With its welcome emphasis on non-Western international organizations, The Finances of Regional Organisations in the Global South addresses an important empirical lacunae in the burgeoning literature on IO financing. The comparative analysis of regional organisations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America provides impressive breadth and sheds new light not only on how funding at these organisations works, but also on how they compare to their more familiar global counterparts." - Erin R. Graham, Drexel University, USA.

• Foreword 1. The Finances of Regional Organisations in the South: Challenges of studying a neglected facet of regionalism Part I: Africa 2. The Finances of the African Union (AU) 3. The Finances of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) 4. The Finances of the East African Community (EAC) 5. The Finances of the International Conference on Great Lakes Region (ICGLC) 6. The Finances of the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) 7. The Finances of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 8. Mapping and Problematising External Funding to the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities 9. Modernising the Partnership between Donors and Regional Organisations in Africa: The case of the African Union Commission Part II: The Arab World, Latin America and Asia 10. The Finances of the League of Arab States (LAS) 11. The Finances of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) 12. The Finances of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) 13. The Finances of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 14. The Finances of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 15. The Finances of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) 16. The Finances of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) 17. Towards a New Typology of Regionalism: A comparative approach to the finances of regional organisations